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I post at SearchCommander.com now, and this post was published 17 years 1 month 20 days ago. This industry changes FAST, so blindly following the advice here *may not* be a good idea! If you're at all unsure, feel free to hit me up on Twitter and ask.

I get a lot of e-mails asking questions, and I frequently turn my replies into articles. That’s actually how my SEO 101 section came about long ago.

Replying can be quite time consuming, but not replying might be seen as rude, so I’ve now come up with a great compromise that adds a sort of “Web 2.0” aspect to my site, and helps me easily generate new content.

Since I had this idea, I’ve been playing with a certain plug-in for a long time, and just today decided to buckle down and make it work. If you look over to the left on my blog menu you’ll see a new link for Ask Scott.

It’s an FAQ plug-in and it’s really pretty cool. For every question that gets asked, I get an e-mail notification, along with a link to log in to my own blog and answer the question.

Upon my answering, a new page is created and added to my blog, and the FAQ question page is updated. Each new question page is created with subject specific link text, title tag, H1 tag etc. and even added to my XML site map.

The sender of the question is then notified with a copy of the answer, as well as a link to the specific page where the question is displayed, where they (and others) can give the answer a thumbs up or down.

The only recommendation I’ve got for the creators of this FAQtastic plug-in would be to allow an option for the use of a post for each new question answered, instead of a static page. This would encourage comments and further discussion on each particular question asked. Otherwise, great job guys, and thank you…

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