Content Duplication for Job Posting

[peoplesutra]

Hello! I am responsible for SEO of a job portal of a recruitment agency. We get 30-40 jobs every month which we post on a) our job portal b) other job portals (like monster, career builder, Naukri , etc). How do avoid content duplication? We can only post the same job descriptions everywhere.

We always post the job on our site first and then the other job portals**. How to ensure that Google knows our portal is the original job posters and not other job portals.** Thank you.

[josh-riley]

Honestly, then you aren't really giving yourself any options - or the portals you use/systems, etc. aren't.

Since you can't caonical or do 301s or any of the other indicators Google looks for to figure out duplicate content, you can't really tell Google you are the originator. Even if you can't do a regular hyperlink, can you do a non-hyperlink/URL in the posting?

[peoplesutra]

These job sites don’t allow us to link back..

[AndreVanKets]

Perhaps Advertise the job opportunity on the "other" sites with a "enquire" or "find out more" button that links to the original job add on your website.

Here's an example: 
http://www.indeed.co.za/viewjob?jk=504a052eea774080&q=inbound+call+centre+agent&l=cape+town+city+bowl&tk=17dnaci1t06ag4bm&from=ja&alid=c0eeacd89fc5c3af&utm_source=jobseeker_emails&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=job_alerts

The button "view or apply to job" links back to the original advert.

As long as you are linking to the original source, you are safe.

Greg