Hi, I'm interested in receiving some feedback on a new system I've developed that automates the most difficult aspects of publishing content and building inbound links. Site is at http://www.magneticwebtraffic.com
Does that mean the content is stolen ? or used with yahoo's permission to republish their content. Also how long do you think it will be before search engines just ban the IP range the forums are on ?
Yahoo has an API specifically for the purpose of searching, downloading, and re-publishing their content from Yahoo Answers, one simply needs to attribute the source, for example "Powered by Yahoo Answers" at the bottom of the page. As for the second point, this is the whole purpose of designing the system the way I did. Inbound links have no value if they all come from the same IP. The system requires 2 hosting accounts... the first accomodates the backend database for all the member forums, but the forums themselves are each hosted on a different hosting account, on a different service, on a different IP, within a different range.
How is publishing legitimately syndicated content considered spam? Particularly when no content is duplicated within the system. It's real content, created by real people, asking and answering legitimate questions. Also, each member gets their own forum on a topic of their choice and the idea here is to provide content that real users would find compelling and interesting enough to actually join the forum and add their own posts. When starting a new forum... the forum always begins empty. Even this forum, as busy as it is had to have its first post made at one point in time. Who wants to go first and join a discussion that doesn't exist? Most people who start forums, start them with some sort of seed content whether it be registering multiple user accounts and "talking to themselves", or re-publishing content that is scraped from other forums, or legitimately re-publishing syndicated content as my system facilitates, and they do this until others join in. Would you have signed up on digitalpoint and posted any messages if it didn't appear to be an active forum, or if it was completely empty?
Not quite true, the whole Yahoo Answers posted to a forum thing has been done to death way back when Ico-Content kicked off. You can also pull the content in to Wordpress and many other platforms as well. You will find Google is pretty good at picking up Yahoo Answers stuff, the last forum i had generated with it had a PR5 homepage, PR4 forum categories and the traffic and rankings was horrible. It did work ok in 06 when Tops30 (Used to be a mod here) developed Ico-Content, but now it's less than effective unfortunately.