How to configure your job site for Google for Jobs

Todo	Your ATS / Career site	AspenTechLabs provided career site (CSC)
Add schema.org markup into HTML (jobs have to include one of the following formats Microdata/RDFa/JSON-LD) http://schema.org/JobPosting	Development required	Added for all clients
Setup data mapping and validate using Structured Data Testing Tool https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool	Development required	AspenTechLabs advanced mapping handles this which results in best compliance and higher ranking in Google Jobs search
Keep sitemap.xml updated, such as when jobs are edited, deleted or created. Ping Google upon update	Development required	Sitemap automatically updated after jobs sync
Handle expired jobs – Google wants to exclude expired jobs, so it is critical to notify them of expired jobs immediately. Page must return 404 or 410 error so Google knows it is expired.	Development required	CSC handles this
Submit sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools	Webmaster action required	CSC account manager

You can get a hassle-free CareerSiteCloud/Google for Jobs transparent layer added. No development required.

In this case, we grab your jobs and send them to Google for Jobs inclusion. And monitor jobs inclusion.

When a job seeker clicks on your job on the Google for Job search page then she:

We noticed you mentioned scraping Indeed.com

Just to confirm: Indeed.com prohibits spidering of its content and they will block anyone trying to scrape it.

Normally, our clients ask us to spider jobs from direct employer websites and ATSes.

In some cases we can spider commercial job boards: if there is a formal agreement between our client and the job board to allow spidering.