Job Scraping - Job Board Coach

By: Brian Douglas Jan 16, 2023 I started a new job board website, I knew without any good keyword rankings, my website would be a ghost town. I had to solve the chicken or egg problem. Without any jobs postings, customers would not come, with out any customers, employers would not post any listings. I also knew that the google "sandbox" would take 6-12 months before you begin to start ranking for any search engine keywords. My traffic users numbers are as follows: Month 1 - 27 users Month 2 - 66 users Month 3 - 212 user Month 4 - 442 users How was I able to get and grow these users? I started with indexable job scraping, I was able to scrape jobs that I imported. I imported about 1500 jobs. The jobs were in the correct schema format to qualify for google for jobs. I then started to share these imported jobs to my social sharing platforms with a paid service called Dlvr.it (14.99 a month). With my site being a geographical location board, I joined a few established facebook groups and would post 1-2 listings about 3 times a week. I would get about 5-10 visitors a day from this. Around the 3rd month I started to get a few paid job postings. Without the scraping/dlvr.it/facebook groups, I would have only receive about 10 visitors a month. I plan to keep growing the site, adding paid indexable backfill jobs with Lensa.com My expenses are low since I am using wordpress. Hosting - $7 a month Dlvr.it - $15 a month Scraping - Free