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    • brandzz
      brandzz last edited by

      So we are in the middle of a hiring blitz looking for sales agents in different areas of the country. One of our internal sales agents used a program called Job-a-matic which appears to be a product developed or sponsored by SimplyHired. This software seems to have put our job posting on a lot strange sites really unrelated to our industry and they job description such as:

      • truck driver jobs
      • teen jobs
      • white collar jobs
      • jobs a go-go
      • database admin jobs
      • medical coding

      and many many more

      When I Google our company name I see all of these listing on pages 3, 4, 5 etc . Is it possible that Google may see these listings as spammy or paid links? It appears as if these listing were just automatically generated and not really controlled in anyway. I'm worried that they could have generated a penalty as we did experience a significant drop in traffic.

      Thanks

      -Brandon

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      • Vizergy
        Vizergy last edited by

        That would scare me.  I would stop using that program and see if you can get the listings deleted.  If not I would disavow them through Google.  I wouldn't take any chances with something like this.

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        • brandzz
          brandzz @Vizergy last edited by

          Thanks for the response, It scared me when I first saw it but didn't really rush to do anything about but I will now.

          Thanks again!

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