Craw structure for web site about jobs?

[vladokan]

Hi there,

we have now a client who has a job offering web site.There are many craw errors in it.

My question is how should the url structure in a jobs website look like and which pages should be indexed? What is the best way and tips for optimizing a job website?

Now the posted jobs pages are dynamically like:

examplejob.com/detail-job/1891222223/Careers-for-Mens---Womens/Experienced-Web-Design-Need

I see many job websites allow their job offers to be indexed and may be this is useful because some people find jobs also when directly search in Google. Are they using dynamically urls for that?

And also my related question is what happens when the job offer expires? When Google craws that page again should it be redirected to 404 page or the original job offer text should be there and just to be added info that this job offer has expired? Otherwise If only it's written that it has expired may be there will be too much duplicate content on many many pages.

[TakeshiYoung]

My opinion: Every page that offers some kind of value to the user should be indexable.  Of course, this is assuming your offer pages are not purely duplicate content, and you provide unique value on them.

Expired offers are trickier.  Having an expired notice at the top, with links to similar job offers that are currently open will allow you to continue to get search traffic to those pages.  An alternative option is to noindex/follow them, so that they no longer appear in search results, but continue to pass on any link equity they've acquired.

[vladokan]

Thank you Takeshi, great ideas!