Yahoo Answers Techniques And Ranking

1:42 pm Search Engine Optimization: SEO

While I await my wordpress seo ranking to materialize, I wonder i over optimized it :-), but Yahoo Answers is something I am digging into with a technique i am trying to use to rank for certain… topics.

In doing some research I notice some funy things.
First, I’ve documented a keyword research strategy for using Yahoo Answers, but I don’t know how viable it is until I test it.
So I decided to do some research:
Here’s what I found. I foud that some questions and answers are getting some google page rank.
What’s even more interesting is that I cannot tell why.
At first I though the only ones to get page rank are from “important people” like:


Barak Obama’s
How can we engage more people in the democratic process?” (PR1)
India’s president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam: “What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?” (PR3)
David Bellamy: “What is the most important everyday thing you could do to save the planet?” (PR4!)
Stephen Hawking: “How can the human race survive the next hundred years?” (PR5!!!)

I thought it was because they were “VIP’s” OR… that they had lots o text (several paragraphs worth of “content”
But then i noticed… there were also a few “regular” Q&A’s that didn’t fit those criteria…such as:

How do you get rid of ants in your kitchen” (PR2)
How can I avoid mosquito bites?” (PR3)
Do people who were born blind, see dreams ?” (PR4!)

Only reason must be links that wind up pointing to those answers somehow…..
Brainstorm: – link build to “your” quesions/answers that link back to your sites???? (too much work?)

One Response
  1. Dhira :

    Date: November 3, 2007 @ 5:33 am

    Okay while fiddling around, I found another little tidbit.

    I have joined a site that allows you to add Yahoo Answers to your Wordpress blog.
    using AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED CONTENT FROM YAHOO ANSWERS!

    The crazy thing is I had forgotten about it.
    Well, luckily I was reminded that I have it…
    This is an outstanding script that will allow you to get your blogs of the ground in minutes. All the while allowing you to continue to add new posts and comments at your leisure. Even if you don’t add anything yourself these blogs will continue to update and grow.

    Easy Setup:

    1. Install wordpress (if you don’t already have one)
    2. Create your wordpress categories
    3. Set cronjob times

    So of course I am thinking of adding this as “content” as I saw that the demo sites they used :
    http://www.carcareanswers.com/
    http://www.askpregnancy.net/
    are getting page rank… which makes me think google doesnt mind the ‘duplicate content’ issue?

    Automated content is great!!!

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