Job board SEO tips and tactics to rank higher in Google.
Most job board software that is available today is very good at SEO out of the box. When it comes to the best ones to choose its hard to go wrong with Smart Job Board, Jobboard.io, NiceBoard just to name a few. These platforms are already designed with Google for Jobs in mind. They have…
SEO is a bit of a lost art today among new job board owners. They understand little about how it works and how long it takes to rank for keywords. I hope to shed some light on it in this member only post. To me job board SEO comes down to mainly 4 activities: On…
If you are looking for easy content to create for your niche job board that is also good for SEO, consider writing your own job descriptions. Why? Because recruiters are always searching for templates to use when writing their own job descriptions. Take a page from Indeed’s SEO play book. If you search for “director…
In the past few weeks I noticed a new referral item in my Google Analytics on two of my job boards. If you navigate to Acquisition > All Traffic > Source/Medium you may find the following entry; jobs_on_facebook / organic This new entry coincides with a Facebook bot I spotted on the stats for RecruitingHRjobs.com…
Last week Google sent out emails reminding job site owners to make sure their remote jobs are classified properly in their data schema. It only applies to the USA and UK at this point however. Here’s what it said. Search Console Promote work-from-home jobs on… Given the recent COVID-19 impact on businesses and employment, Google…
So want to boost your SEO in a hurry? Consider buying an “aged domain” and redirecting it to your site. Flippa has a big list of job domains for sale. This link or ones on Sedo shows a variety of domains available that have been online before. Never buy new domains and redirect them unless…
If you track your site in the Google Search Console (and you should be) they have added a checkbox to see the number of impressions your jobs are getting. Just click the Job Postings link on the left nav to access, then check off the impressions box to see the data. I was speaking to a…
Good news if you care about SEO. Jobboard.io has added the ability to create custom urls for content pages on their platform. This is a must have if you are moving your old site to them so you can preserve your high performing SEO pages. By recreating the content on the same url structure your…
Buy a high-authority 10-50 DA (domain authority) website off of Sedo.com, Godaddy auctions or Flippa. What? How is it possible you ask? 1. Buy an expired, dropped domain with 10-50 DA. It turns out there are a lot of them expiring every day! Here’s a cool free online tool to show you powerful domains that…
Last week Google introduced a new way for job publishers to submit their job feed. Currently you just have to submit a sitemap file to tell them what to crawl. But this new update includes an API that allows for “realtime” submissions so that they can better track when jobs come on your site or…