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# Recruitment SEO Job listings are the most perishable content on the web. A role is live for three weeks and then it's dead, which means the site's indexable surface turns over constantly. The other structural fact: aggregators own job search. Competing with them on "jobs in [city]" is not a strategy. The winnable ground is specialism, employer-side intent, and salary data. ## What ranking here actually looks like - **Generic job search terms** — owned by the major aggregators and the search engines' own job features. Not winnable. - **Specialist role plus location** ("mechanical design engineer jobs Bristol") — winnable for a specialist agency with real inventory. - **Salary queries** ("[role] salary UK") — high volume, and the strongest asset available to a recruiter. - **Career advice and process** ("how to answer X interview question") — winnable long tail, heavily AI-Overviewed. - **Employer-side terms** ("recruitment agency for [sector]", "cost of hiring") — the commercial half, much less contested. **The employer side is where the revenue is and where the aggregators aren't.** Candidates come from aggregators regardless. Clients search for agencies, and that market is comparatively open. ## The pages that matter | Page | Intent | Why it matters here | |---|---|---| | **Salary guides with your own data** | Know | The single best asset. Links, traffic, authority | | **Sector/specialism pages** | Buy (employer) | Commercial core for the client side | | **Role + lo