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Old Feb 7th 2008, 1:13 am
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Yahoo answer no longer allowing live links
Will you stop posting answers in yahoo now?
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 1:21 am
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No, because you don't have to post live links to get traffic on Yahoo Answers.
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 1:28 am
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No, because you don't have to post live links to get traffic on Yahoo Answers.
Can you please clarify, if you cannot post a live link means yahoo answer will generate ZERO traffic. No one will copy and paste your url from YA.
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 1:37 am
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if you cannot post a live link means yahoo answer will generate ZERO traffic. No one will copy and paste your url from YA.
If someone asks "Where can I go to learn more about xyz?" and someone responds "Go to http://www.xyz-site.com/", of course the person who asked the question will copy and paste the URL into the browser. So will others who are interested in learning about xyz.

I think it's a good move to weed out the crap and spam, and to provide higher-quality results.
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 4:43 am
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What? No links? Where can I find details of this update?
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 4:44 am
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Probably I would. But is it really true???
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 4:49 am
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Yeah I'm checking it out all the links are deactivated and they're truncated so people can't even copy & paste the old links. Ahh well that was a huge waste of time. At least the links still seem to work on the profile page.
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 4:52 am
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Considering the truncated links, one would have to assume they would put the links back again. Also, it does seem to be a possible oops on their part. I was on the site about an hour ago and the links were definately live.
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 2:24 pm
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I dont use yahoo answers anyway, yahoo used nofollow tag, so live links r useless
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 2:38 pm
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I think most people were spamming, thats the reason they dont allow
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 4:12 pm
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Considering the truncated links, one would have to assume they would put the links back again. Also, it does seem to be a possible oops on their part. I was on the site about an hour ago and the links were definately live.
Hah you were right!

http://yanswersblog.com/index.php/ar...s-link-update/

They are saying its an error, they are aware of it, and they're working to fix it ASAP.
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 5:34 pm
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Yahoo answers links are a good way to attract highly targeted traffic, it doesn't matter if links have nofollow attribute, they worth every minute spent answering questions.
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Old Feb 7th 2008, 6:07 pm
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ok - so I guess this was a mistake...I use Yahoo answers and I think it's a good tool...
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Old Feb 9th 2008, 3:06 am
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Its baaaack. And they seem to have updated their blog with another lame post about evaluating sources. I know search engine types love an "authoritative source" but trying to limit the entire knowledge of the internet to a few domains will never work.
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Old Feb 9th 2008, 4:17 am
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the links are back. yahoo answers is a great tool for getting backlinks.
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Old Feb 9th 2008, 1:32 pm
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Ive had previous success with yahoo answers so I suppose thats great.

And anyway I suppose people who are totally Dependant on one source of income like yahoo answers shouldn't be. its a good lesson for them to learn
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Old Feb 9th 2008, 1:45 pm
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Who cares about yahoo answers...

Its a complete WASTE....

IF getting 5 visits is ideal for your web business, then you should care about yahoo answers lol.

OTHERWISE,,,yahoo answers is totally crap....and no one even clicks any outside links anyways.

STOP WASTING YOUR SEO TIME ON STUPID THINGS LIKE YAHOO ANSWERS!
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Old Feb 9th 2008, 8:08 pm
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Traffic tricks??

Wut is that lol?

My point is that yahoo answers just sucks!

It will never give you any good traffic..and its a complete waste of time!
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