Yahoo Answers has been a staple of the internet for over 15 years, since June 28, 2005. Now, Yahoo is going to close it and not really provide an archive, like when they closed the Yahoo Directory – another piece of internet history. Yahoo Answers will go offline May 4th – I wonder why that date. 🙂

We wrote about Yahoo Answers here a lot in the early days, when it was something SEOs used to gain links or rank for content. But like I said, it has been years since I wrote about it and years since I even thought about it.

Some folks in the SEO industry wonder if now that Yahoo Answer’s content will be out of the way, will we have more room to have our content rank.

John Mueller of Google responded to that on Twitter saying “I don’t have high hopes if Yahoo answers was a serious competitor for your sites…”

How will I remember how to boil an egg? I guess Google got that covered?

In short, I doubt Yahoo Answers got convertible traffic in ages and I guess that is why they are shutting it down.

This is the email Yahoo sent out about this news:

Here is a screenshot of the home page so we have it here (click to enlarge):

Yahoo posted an FAQ on the closure of Yahoo Answers over here.

Forum discussion at Twitter & WebmasterWorld.