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How to start and run a niche job board

Step-by-step help for starting a niche job board website: picking the build route, filling it, setting how it earns and meeting Google's job posting rules.

Start a board in a safe order and know what to check before the first paid posting.

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How to start a job board website: seven steps for a niche board, with the arithmetic and Google's rules

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Seven steps to start a niche job board website: pick the niche, choose software or a plugin, fill the board, set how it earns and meet Google's job rules.

Bottom line: Pick one niche, choose hosted software or a WordPress plugin, decide how listings arrive, set how the board earns, make each posting eligible for Google's job results, test a paid posting end to end, then launch. A board covers its platform cost when paid postings, times what each one nets, add up to the platform fee.

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What is Job Boardly: how the platform works, how a board gets listings and how it earns

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What Job Boardly is, read from the vendor's pages: hosted software for running a job board, how listings arrive, how a board earns and what it leaves to you.

Bottom line: Job Boardly is a hosted platform for building and running a job board on your own domain. It supplies the site, a way to fill it with listings, ways to charge employers or job seekers and search tools such as Google Jobs markup. You bring the niche, the audience and the employers.