I Launched Two Similar Job Boards: Google Indexed One and Rejected the Other
Earlier this year, I launched two websites, remote job boards with almost identical technical setups.
One indexed reasonably well.
The other was indexed briefly, then almost completely removed from Google.
The comparison has changed how I think about launching websites with large numbers of pages.
The mistake, I believe, was making too much content indexable too quickly on a completely new domain.
The first site indexed without major problems.
In February 2026, I launched a remote legal job board.
Like most job boards, it contains a lot of pages; however, at the time I launched it, there were just a handful.
Whilst Google did not rank the site particularly well immediately, it crawled and indexed a reasonable proportion of it. Over time, its search visibility has started to improve.
As the site grew, I created more pages, and now the site has pages for individual jobs, job categories, locations, specialisms,...
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