Discussions about Q&A, if so inclined.

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   paradigmsearchposted 10 years ago

   Have any thoughts about Q&A; do's, don'ts, observations, opinions, and whatever else comes to mind? I'll start.
   
   An observation. Sometime within the last 48 hours, I deleted 2 questions that I concluded the search engines have decided to permanently hate. This morning, I wake up to find that my Q&A traffic had doubled, and I'd even gotten an adsense click. Cause and effect? Or just coincidence? You decide.
   
   I'm contemplating both deleting more non-engagement questions and adding more new questions.

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      SimeyCposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I think you should delete more - I also got a !&A Adsense click - Thanks!!!

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   jansharesposted 10 years ago

   I had questions that hadn't received much play so I decided to choose 'best answer' and call it a day. The next day, everybody and their mother starting answering the question in a viral way. Last I checked, it generated 50 answers. I didn't get it. Anyway.  . .
   I would keep them up and open just to see what happens. It can't hurt, right?

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      paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for the idea. Nothing better to do, so I went and picked 2 best answers. Brake12 and BSloan will no doubt be happy campers. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

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   skearposted 10 years ago

   I haven't invested much time in Q/A yet.  I created a few questions to test the waters a bit but I haven't seen much traffic from them.
   
   Do you feel they are worth the investment of time?  What percent of questions seem to actually generate good traffic?

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      paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      It's generally not a pretty picture. I had over a 100 questions at one time. I'm now down to 26. And even some of those have had no visitors for 30 days. If a brilliant question comes to mind, and you have absolutely nothing better to do, post it; otherwise, I wouldn't give much time to it.

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      jansharesposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I agree. There are so many questions rolling out so fast that unless it's something people are really drawn to, it can get lost fast. I haven't had a lot of luck either except for the few on entertainment. People love that topic for some reason. I've had others do ok, but for the most part, it's not my forte. I need to spend more time writing hubs.

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         paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         Well, I went and posted an entertainment-related question. Give the search engine visitors what they want... LOL

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   SoundNFuryposted 10 years ago

   Q&A can be fun but since I usually feel inclined to at least comment when people have spent time answering them, I find it can be more time-consuming than really worth it.  I only have 15 questions and more than 90% of their total traffic comes from one question.  Go figure.

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   Marcy Goodfleischposted 10 years ago

   Twice, I have posted questions that coincided Panda or Penguin, and my traffic tanked, for my entire account.  In one case, last September, the decline clearly seemed to be related to posting a question.  Very frustrating!

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      paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Uh-oh. Thanks. If anything untoward happens, I'll know what to first suspect.

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   paradigmsearchposted 10 years ago

   Damnit! The pic I used in the question just showed up on my profile page. I'm doomed.

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   SoundNFuryposted 10 years ago

   You are now part of Snooki's World

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      paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      One thoughtless moment. And now my life is ruined. It's just not right.

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         SimeyCposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         You're lucky - Snooki moved into our village last year (and this year I think) - there I was going to try and get my beer on a Friday night and the store was inundated with kids and camera crews - they had the audacity to try and stop me getting in! These very big black guards looked very embarrassed when they told me I couldn't enter - but they couldn't legally stop me! We bought our beer, complained very loudly and left! Sadly they edited us out of the show!!!

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            paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            Well, someone answered my Snooki question. They went and copy/pasted wikipedia into it. Needless to say, I deleted it. There were no other responses.
            
            My Snooki question had a purdy pic and the intro was SEO'd. Was hoping to get a whole bunch of tidbit facts and hilarious opinions about Snooki. Ultimate goal being to kick Yahoo's Q&A ass in the serps. Such is not to be...
            
            Side note: This is not self-promotion. The question has been deleted and moved to another site far, far away...

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   paradigmsearchposted 10 years ago

   Ya know... I just might transfer my other non-engagement questions as well... Be interesting to see how the first one does. And for that matter, there are other sites that also have potential.

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   prettydarkhorseposted 10 years ago

   You can test it further Para

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      paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Actually, I did a Snooki hub a long, long time ago. That got nowhere either. Thus, my willingness to kill this latest experiment quickly.
      
      I'm going to continue doing Q&A experiments, both here and elsewhere. 100 Q&A's is still less work than just one QAP'able hub. The question is, will they result in any revenue potential?

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         prettydarkhorseposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         As long as you have the extra time then you can wait for further tests like test is quarterly. Only yahoo Q and A is being loved by the G.

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            paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            Yep, and it's been going on for years. There is no way that Google doesn't know that most of Yahoo's Q&A are total junk. Yet, there they are, top of page one, year after year after year...
            
            Makes me wonder if someone at Google and someone at Yahoo were dorm mates at one time...

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               prettydarkhorseposted 10 years agoin reply to this

               LOL

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    peachpurpleposted 10 years ago

    great idea. I am going to delete those questions that are not active. Thanks.

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    earnerposted 10 years ago

    I've not created more than 1 question .... I've answered some, extensively and well (IMHO) and had a sudden rush of traffic, that tailed to nothing, so then they showed as "not featured", so I figured it might not be worth the effort.
    
    I didn't know there was a potential income stream from Q/A, beyond creating a hub as an answer if you're stuck for inspiration.
    
    I did twice in the last couple of weeks decide to ask a question, but couldn't find where/how again.
    
    
    
    I do find navigation round Hubpages, finding information, etc, very confusing most of the time, so I stick with what I know (log in and start a new hub).

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    earnerposted 10 years ago

    I have, in the past, signed up for Yahoo Answers 2-3x ... and been banned each time for spamming - even though that last time I was deliberately not spamming (yet).... I was building up to that!!
    
    So, I've never understood why the cr4p answers weren't cut off in their prime if I'd "got caught" before I'd even started/

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