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SEO on Jobs sites: how to deal with expired listings with "Google for Jobs" around

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grnjbs0717 last edited by
Dear community,

When dealing with expired job offers on jobs sites from a SEO perspective, most practitioners recommend to implement 301 redirects to category pages in order to keep the positive ranking signals of incoming links.

Is it necessary to rethink this recommendation with "Google for Jobs" is around?

Google's recommendations on how to handle expired job postings does not include 301 redirects.

"To remove a job posting that is no longer available:
1. Remove the job posting from your sitemap.
2. Do one of the following: Note: Do NOT just add a message to the page indicating that the job has expired without also doing one of the following actions to remove the job posting from your sitemap.
  - Remove the JobPosting markup from the page.
  - Remove the page entirely (so that requesting it returns a 404 status code).
  - Add a noindex meta tag to the page."
Will implementing 301 redirects the chances to appear in "Google for Jobs"? What do you think?
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