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Click Validation

Talroo checks inbound traffic before we pay you. A click has to look like a real jobseeker who could actually apply for the job you showed them, and the job must be active and valid

Legitimate jobseekers — not every click pays​

To receive credit for a valid click, the interaction must reflect genuine interest from someone who reasonably fits the hiring context Talroo is monetizing—the job surfaced should be suitable for a valid applicant for that role given how you presented it. Clicks driven by deceptive placements, incentivized taps, or traffic that couldn’t realistically be applying to jobs in that funnel do not meet that bar.

We do not award earnings when traffic is:

  • Automated or bot-like — scrapers, headless farms, scripted traffic, or other non-human patterns.
  • Duplicate / double attribution — the same underlying action counted multiple times beyond what Talroo’s attribution treats as payable (e.g. rapid repeat clicks without a new substantive intent path).
  • Outside the supported geography — the Publisher Program focuses on U.S. job seekers and inventory; Talroo does not pay on clicks originating from outside the United States.

Operational reviews, fraud tooling, and network policies may also mark traffic ineligible regardless of upstream intent.

Expired and Stale Clicks​

Even real jobseekers can land on a click that pays less, or nothing.

Expired Clicks​

A click is expired when the job is no longer taking traffic at full value. Usually the advertiser's budget (including daily budget) ran out, or the job was paused, removed, or outside its schedule.

The jobseeker might still land somewhere useful. You just get a reduced payout.

Expired payout

Expired clicks currently earn about 6 cents depending on quality.

Job swapping

When a click is expired, Talroo tries to swap in a similar live job. If that works, the click is no longer expired, BUT the replacement job may pay a different amount than what you advertised, and it ignores any minimums you requested.

That's usually better than 6 cents. If you'd rather get the user back instead, use the rdr parameter.

Stale Clicks​

A click is stale when the click URL is older than Talroo's pricing window (often 24 hours). The job may still be live, but the price baked into that old URL is no longer valid.

This only applies to the XML feed. The clock starts when the feed was generated. If someone clicks after the window, the click is stale.

Stale payout

Stale clicks are never valid and earn nothing.

How to Keep Expired and Stale Clicks Down​

XML Publishers​

  • Refresh often: daily at a minimum; every 3–6 hours is a common target. Try to match when Talroo regenerates the feed.
    • On each refresh, take down jobs that are no longer in the feed.
  • Pass rdr so we can send the jobseeker back to you when the listing isn't paying. RDR
  • Be careful with email and other slow channels. The longer a job sits in a copy of your data, the more likely the click is expired or stale by the time someone clicks.
  • The Job Status API can still check a job before you send traffic. It's deprecated.

API Publishers​

  • Don't cache search results and click URLs for long. Query again before you send a click.
  • Pass rdr so we can send the jobseeker back to you. RDR

These go through Talroo's live system, so freshness is handled for you.