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Post your job board here👇, and I'll provide your tips on how to grow it

Hey all, I am the founder of jBoard.io, which allows creating a job board with just a few clicks(https://react.cafe is an example of a job board build with jBoard.io).

I spent a lot of time during the last months analyzing how successful job boards were built and marketed. Post your job board here, I'll provide you tips on how to improve and grow it.

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    Mine's hyper-niche (English-friendly tech jobs in Japan) but I'd appreciate any feedback!

    https://japan-dev.com

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      Clean design. Well-done. I've just passed it on to a friend over there.
      How to you verify jobs don't require "Little to no overtime"?

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        Hey, thanks a lot!

        I manually screen every company before allowing them to post jobs. It's also a tiny community and I've been a part of it for a long time so I can generally tell if a company is a good fit or not.

        Having said that, the "little to no overtime" is intended to describe the types of role we post, not as a guarantee.

        There may be a better way of explaining that, but I'm struggling to find a concise way of putting it.

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      @juhaelee your job board looks really cool! You have a lot of content/tools that can be useful for your audience. If I was you , that this point I would put already all my effort into marketing to grow my audience and latter sales to get employers to post paid jobs.

      Few things that I notice

      • The idea of " Interview Questions" questions is really great. I would try to enhance this page a little more, maybe add some interesting statistics that would differentiate this page from your competitors and try to get backlinks. One note, I am not sure if "AE Interview Questions" is the best title here, there are only 200 searches per month for the title, I wonder if there is a similar keyword that might get more monthly searches. Usually with "Interview Questions fox X" I have seen more monthly searches.
      • Add a custom and SEO-friendly title to all your pages. For example, you can have
        "https://www.saasae.com/sales-jobs/atlassian" with the title "Sales jobs at Atlassian" instead of "https://www.saasae.com/companies/223dc7e2-e522-4c99-b687-4b136d3ae06e" with "SaaSAE - Find top SaaS sales jobs". Also note, shorter, human readable URLs rank better on Google.
      • One of the ways that you can promote the job board is by just finding online groups(FB, Linkedin, Reddit, Forums, etc...) where people might be interested in selling jobs and post your job links from time to time. This might position your job board as the go-to place for saas sales jobs.
      • Your Google page speed is only 62 for the home page on mobile, there is definitely room to improve this one too, which will positively affect your ranking in Google.

      Good luck with your project @juhaelee!

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    Very cool, just realized IndieHackers has a Job Boards community. Thanks for doing this.

    We launched our non-clinical jobs board recently for clinicians looking to escape the bedside grind:

    https://www.grepmed.com/jobs

    Would love any feedback!

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    Hey man, thanks for doing this. If you still have time I'd love if you review my site, it is a remote developer job board with transparent salaries.

    https://www.remotextra.com/

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      I like the design of emailtribe.io, looks simple and intuitive. Your messaging at the top also is pretty clear and emphasizes how EmailTribe is different from other generic job boards like Indeed, Glassdoor, etc ...

      Here are a few things that I noticed that you can improve

      • I would separate categories into separate pages, like "https://emailtribe.io/jobs/email-marketing", "https://emailtribe.io/jobs/email-development" and will put clear SEO friendly titles for them. For example, there are about 1.3K monthly searches for "html email developer jobs" phrase and looks like it's not that hard to target the keyword. Keyword difficulty on ahrefs.com is only 3 from 100, so with just a few good backlinks, good SEO title, and good content on your page(which you already have) you should be able to rank on Google.

      • Content marketing also might be beneficial here. For example, I imagine there are a lot of "how to" searches for email development. You can also get inspiration from https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=email+html and put on your blog better, more guided answers for top keywords.

      • And last but not least, your google page speed is very low on mobile, only 45(https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Femailtribe.io&tab=mobile) which is gonna hurt your SEO ranking to some level. I would say you need at least 90+.
        We do the same at jboard.io, I make sure that job boards that are created with our software have at least 90+ score on both devices to make sure we are not hurting SEO ranking.

      Good luck with your project Anton!

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    Hi Marty!
    I just published my board, Wait, What Do You Do?, and would love to get your feedback.

    As an engineer, I am particularly curious about your marketing tips, as I have a sum total of 0 experience with it.

    Thanks in advance!

    Looks like you had replied to my other post already 🤦lol. Thank you very much for the thoughtful review!

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