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Connect the Google Indexing API

Set up the Google Indexing API so Google is notified when jobs are published or removed on your job board. Covers credentials and Google's 200-a-day limit.

Written by Nelson Ryan

Warning: This is an advanced feature that relies heavily on Google. We cannot offer support for creating a Google Cloud account or for Google's limits on the API.

The Google Indexing API allows you to notify Google when jobs are published or removed on your Job Boardly site. Setting it up requires a few steps. You'll need a Google Cloud project, a service account and a site verified in Google Search Console.

Follow these steps to integrate the Google Indexing API:

Step 1: Complete Google’s setup process

  1. Create a project and enable the API:

    1. Go to the Google API Console and follow the steps to create a project, enable the Indexing API, and generate credentials.

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Step 6: Click "APIs & Services" from the side menu and then "Credentials"

Step 7: Click "+Create Credentials"

Step 8: Click "Service Account"

Step 9: Fill in service account details, click "Create and continue" and then "Done" once you've completed optional fields. Optional fields are not necessary.

Step 10: Click "Enable APIs and Services" at the top

Step 11: Type "web search indexing api" into the search field and click ENTER to search

Step 12: Select Web Search Indexing API

Step 13: Click "Manage"

Step 14: You will now be taken to this screen below. Click back to the side menu on the left

Step 15: From "APIs & Services" click "Service Accounts"

Step 16: Click on the email property

Step 17: Toggle over to "KEYS" and click "Create new key"

Step 18: Create a private JSON key

  1. Create a service account:

    1. Visit the Service Accounts page.

    2. Create a new service account and download the credentials file in JSON format.

  2. Verify site ownership:

    1. Use Google Search Console to verify ownership of your site.

    2. Add the service account email (found in the JSON file) as a site owner in the Search Console settings.

Detailed instructions are available in the Google Indexing API documentation.

Step 2: Upload your Google Credentials to Job Boardly

  1. Log in to your Job Boardly account and navigate to Integration Settings.

  2. Scroll to the Google Indexing API section.

  3. Click Choose File under “Google credentials file” and upload the JSON file you downloaded from Google.

  4. Click Save to link your account.

Step 3: Enable the Integration

  1. Toggle the Enabled switch in the Google Indexing API section.

  2. Click Save again to finalize the setup.

That’s it! The integration is now complete. Job Boardly will notify Google automatically when jobs are published or expire on your site.

Google's daily limit

Google allows 200 notifications per Google Cloud project per day. Published jobs and removed jobs both count toward this limit, and it resets at midnight Pacific Time. Google's quota page has the current figures.

Google used to have a form for requesting approval and a higher limit. It removed that form from its documentation in October 2026, and there is currently no published way to raise the limit. Google also warns that using extra projects or accounts to get past the limit may get your access revoked.

If your board publishes more than 200 jobs a day, Google still finds the remaining jobs through your sitemap (see Submit your sitemap to Google). If you import jobs in bulk, you can leave Include imported jobs switched off so the limit goes to the jobs posted on your board.

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