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Yahoo answers plugin?

by John Romaine
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Hey guys,
I was just browsing around the net in search of topics for my next product, and stumbled upon this site below. I believe I googled "house training puppies" or something...

House Training Puppies
Upon browsing the site, I noticed this at the bottom of each article post.

"powered by Yahoo Answers"

So decided to check against one of the articles listed. This one below (at random)

Puppy house training? | House Training Puppies

Then checked it against Yahoo Answers....here it is.

Puppy house training? - Yahoo! Answers

Which indicates that they're obviously using some form of Yahoo Answers automated plugin, directly to their site - yes?

Is anyone familiar with this concept? Or this strategy? Are they actually extracting the data DIRECTLY from Yahoo automatically via a plugin? Or is it just a case of writers, replicating data?

This has really got me thinking. Imagine being able to automatically extract content from Yahoo and post it directly on your site, automatically. This could have huge benefits.

Thoughts anyone?
#answers #plugin #yahoo
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  • Profile picture of the author pwnzor
    This is an old concept... called.. Scraping!

    A lot of Blackhat sites use it, its worthless. Just more duplicate content.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
      Originally Posted by pwnzor View Post

      This is an old concept... called.. Scraping!

      A lot of BlueFart sites use it, its worthless. Just more duplicate content.
      Ahh, okay thanks. First time Id seen this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marcus Paul
    It's a plugin called WPRobot. It's a very good plugin.

    Also, in deference to those who say duplicate content is worthless, there are many autoblogs using duplicate content that rank very well. For a given keyword Google will pick a single version to display, but that doesn't mean that all copies are de-indexed.

    Duplicate content penalties are a myth. Using duplicate content requires two things:

    1 - Use good, readable content that users will like
    2 - Build links to it.

    Duplicate content sites DO rank when you add in link-building.

    All that being said, original content blogs are easier to rank as long as you can write well, or have the money to have good content written for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Goatboy
    I think Marcus Paul is right, but I went one better, I Googled the term "Powered by Yahoo Answers and I came up with this list.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...&aq=f&aqi=&oq=

    I probably wouldn't lump some of these sites like macworld and cnet in with the bluefart guys.

    On page 2, you will find WPRobot's forum listed.
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