Yahoo answers to no one

Yahoo answers to no one: "Yahoo has recently launched Yahoo Answers which has been getting a lot of buzz around the blogosphere. The concept of Yahoo Answers is very similar to Google Answers. The Yahoo Answers section has a great design, but they have made some critical SEO and usability mistakes. Search Engine Optimization Yahoo has its own search engine and you would think that any little project that they release would at least be optimized to maximize their exposure to the search engines. Here are some of the major mistakes they have made: URLs are not search engine friendly. Currently the URLs are long and have tons of extraneous characters. The reason you want clean URLs is so the search engines can index all of the pages and rank them with ease. If you are going to use the meta keywords tag, the keywords should be more relevant to each page and less generic. A sitemap should be added so that pages can be crawled with ease. The site could be more section 508 compliant. They should also make better use of alt and title tags. Improve the use of headings tags. Usability Yahoo has "