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SEO for recruitment and staffing agencies

Recruiters win twice from search: employers looking for help hiring, and candidates looking for work. Sojig builds pages for both and keeps job pages in order.

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Illustrative example

What your customers search

Examples of searches customers make. Your plan is built from your own research.

  • it recruitment agency
  • staffing agency for warehouse workers
  • how to hire a software engineer
  • executive search firm
  • healthcare staffing agency
  • how much do recruiters charge

Why SEO is hard here

Job boards own candidate searches

Big boards rank for most job searches, so agency job pages get buried.

Two audiences with different needs

Employers and candidates search for different things, and most sites serve one well.

Jobs expire constantly

Filled roles leave behind broken or empty pages.

What Sojig does for you

Sector and role pages for employers

Pages for hiring in the sectors and roles you specialize in.

Hiring guides

Salary, interview and hiring process guides employers search for.

Job page fixes

JobPosting structured data, clear titles and redirects for filled roles.

AI answer tracking

Whether assistants name your agency for hiring in your sector.

Example week for a technology recruitment agency4 items to approve
  • New page: Hire DevOps engineersEmployer page · high intent
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  • Draft: How much does it cost to hire a software engineer?Planned from real searches
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  • Add JobPosting data to 23 job pagesFor Google's job listings
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  • Redirect 40 filled rolesTo their sector page
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A recruitment agency SEO playbook

Recruitment is a two-sided business, and so is its search. Employers search for help hiring a specific role, or for advice on pay and process. Candidates search for jobs. Recruitment agency SEO focuses on the employer side, where the fees are, without losing the candidates who make placements possible.

Pages for the roles you place

An employer searching 'hire DevOps engineers' or 'warehouse staffing agency' wants a specialist. A page per sector and key role, with how you find candidates, typical timelines and fees, answers them directly.

Guides employers search for

Salary guides, interview questions and 'how to hire' articles are searched by the people who will hire you. Each one is a chance to show you know the market.

Job pages that Google can read

Job pages with JobPosting structured data can appear in Google's job listings. Clear titles, locations and salary ranges help candidates find them.

Handle expired jobs

Filled roles left online become broken or empty pages. Redirecting them to the matching sector page keeps the site clean and passes their value on.

Measuring recruitment SEO

Track employer enquiries and job orders by landing page, separately from candidate applications. Employer pages usually bring fewer visits and more revenue.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Should we focus on employers or candidates?

Employers usually, since they pay. Candidate pages still matter in specialist sectors, and job structured data helps them appear in Google's job listings.

What happens to job pages when roles are filled?

They should redirect to the sector or role page, so they don't pile up as broken pages. The weekly crawl finds them.

Can a small agency compete with job boards?

On candidate searches, rarely. On employer searches in a specialist sector, yes, and those are the searches that bring in fees.

Do salary guides really earn links?

Good ones do, from news sites, blogs and HR resources, especially when they use your own placement data.

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