SEOMOZNSTER.COM was a fit title to this article. SEOmoz took a giant leap into becoming Monster.com of the SEO industry by creating a job board called “SEOmoz SEO Services Marketplace”. The search and posting features are for free to registered users. The goal of this move is to define themselves to be the hub and meeting place of all SEOs. This move definitely will be a blow to paid job board services of SEMPO (which requires membership to post) and also to paid services of Stuntdubl and Marketing Pilgrim and the currently free (soon to be paid) job board of SEOBook that also recently came online beginning of November.

This move was a brilliant move by Rand and Co. who are trying to become the center of the SEO Universe. Their recent influx of money through Venture Capital was the right step that allows them to create cornerpieces of their SEO resource empire which began with a great blog, premium membership for SEO tips and tools, and now even the job center.

Here are the only weaknesses, I have found with the Marketplace. Having an SEOmoz recommended list is a turn off for most independent SEOs who dont mingle with SEOmoz crowd in the A-list and probably just as good as the recommended sites (if not social).

The other issue is that most listed companies claim to be doing a service for everything that is listed. How about limiting the selections of services to 5 as if to say we do these five things best rather than I am a single consultant/company doing all categories great which simply is not possible.

Beyond that, I think SEO world just saw the birth of a true SEO giant. Rand already has received a lot of fire from many members of the SEO community including some of the top SEOs, even though he is known to be the friendliest and most helpful guy in the SEO circles, for simply publicizing too many magician tricks. As SEOs carry their love/hate relationship with their breadmaker/nemesis Google, I wonder if the same will apply to the other end of the spectrum which is turning out to be SEOmoz.