--- title: "Is Indeed considered a job board?" description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/answers/is-indeed-considered-a-job-board" canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/answers/is-indeed-considered-a-job-board last_updated: 2026-09-10 --- # Is Indeed considered a job board? > Indeed is considered a job board and it is also an aggregator. Employers post directly on Indeed, which makes it a job board, and Indeed also indexes postings from company career sites and other boards, which makes it an aggregator. Most of the listings a searcher sees are a mix of the two, shown in one results page. **Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/answers/is-indeed-considered-a-job-board **Topic:** Building job boards (https://jobspipe.dev/sources/indeed) The distinction matters more to people who build on job data than to people who apply. A pure job board holds postings that employers created there, so each listing has one owner and a clear close. A pure aggregator holds copies, so a listing can outlive its source and the same role can appear several times under different agency or partner names. Indeed does both, which is why an Indeed result set contains direct employer postings, staffing-agency listings, sponsored placements and aggregated copies side by side, with little on the page to tell them apart. For data quality that mix has two consequences. First, duplicates: the same role often exists on the employer's own applicant tracking system and on Indeed, and sometimes under an agency as well, so any dataset that merges boards needs matching on company, title and location rather than on the listing id. Second, lifetime: Indeed listings sit until the employer closes them or the listing expiry lapses, so a copy can stay public after the source requisition closed. Both are reasons to prefer the employer feed as the record of truth when one exists. JobsPipe collects Indeed's public index alongside the employer feeds from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Workday, SmartRecruiters and Paylocity, and every record names its origin in the provider field of its sources entry so the two kinds can be separated with source_or. The chart below shows the share of each board's active postings that state a salary: Indeed sits in the upper half, ahead of LinkedIn and Workday, while the employer-feed boards vary widely from Y Combinator at the top to SmartRecruiters at the bottom. Ghost scores and sighting dates apply to Indeed rows exactly as to the rest. ## Related questions ### What is the difference between a job board and a job aggregator? A job board hosts postings that employers create on it. An aggregator collects postings from other sites and shows them in one place. Boards own the listing and its close; aggregators hold copies and depend on re-crawling to notice a change. Indeed does both, and LinkedIn also accepts synced employer feeds alongside direct posts. ### Is Indeed a job search engine? Indeed is often described as a job search engine, and the label fits: it indexes postings from across the web the way a search engine indexes pages, ranks them, and also sells direct posting and sponsorship. For a data consumer the search-engine part is what creates copies and lag, and the board part is what creates first-party listings. ### Are Indeed postings duplicated on other boards? Often. A role posted on a company's Greenhouse or Workday site can be aggregated onto Indeed and also copied by agencies. JobsPipe keeps one record per board and names the board on each record, so a query across boards may return the same role from more than one source unless you narrow it with source_or. ### Which is more reliable for job data, Indeed or the employer's career site? The employer's applicant tracking feed, where one exists. It closes when the requisition closes, so removals are detected on the next crawl, while an Indeed listing runs to its expiry. Indeed is the better source for employers who do not run a public feed, which includes many small businesses, and for roles posted through agencies. ## More answers - [Does Indeed have an API?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/does-indeed-have-an-api) - [What are the top job boards?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/what-are-the-top-job-boards) - [What does backfill mean in hiring?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/what-does-backfill-mean-in-hiring) Data behind these answers is published as shares only; every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API (https://jobspipe.dev/jobs-api). --- AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, no-key sandbox (POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search), MCP server, pricing. Free key: https://jobspipe.dev/signup