Facebook Q&A???
Today Mashable announced in a blog post that Facebook is beta testing a new Q&A feature that they plan on rolling out to compete with Yahoo Answers.
I’m frequently use Yahoo Answers for several things in my Internet Marketing, several of which are;
- Ideas for new content for my blogs and articles. I can see what people are interested in discussing and then write specific articles about their concerns.
- Answering questions in my niche of expertise to build exposure for me and my brand
- Building back link links to my websites
So when I heard that Facebook was rolling out this new feature I immediately signed up.
To begin you first must ask and answer three questions of your own first.
My first three questions were:
- How did you get over your fear of flying?
- Can radar detectors detect police cars? (one of the most frequently asked questions when I ran Radarbusters)
- And of course, What is SEO?
If you’re one of the lucky ones that will be accepted as one of Facebook beta testers, you will then be invited to tour the Facebook Palo Alto Headquarters to meet the team that built Q&A for the Facebook network!
Now to wait to hear back from Facebook <grin>
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27th May 2010 3 Comments
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We hit the
sweet spot.
sweet spot.
This is a good example of how crowded the marketplace is for long-tail keyword-based answers:
Facebook will have tough competition.
In addition, quality of content is king. Yahoo answers sucks because the people answering on it tend to be dumbasses. Pushing an answers product to the Facebook masses is the same, though you do get the advantage of polling 500 million people.
Thus anyone with half a brain will continue to use Google, which tries to present the best results possible. If the Facebook answers are top notch, they'll be ranked highly in SERPs. If they're not, they'll be relegated to the garbage pile of low ranked SERPs. Content sites like Yelp that are clear authorities and maintain high quality through moderation are also going to pose a significant challenge. We know Google provides good data and we know Yelp provides good data – how will Facebook overcome this?
I don't know if you remember Facebook's Marketplace (it still exists, apparently, because I get emails about it weekly now), but that doesn't seem to be challenging eBay anytime soon, even with Facebook's social networking and 500 million userbase to draw from.
really sad that facebook answers doesn't work from my iPad. sorry, I've tried, can't get keyboard to work. 'paste' either.
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