Amazon Adding 100,000 Seasonal Workers for Holiday Shipping

Tech giants are stepping up efforts for the holiday season. Amazon blogged Tuesday it’s filling more than 100,000 seasonal jobs to handle holiday orders. Positions are for employees who will help "pick, pack, and ship," it said. The seasonal jobs offer opportunities for pay incentives, benefits and a “path to a longer-term career, or can simply provide extra income and flexibility during the holiday season,” Amazon said. Google blogged Monday about tips for e-commerce merchants to help optimize consumer searches on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It encouraged merchants to create pages early “so Googlebot has time to discover and index the page,” follow search engine optimization best practices, link to the landing page from home pages, use a recurring URL, use a high-quality image and “ask Google to recrawl your page.”