Here is a thing most staffing agencies never look at. Open your website's jobs section and count the listings. Now count how many are still actually open. The gap between those two numbers is dragging your site down.
Every job you post becomes a page. When the job fills, the page stays. After a year, you have hundreds of thin, dead pages that say “this position has been filled” or, worse, still look open. Google sees a site that is mostly stale pages, and it trusts the whole site less. That hurts your employer pages too.
Why Google cares
Google tries to show pages that are useful right now. A job listing from eight months ago is not useful to anyone. When most of your site is pages like that, Google spends its time crawling junk instead of your industry pages, and it starts to doubt that your site is well kept. Your best pages pay for your worst ones.
The fix, in three parts
1. Take down filled jobs the day they fill. Make it part of the recruiter's close-out checklist. If your job board software can expire listings automatically, turn that on. If a page must stay for a while, send it to the matching role page instead of leaving a dead end.
2. Build evergreen role pages. Instead of a new page for every forklift job, build one page that always exists: “Forklift Operator Jobs in [Your City].” It explains the role, the typical pay range, the shifts you usually fill, and what you check. It links to the current open jobs when there are some, and stays useful when there are none. One role page holds its rank for years. A hundred listings never rank at all.
3. Build evergreen industry hubs. One page per industry on the candidate side: “Warehouse Jobs,” “Office Jobs,” “Healthcare Jobs.” Each one links to its role pages. These match the employer-side specialty pages, and together they tell Google your site is organized and alive.
Which role pages to build first
Look at the roles you fill most. For a light industrial agency that might be picker, packer, forklift operator, machine operator and shipping clerk. For an office agency, receptionist, data entry, customer service and bookkeeper. Build five, and build them well. Add more as the placements prove it.
Keep the listings you do post clean
When you post an open job, give it a plain title with the role and the city, a real pay range, the shift, and a short apply form. Do not paste the client's whole job description. Link it up to its role page. Then take it down when it fills. A small, clean jobs section beats a huge messy one.
How to check the damage
Search Google for your website name plus the word “jobs” and look at what comes up. If you see listings from last year, that is what Google thinks your site is. Fix it, and watch your employer pages start to move.
If you use a job board plugin
Many agencies run their jobs through a plugin or a feed from their recruiting software. Check what it does with a filled job. Some leave the page up forever. Some send it to an error page, which is worse. The right setting is either to remove the page and send visitors to the role page, or to keep the page but mark it as filled and point to the role page. Your web person can set this in an hour. It is one of the best hours you will spend on your site.
Role pages are candidate pages that also help employers
A manager looking at your site will read your role pages too. A clear “Forklift Operator Jobs” page that lists pay ranges, shifts and what you check tells the manager you know the role and have a pipeline for it. That is one page doing two jobs. Build it with both readers in mind, and link it from the matching specialty page on the employer side.
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