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…
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Custom URLs added to Jobboard.io
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…
SEO Hack for Job Boards (member only)
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New Update to Google Jobs
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…
How Much Monthly Google Traffic Can You Get?
Now that Google Jobs has been up and running for about a year I thought I would share some stats around how much traffic it actually generates on a monthly basis. Below is a screenshot of Analytics from a small board I run called Jobs With Remote. It has about 800-900 jobs on it at…
How to ask for backlinks
If you are looking to get more backlinks to your site one of the things you should be doing is asking for them. I frequently get pitched via email and thought I would share one of those emails so you can use it to craft your own messaging. Its critical to point out specific pagaes…
Job Posting Schema – Why Your Job Board Needs It
A SEO expert who I read regularly thinks the Google Jobs results are being driven by sites that employ a certain job level schema. He’s probably right. Google needs job data in a specific format and sites that use it are in a better position to be ranked. In the post he points out two examples…
Google adding job snippets in results
After googling the phrase “aviation jobs” the other day I noticed this result which caught my eye. Google is creating job snippets off job boardsand placing them in job related searches. So I clicked the “About this Result” link in the bottom right which led me to this page. Apparently Google automatically creates this snippet…
7 Sites to Get Job Board Backlinks for Free (member only)
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Great example of an SEO optimized job description
Lots of job boards and ATS software still dont get how to make a search engine friendly job description. I discovered Freshgigs.ca, a canadian based job board for marketing peeps and thought their job postings were well done. * The URL contains the job title AND location: https://www.freshgigs.ca/jobs/product-brand-marketing-manager-toronto-on-1 * The first thing on the page…