How I Got Traffic To A New Job Board Website

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