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Google’s job Indexing API isn’t the shortcut you think it is

11h ago · curated by Catalyst Web Trendz

Google’s job Indexing API isn’t the shortcut you think it is

I wanted Google’s Indexing API to be the cheat code for job boards. The equation was simply: New job goes live? Push i t to Google. Job gets updated? Notify Google. Job expires? Tell Google to drop it . For any job board owner, that sounds incredible, especially considering job postings are not evergreen assets. They are short-lived, high-churn pages that need to be discovered and removed quickly. If Google is slow to crawl a job URL, the opportunity may already be gone by the time the page gets indexed. So when Google offers an API that appears to let you notify them directly when job pages are created, updated, or deleted, it’s exactly the…

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