Q&A Hack

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   theraggededgeposted 7 years ago

   I've had these two unwanted (irrelevant and silly) Qs hanging around and they won't go away, even when I hide them. So I decided to edit them to ask useful questions instead. And, I'm going to do the same with all the others that show up like that. Use the opportunity to put in my own question that could be useful to readers.
   
   So instead of deleting/hiding them, use them for good

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      wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I've changed some questions I couldn't understand what was being asked into what I thought they might be asking, and then answered that.

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         DrMark1961posted 7 years agoin reply to this

         You should pat yourself on the back for being such a good person and doing that. I get frustrated reading so many questions that I cannot understand and just end up deleting them!

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      DrMark1961posted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I have not done so and am not sure it would work, but if you have a question that you feel would be useful couldnt you also do in to the hub without signing up and ask it? It would be a lot more hassle than the hack you are describing, but maybe it would be helpful and get things going on those hubs that have had no questions and few comments.

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      RoadMonkeyposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      This is useful and thought provoking because I didn't even know about this. It looks well worth while investigating it and trying out your beta program!

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   DrMark1961posted 7 years ago

   Another hack that might help:
   When asked a question I hestitate about putting a "yes" or "no" right at the beginning of the answer. There are two reasons for that. I want anyone interested to read the answer and learn, and if the interested person is in a hurry they might just look at the "yes" and not bother with the rest of the answer.
   The other reason is because of page views. If someone just sees a "yes" or "no" they are not going to open up the answer and read it. That will mean less traffic to the question and answer page.

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   theraggededgeposted 7 years ago

   Well they're showing fine I'm going to work on the ones I've got and turn them into mini-hubs with at least a hundred words. It seems you can post links too, to related articles.

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      DrMark1961posted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Do you mean you are making a mini-hub out of the answer?

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         theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Yes, I'm going to give it a go. If they have separate pages with potential earnings (and I've just been informed by email that ads are now turned on on the Q&As), then they may as well be as good as they can be. Also they need to be intriguing enough to get people to click through to the main article. Fun.

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            DrMark1961posted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Great idea. I think you are onto something very worthwhile for your readers, and for you too if you include links to other articles they can read and learn more about the subject. Please post again about how your results are with this new "theraggededge beta program".

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               theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

               All right, I will. For now, I've just gone back in and made the answers a bit longer and friendlier. It's great that you can go back to them and edit as you wish. Well worth adding to over time as you benefit twice over.

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   Sue Adamsposted 7 years ago

   I cannot see any questions on my articles do you have to be logged out to see the feature or what?

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      theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Have a look on your stats page. If they are enabled on your niche site articles, you'll see a Q&A tab on the grey bar at the top.

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         Sue Adamsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks, I guess they are not enabled.

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         Jean Bakulaposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Many people find me on Google, and I get around 2 or 3 hours worth of comments to answer each week. Around 75% of them regard my Astrology hubs. I do my best to answer them, because they often lead to paying clients for me, although it's a balancing act. I can't break the TOS here, but if they contact me from my profile page, at my personal email address, I feel it's fair game.
         
         I also get many who try to take advantage of me by cutting and pasting planets and the signs they get from another site, and ask rudely, "What can you tell me about my horoscope?" When I cast a horoscope, that's not the info I need to do it, and when I have the right info, I need about 8-10 hours to cast a chart and interpret it, it's almost 20 pages. I can't do that for free. Or in one day. It's my personal interpretation.
         
         But I am still getting many comments each day, and got only one on Q&A, so inane it wasn't even worth trying to rewrite it into a coherent question and answer it. So far, the Q&A and comment section seem like they should be consolidated into one page. At least in my case.
         
         I discussed this with Emily when she invited me into this beta program, but she suggested I write a disclaimer on every Astrology hub. I'm not doing that. Even though some of the people want something for nothing, I would be insulting real, possible clients. Or just regular, nice people who have good questions; the audience has become more sophisticated over the years.
         
         Is the Q&A one continuous page, where I could put a little disclaimer on top that I can't cast a whole Astrology chart in a section like that, and for free? There are many questions I can answer. But so far this is a losing proposition for me and many are used to reaching me at the comments section (which I believe is collected from questions at the comments section of individual hubs)?
         
         Any suggestions about what I should do?

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            theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Have a look at 'How to Read Tarot with Playing Cards' and you can see how it looks when there are several questions. I added a 'get lost, I'm not giving you a free reading..' too.
            
            It does seem to mean that people are going straight to the questions and ignoring the comments section underneath.
            
            Two of those questions were originally requests for readings, but I edited them into something more useful. You can just completely delete their question and write your own. I shall continue unless I'm told I can't do it. After all, unlike the comments, the questioner's name doesn't appear.

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               Jean Bakulaposted 7 years agoin reply to this

               I'll give it more time.
               
               I can't even make a normal question out of a list of planets in signs and a rude, "What can you tell me?" I can tell them you pay for something when you buy it, except not on HP, it would be against the rules.
               
               So aren't the questions originally at the comments sections of our individual hubs? That's how the comments worked. Is Q&A different in that respect, is there a spot a reader goes to that's not our hub? I keep being told to ask anything, but never get answers. Except from you .

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                  theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

                  They are two different features. Separate sections: Q&As come under the article but before the comments. Comments can't be edited, but Q&As are completely under the hubber's control. You can delete the original question and change it to something more relevant. There are no names, so the questioner doesn't see that you haven't replied to them.
                  
                  Yes, questions can be picked up by Google and are displayed on their own page with a link to the article: https://pairedlife.com/question/how-to- … ally-loves Or they can be read on the hub itself.
                  
                  Have you had a look at the hub: How to Read Tarot with Playing Cards? You can see how it looks to the reader.

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                     Jean Bakulaposted 7 years agoin reply to this

                     Ahh-
                     Now I see, said the blind woman! So in the end, comments and Q&A will appear on the hub, I think? I was living in a hotel during a week long power failure when I was invited to use this feature, and apparently my brain is just catching up.
                     
                     Thank you for always being so helpful. Great article, by the way.

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