{"id":35,"date":"2011-12-06T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2024-07-23T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:33:26","slug":"yahoo-deletes-75000-associated-content-articles-moves-rest-to-new-yahoo-voices-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/yahoo-deletes-75000-associated-content-articles-moves-rest-to-new-yahoo-voices-site","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Deletes 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Moves Rest to New Yahoo Voices Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a devastating move, Yahoo cleaned up associated content by deleting tens of thousands of articles. The keepers have been moved to Yahoo\u2019s domain and the site has been given a new name as well. Also, Yahoo has plans of starting an online training course to help out writers with higher quality content.<\/p>\n<p>The search engine announced to \u201cretire\u201d more than 75,000 articles and retain only the best content submitted over the past 7 years, moving the remaining ones to a new site, Yahoo! Voices (www.voices.yahoo.com). In the process, some new submission guidelines have also been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The move is said to be an after effect of the Panda Update. Yahoo VP Luke Beatty says that two-thirds of this \u201cretired\u201d content had suffered sizeable declines in Google Traffic while the other one-third was getting more Google Traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to delete this content was taken after the search industry tried out to sort out Panda\u2019s Winners and Losers, in which associated content ranked inevitably.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo plans to launch the Yahoo! Contributor Academy early next year, an \u201cinteractive learning program\u201d with lessons and tools to help writers create \u201cuseful and engaging online content\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Contributed by:<\/span><br \/>\nIDS Logic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a devastating move, Yahoo cleaned up associated content by deleting tens of thousands of articles. The keepers have been moved to Yahoo\u2019s domain and the site has been given a new name as well. Also, Yahoo has plans of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}