Amazon Promotes Askville & LinkedIn Launches Answers Services
Gary Price spotted Amazon promoting Askville more aggressively the other day. For example, a search on travel new york city brings up an Askville promotion all the way at the bottom left of the page, it looks like this: Also, Kev at SEOptimise notes that LinkedIn launched an Answers service early this morning. You can […]
Barry Schwartz on January 4, 2007 at 9:30 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Gary Price spotted Amazon promoting Askville more aggressively the other day. For example, a search on travel new york city brings up an Askville promotion all the way at the bottom left of the page, it looks like this:
Also, Kev at SEOptimise notes that LinkedIn launched an Answers service early this morning. You can see it at https://www.linkedin.com/answers?trk=tab_answers. Yes, this is brand new, because last night I was updating my LinkedIn profile and it was not one of the options.
All very timely efforts by Amazon (Askville) and LinkedIn after Google dropped their Answers product, as Forbes hints to.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.