Comments (7)

1. • doublehead

   I tried the Yahoo Answers trick but all it did was set me up with a feed for all questions or latest questions. I couldn't get it specific for my niche. Trying to set it up in Bloglines.

   • (0 Kudos received)
2. • BurntToast

   @doublehead any search you perform on Yahoo Answers has a RSS feed at the bottom that relates specifically to the search you performed. If you're getting a lot of weird data, make sure you've used the advanced search options to limit your search to 'questions' (not 'all' which is default and often returns a lot of useless results).

   If you need to filter your results further, you can always select a specific category for it to search in rather than searching across all of them... although for the several RSS search feeds I've set up, I've found searching across all categories to be fine.

   • (0 Kudos received)
3. • doublehead

   @BurntToast

   I did all that. The page on Yahoo opens up with just the questions I'd be interested in, but when I click on the rss button and subscribe to Bloglines I get everything.
   I'll try again later.

   • (0 Kudos received)
4. • BurntToast

   @doublehead I've just done some more checking, and it seems there are issues when you enter multiple keywords... eg. do a search for: how marketing, and everything works as expected, but try: how "internet marketing" and the search results look fine, but the RSS feed is empty, remove the quotes: how internet marketing, and the raw search is again fine, but the RSS feed goes back to a search on both Q+A instead of just Q... seems to be a bug in yahoo answers - I think I'll report it :)

   But for now looks like you'll only be able to setup an RSS search for a maximum of two search terms (one of them being the questino modifier).

   • (0 Kudos received)
5. • doublehead

   @BurntToast

   Well at least I know its not me :)

   Thanks

   • (0 Kudos received)
6. • BurntToast

   @doublehead on further reflection, it's only if you use quotes where it doesn't work (eg. how "keyword1 keyword2"), multiple keywords do work fine, but you've got to make sure you always go back to the advanced search form each time you do a search... starting with the advanced search form, and then doing another search via the regular search form on the results page will lose the focus on questions only and return a heap of useless results.

   eg. here's a link to the rss feed for: how internet marketing
   http://answers.yahoo.com/rss/searchq?p=how+internet+marketing&pn=&ps=1&tab=0&scope=subject&mc=&asktime=

   • (0 Kudos received)
7. • doublehead

   @BurntToast

   Yup, that worked! Thanks for your help :)

   • (0 Kudos received)

Add Your Comment 5 Keyword Research Tips to Finding the Questions that Interest Your Readers

Login now to post your comment.