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WP-YA Grabber: Free Yahoo Answers Plugin for WordPress

Ryan — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:03:47 +0000

Today I have the pleasure to share with you a free wordpress plugin to automatically populate your blog with content from Yahoo! Answers.

For those of you that might not be familiar with Yahoo! Answers, it’s been described as

“The largest knowledge-sharing community on the Web. It’s an online community where anyone can ask and answer questions on any topic. Yahoo! Answers connects people to the information they’re seeking with those who know it. Everyone has life experience and knowledge about something, and Yahoo! Answers provides a way for people to share their experience and insight.”

So ya its a cool site, buts its also a great source of content, and this plugin will allow you to use all that content on your own website with ease.

WP-YA Grabber will create a post from questions asked on Yahoo! Answers and then insert all the answers to that question as comments on that post.

I often use this plugin on affiliate product sites I create with EZ Empire Builder. I’ve found that this plugin tends to add that “human element” to these affiliate sites that users can connect with, and it increases the visitors duration and trust factor a bit. People somehow feel more inclined to stay on a site and trust its links a bit more if they can see that others have found that site useful as well. I think the proper term for it is “social proof”.

So what I do is create a few FAQ/Support/Forum type categories on my EZ Empire Builder built websites, and load them up with questions and answers using this plugin. I then activate the recent comments sidebar widget and set it to show the last 5-10 “comments” left … aka the answers from yahoo answers. Visitors to the site then see all kinds of “activity” on the site, and consider it to be a trustworthy source. At least it seems to work that way, so i consider it a nice little companion for these kinds of sites.

WP-YA Grabber works for all languages supported by Yahoo! Answers. Allows you to define the exact topic categories, and sub categories you would like your content pulled from. And allows you to enter in specific keywords to further refine the content.

So if you only want to post content in “German” from the “pets” category, and the “fish” subcategory which is about “discus” you can set all that up in about 45 seconds per category =)

If your unsure if this kind of content would be a good fit for your blog, I would suggest just downloading it and giving it a try. Create a test category in your blog, and post everything into that test category, if you don’t like it just delete everything and try again. This plugin is pretty simple to use.

You can install this plugin on as many blogs as you would like for free & each domain will be given a unique unlock code when its activated.

I’ve personally used this Yahoo Answers plugin on wp2.5-wp3.0.1, on godaddy, hostgator, vps.net, and seohosting servers without any troubles (knock on wood). If you have any troubles with it let us know and we will do what we can to help get you going.

If you enjoy this plugin let us know. We’ve been meaning to release a series of little free wordpress plug-ins like this for months now but keep getting side tracked. So if you like free wordpress plugins like this leave a comment below and I will keep passing them along your way.

280 Article Directories For Auto Blogging

gerry — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:47:21 +0000

Here is our running list of available article directories for scraping with WP Scraper. Not all of these article directories have been tested. Feel free to test on your own.

If you find any that work particularly well, please let me know! :)

281 total, updated 12/02/2009

www.101articles.com

www.1articleworld.com

www.1st-in-articles.com

www.365articles.com

www.a1articles.com

www.aardvarkarticles.net

www.accessibleinsights.com

www.acmearticles.com

www.activearticles.com

www.add-articles.com

www.advisorarticles.com

www.afroarticles.com

www.allentrepreneurinfo.com

www.allfreelancework.com

www.alliedarticles.com

www.allmerchants.com

www.allthewebsites.org

www.allwomencentral.com

www.alumbo.com

www.amazines.com

www.approvedarticles.com

www.archivex-ht.com

www.article99.com

www.articlealley.com

www.articleavenue.com

www.articlebar.com

www.articlebase.info

www.articlebeach.com

www.articlebin.com

www.articleblender.com

www.articlebliss.com

www.articlecentral.com

www.articlecircle.com

www.articlecity.com

www.articlecity.com/rss.shtml

www.articleclick.com

www.articleclone.com

www.article-content-king.com

www.articlecopy.com

www.articlecounty.com

www.articlecube.com

www.articledashboard.com

www.article-directory.net

www.article-domain.com

www.articlefair.com

www.articlefeeder.com

www.articlefever.com

www.articlefinders.com

www.articlefrenzy.com

www.articlegarden.com

www.articlegeek.com

www.article-hangout.com

www.articlehub.com

www.articleintelligence.com

www.articleinterchange.com

www.articlejoe.com

www.articlelocker.com

www.articlelove.com

www.articlemaniac.com

www.article-marketer.com

www.articlematrix.com

www.articlenetworks.com

www.articlenews.us

www.articlenexus.com

www.articleobsession.com

www.articleonlinedirectory.com

www.articlepeak.com

www.articlepoint.com

www.articlepros.com

www.articler.com

www.articles.com.my

www.articles.simplysearch4it.com

www.articles.usewho.com

www.articles411.com

www.articlesandauthors.com

www.articlesbase.com

www.articlesbeyondbetter.com

www.articlesbridge.com

www.articles-central.info

www.articlesearchnet.com

www.articlesengine.com

www.articleset.com

www.articlesexpress.com

www.articlesfactory.com

www.articleshaven.com

www.articleshow.com

www.articles-hub.com

www.articlesmagazine.com

www.articlesnatch.com

www.articlesnetwork.com

www.articles-online.biz

www.articlesonline.org

www.articlesphere.com

www.articlesrepository.com

www.articlestreet.com

www.articleteller.com

www.articletogo.com

www.articletrader.com

www.article-treasure.com

www.articlevenue.com

www.articlewarehouse.com

www.articleway.com

www.articlewheel.com

www.articlewiz.com

www.articleworld.net

www.articlewow.com

www.articlezilla.com

www.artsymmetry.com

www.authorconnection.com

www.bestezines.com

www.bestinfobay.com

www.bestnichearticles.com

www.bharatbhasha.com

www.bigarticle.com

www.bigarticledirectory.com

www.bigarticles.com

www.biz-ewomen.com

www.biz-whiz.com

www.blogwidow.com

www.boconline.com

www.bpubs.com

www.businessarticledepot.com

www.businessclique.com

www.businessknowhow.com

www.businessknowledgesource.com

www.businessnation.com

www.businesstoolchest.com

www.buzzle.com

www.certificate.net

www.changingearth.org

www.chinamaze.com

www.christiannotepad.com

www.clearviewpublications.com

www.connectionteam.com

www.constant-content.com

www.content-articles.com

www.content-corral.com

www.content-edge.com

www.createonlinebusiness.com

www.cyberindian.com

www.digital-women.com

www.dime-co.com

www.dognewscenter.com

www.easyarticles.com

www.ebusiness-articles.com

www.e-calc.net

www.eclipse-articles.com

www.ehealtharticle.com

www.exchangenet.com

www.ezinearticles.biz

www.ezinearticles.com

www.ezined.com

www.ezine-dir.com

www.ezinefinder.com

www.e-zine-list.com

www.ezinelocater.com

www.ezine-marketing.com

www.ezine-writer.com.au

www.factsvault.com

www.financial-authors.com

www.findmorearticles.com

www.freearticlehq.com

www.freearticles4us.com

www.free-articles-zone.com

www.freeforallarticles.com

www.freesticky.com

www.goarticle.net

www.goarticles.com

www.greatarticles.co.uk

www.hamazines.com

www.helium.com

www.hercommunity.com

www.highprofilearticles.com

www.home-business-directory.com

www.homeincome.com

www.hotarticles.net

www.howitworks.net

www.howtoadvice.com

www.howtowinthemoneygame.com

www.httparticles.com

www.huginc.com

www.ibizresources.com

www.ideamarketers.com

www.impactarticles.com

www.inkpot.com/zines

www.internetarticledirectory.com

www.internethomebusinessarticles.com

www.isnare.com

www.jogena.com

www.klienwachter.com

www.knowhow-now.com

www.kokkada.com

www.linkgeneral.com

www.linkgrinder.com

www.linksnoop.com

www.listchannel.com/dir

www.list-city.com

www.livearticledirectory.com

www.loanarticles.co.uk

www.look-4it.com

www.lydiasarticles.com

www.mailbiz.com

www.mainstreetmom.com

www.marcommwise.com

www.marketing-seek.com

www.marketingsource.com

www.marketingtroll.co.uk

www.media13.com

www.misterarticle.com

www.morganarticlearchive.com

www.my-articles.com

www.myfamilyliving.com

www.myfavoriteezines.com

www.myfreearticlecentral.com

www.neoarticle.com

www.newfreearticles.com

www.new-list.com

www.news-money.com

www.niche-content-articles.com

www.one-sublime-directory.com

www.personal-finance-hq.com

www.postarticles.com

www.powerhomebiz.com

www.pressarticle.com

www.procontentsite.com

www.promotenewz.com

www.promotionworld.com

www.purplepages.ie

www.real-estate-article-directory.com

www.rectonet.com

www.reprintarticles.com

www.reprintedarticles.com

www.rightbiz.com

www.rlrouse.com

www.savearticles.com

www.searchwarp.com

www.selfgrowth.com

www.selfseo.com

www.site-city.com/members/e-zine-master

www.site-reference.com

www.smallbizarticles.com

www.smallbusinessoutpost.com

www.smartads.info

www.smasharticles.com

www.suite101.com

www.superpublisher.com

www.superzines.com

www.theallineed.com

www.thearticlelibrary.com

www.themanager.org

www.thriftyfun.com

www.tntarticles.com

www.top7business.com

www.topicplanet.com

www.ultimatearticledirectory.com

www.unitedarticles.com

www.uniterra.com

www.upublish.info

www.uswebpros.com

www.valuablecontent.com

www.webarticles.com

www.webmasterslibrary.com

www.websitefuel.com

www.web-source.net

www.weeklytips.com

www.wisdomextract.com

www.womensarticles.com

www.workathomearticles.net

www.work-at-home-jobs-iowa.com

www.workoninternet.com

www.worthyarticles.com

www.zinebook.com

www.zinos.com

Rewriting with Scraper and Feeder. Is it possible?

gerry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:17:51 +0000

Do the feeds/scrapers just pull and paste content or is it rewritten?

ANSWER:

Currently the content is NOT rewritten but we DO have a new plugin almost ready to release that will allow you to rewrite articles on the fly, if you’re interested in that. As of Nov 5th, its 95% complete.

Setting Up WordPress Categories and Auto-blogging

gerry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:05:35 +0000

Do I need to setup different feeds/scrapers/tubes for each category?

ANSWER:

There is no simple answer. One way is if you have sub-niches that are still popular enough to have their own feeds. Then group your keywords into sub-niches and stuff random keywords from that sub-group into the sub-niche categories.

Another way is to find more targeted sources rather than relying on ezinearticles for your source. There are blogs and forums for nearly every niche that provide rss content and will usually also work with scraper.