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Does Yahoo Answers Pass PageRank/Affect Google SERPs

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by j_o, Feb 1, 2008.

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  1. #1
    I answered a couple of questions related to a site I help run, http://oversite.org on Yahoo Answers, and noticed that my link ended up on a PR6 page. Is there anyway that I can have the "nofollow" tag removed from this answer by contributing more or doing something?

    Thanks.
     
    j_o, Feb 1, 2008 IP
  2. mjewel

    mjewel Prominent Member

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    #2
    The links are rel="nofollow" and pass no page rank. Answering questions is for any resulting direct traffic the answer may get, not for helping you with google SERPS.
     
    mjewel, Feb 1, 2008 IP
  3. angilina

    angilina Notable Member

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    links from yahoo answers are useless regarding PR, its impossible to remove nofollow tag, only yahoo can remove no follow tags, no one else can do it:cool:
     
    angilina, Feb 2, 2008 IP
  4. Tugeza

    Tugeza Well-Known Member

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    I wonder if having an account with Yahoo helps in Yahoo SERPs?! Any ideas?
     
    Tugeza, Feb 5, 2008 IP
  5. Kaizoku

    Kaizoku Well-Known Member

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    #5
    It helps, if you add a sitemap. It's like an invitation for Yahoo to mini ddos your site. They will crawl like over 1GB a day.
     
    Kaizoku, Feb 5, 2008 IP
  6. masoha

    masoha Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Yahoo answers is not going to help you PR but it will for sure boost your traffic and is free:rolleyes:
     
    masoha, Feb 6, 2008 IP
  7. j_o

    j_o Well-Known Member

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    thanks guys
     
    j_o, Feb 6, 2008 IP
  8. Torans

    Torans Active Member

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    The old good days are gone mate :D
     
    Torans, Feb 6, 2008 IP
  9. beetle

    beetle Peon

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    Are Yahoo Answers backlinks disappearing? Links in answers or sources section are not clickable anymore. Just plain text now. Is this a new thing with yahoo answers?
     
    beetle, Feb 6, 2008 IP
  10. Speedy Gonzales

    Speedy Gonzales Member

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    It seems as though the links have disappeared beetle, whether it's temporarily or not, remains to be seen. A lot of people seem to have been spamming Yahoo answers lately, and this might have something to with it. If anybody else can provide more information, it would be appreciated.
     
    Speedy Gonzales, Feb 6, 2008 IP
  11. Red_Virus

    Red_Virus Well-Known Member

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    Yes just checked it now, all the links have been de-activated & now the user has to copy paste the link on to the browser, so the question of nofollow or the link juice is all gone now.

     
    Red_Virus, Feb 7, 2008 IP
  12. j_o

    j_o Well-Known Member

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    Wow that sucks more than it being nofollow
     
    j_o, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  13. microtekblue

    microtekblue Well-Known Member

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    #13
    The whole NO FOLLOW tag is a complete waste..

    Some search engines like GOOGLE and YAHOO...sometimes will IGNORE a no follow link.

    FOR example....if you have a WIKI link....it will be followed....even though they use NO FOLLOW...

    I have a wiki link for one of my sites...and yahoo shows it as a backlink for my site.
     
    microtekblue, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  14. Zanswer

    Zanswer Peon

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    #14
    Yahoo shows almost all backlinks, and even Google Webmaster Tools display nofollow links sometimes, but the key question is whether they pass PR and increase SERPs. So far the answer is no.
     
    Zanswer, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  15. korr

    korr Peon

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    Yahoo seems to ignore no_follow more often than Google, especially on links coming from a yahoo domain. I think if Google sees too many no follow links, it will put your site/page in the blog index. A few of my pages with a lot of no-follow backlinks ended up at the top of the Google blog searches for certain keywords and but only in the general ranking for MSN and Yahoo. Of course, most of my pages rank low still so maybe I'm reading it wrong.
     
    korr, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  16. articledirectory

    articledirectory Peon

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    Links are working again now, it was a temporary problem, Yahoo did mention this in their blog.
     
    articledirectory, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  17. microtekblue

    microtekblue Well-Known Member

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    I think that IF search engines index any link to be your backlink..then it WILL pass page rank.

    Otherwise it makes no sense....because in that case they wouldnt use it in the first place....Why index and show a link as a backlink when its not passing page rank? It wont make sense!
     
    microtekblue, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  18. adijaduna2233

    adijaduna2233 Peon

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    its works for live and yahoo for sure.And helps google to index as well.I don't belive this type of link pass pr but it pass something - ranking.
     
    adijaduna2233, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  19. miester

    miester Active Member

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    #19
    yes, it's definately great for boosting traffic tho.
     
    miester, Feb 13, 2008 IP
  20. Whatarewewaitingfor?

    Whatarewewaitingfor? Active Member

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    #20
    A nofollow link has only one thigns associated with it:
    It does not give you the PR advantage.

    However, the Google Bot DOES follow through the link and will use it to index a website, but will NOT pass any PR juice on it.

    As such, posting may get you indexed, but won't help with the SERPS.
     
    Whatarewewaitingfor?, Feb 13, 2008 IP
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