Mar
Answer Sniper - Bringing Even More Spam to Yahoo Answers
Another one of my favorite gurus is at it again! Duncan Carver, creator of the useful (and free) Comment Sniper software, has released a brand new piece of software called Answer Sniper.
If you couldn’t guess, it’s aimed at Yahoo Answers, which happens to be a good way to drive traffic to your site if you contribute useful answers. (Basically you answer people’s questions in your field of expertise and leave a link back to your site if applicable.)
But bringing this software for automating your answering into the internet marketing realm is just asking for spam…
And there you have it, a great example of the spam increase! Thank you Duncan Carver for bringing a ton of extra spam to Yahoo Answers. I can see it already - generic answers posted on every question, with the obligatory self-promotional link.
One jackass (seen above) comes to Yahoo Answers, and in response to a dieting question, leaves an idiotic response. I simply reported it and it was removed immediately… (which put a smile on my face, knowing that someone bought $97 spamming software and isn’t getting their money’s worth 
)
But as easy as that was, I’d prefer not to have so much spam…
Sure, you can use the software for legitimate uses, but the people doing that (i.e. answering Yahoo Answers questions legitimately) probably just use the RSS feeds Yahoo Answers provides for each topic, for free. If you do that, there’s no need for this software.
Again, another example of expensive software that makes things harder than the available free methods!
Although with such a long sales letter with small font, very few spammers will bother reading it. I sure wouldn’t. Would you?
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Man, before bashing at any software, do a little homework and find out what it really does. If you don’t have time to read the long sales letter, where do you get the time to write a post the bash it?
Answer Sniper doesn’t automate anything, it just makes the job of legitimately using Yahoo Answers as a means to drive traffic to your site, faster, more convienient and organized. It notifies you of new questions for keywords you subscribe and let’s you post your answer thru the software so you don’t have to log in to yahoo every time.
It offers links for you to click on to do research on the questions you are viewing.
It never automates multiple posts for you, all post are done manually. It just allows you to create multiple profiles to manage multiple keywords, and keeps a log of all answers you have made (good for outsourcing the job).
The yahoo answer spam problem comes from the spammers, not this software. Spammers won’t pay $97 to do spamming a bit faster and more organized, they can do all that on yahoo answers directly, this software is for people interested in using it long-term to produce results.
I’ve been using it for a while and it’s good software, I just don’t like reading stuff like this from people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
LMAO! It doesn’t automate anything, it just makes it so you don’t have to go to Yahoo Answers to browse and answer questions? Yeah man, get a dictionary…
“the technique, method, or system of operating or controlling a process by highly automatic means, as by electronic devices, reducing human intervention to a minimum”
If Answer Sniper didn’t automate anything it would do a grand total of… nothing!
Dude, get some elementary school guide on reading.
Automating like you so nicely pointed out means letting a device do it for you. In this case, Answer Sniper acts like an alternative browser, instead of typing it in the browser, you type it in the program. If you don’t type it and click post (like you would in the browser) it doesn’t post. Tell me Mr. Sucker, in this case what is AS doing for you that the browser doesn’t, other than logging you in to Yahoo Answer. And if its logging in automatically that you have a problem with…oh yeah, I see where that could lead to serious spam.
My point is, since your ranting about spam…you make it sound like AS automates making thousands of posts automatically for you without the user even reading the questions…and thats just not what it does. You read you answer…the difference is, you know exactly when to answer to be the first to answer, and you can manage you progress in multiple niche…
Now if you can tell me how that encourages spam as opposed to making legitimate yahoo answer marketers lives easier…do say something worthwile, for a change
You are repeating exactly what I already said in my post. It’s expensive software that doesn’t do much more than what you can easily do for free with the Firefox browser and an RSS feed reader.
That was my point in the first place, so thank you for restating it. Just like the last piece of software I wrote about (i.e. it’s supposed to automate everything but it’s actually slower than doing it the free way.)
Also, how about you ask Duncan Carver about automation. Or better yet, take a look at this post on his blog:
http://www.commentsniper.com/news/archives/14
Oh, what’s that, is that a post title of “Automated Marketing On Yahoo Answers…” which states “Answer Sniper will automate 99% of your Yahoo Answers marketing.” ????
I think so. So you’re actually disagreeing with the creator himself, not me.
Thanks for stopping by and please read my explanatory posts (linked in the sidebar) before leaving any more comments.
Hi Guys,
Duncan Carver here.
I think there has been some misunderstanding about what Answer Sniper actually does.
It DOES automate 99% of your marketing on Yahoo Answers.
Above and beyond everything else it does, it will notify you the moment any new questions have been posted in the niche areas you are interested in. Thus allowing you to be the first to Answer… gaining greater exposure. It has many more features than that, but that is a key feature.
It IS NOT a spamming tool.
It automates everything except writing and posting answers to those questions. If a user wished to answer a question, they still need to write the answer into the software and post it to the Answers website via the software manually (which works exactly the same was as posting via the actual Yahoo Answers website itself).
I don’t know how to make it any clearer than that.
The only way this can be used as a spamming tool, is if a spammer decides to use it to post spam. They can of course decide to spam directly on the Answers website itself so there is absolutely no difference.
From a marketing perspective, Answer Sniper will automate the management of the entire marketing and monitoring process making life that much easier for anyone using Yahoo Answers. It provides the same functions as “Comment Sniper” (blog monitoring and comment posting) but focused on Yahoo Answers.
If you spam on Yahoo Answers you are wasting your time, it’s as simple as that.
Best…
Duncan Carver
Hi Duncan, thanks for stopping by. I agree with your comment 100%. Dominique was putting words in my mouth.
In case anyone is still in the dark, there were two points to my original post:
1. “But bringing this software for automating your answering into the internet marketing realm is just asking for spam” means that spammers who might not have known about Yahoo Answers will now know about it, and be more likely to go spam there, even if they aren’t using Answer Sniper.
2. If you don’t want to buy the software, you can keep tabs on Y.A. topics via the RSS feeds, free of charge.
I’m trying to think of _one_ $47/97/147 program like these I’ve bought over the years, that I’m still using.
I might even go so far as to say that if there’s a $47/97/147 program targeting a particular marketing trick, that trick is done to death. Or soon will be.
Plus there’s always the possible bonus of getting your site banned, or hosting taken down.
“I might even go so far as to say that if there’s a $47/97/147 program targeting a particular marketing trick, that trick is done to death.”
Yep. That gives me an idea for a post
This is one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a while. Why is Dominique so fervently defending this this software anyway? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone so adamantly defend a piece of software as frivolous as this before in my life.
LOL I wondered the same thing myself! It’s so funny, I hope he stops by again
Ha. Thanks for letting everyone know about RSS feeds in Yahoo Answers. I was selling a ebook on DP about Yahoo Answers a while back, and Mr. Carter himself came on my thread, wanting to secure the rights to my book as a add-on to his software. I had the same objections that you are mentioning now.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=708116&page=3
Answers is SO easy to male money with if used correctly, it’s criminal. Thanks for letting people know about this “software”.
@yragcom1
Very interesting! Your book was surely the better value anyway, as I have already shown Answer Sniper is worth about $0.00 since you can easily automate everything without it.
Thanks for stopping by
wow, you must be psychic or something cuz there’s no proof that answer sniper was used in the ’spammy post’ above.
you might not be aware of this, but there are other scripts out there that will post on to yahoo answers, in fact any 15 year old with programming knowledge can write a script that will spam any site.
To think that it was answer sniper that spammed yahoo is incredibly naive on your part.
Maybe you use answer sniper to spam yahoo. But i don’t. But you can’t say that answer sniper was used in this case.
You know what they say about people that ASSume, right?
I bought answer sniper and it rocks big time
@yeah sure
I never said that spam post came from Answer Sniper; I just said it was an example of spam on Yahoo Answers. So you are the one assuming.
Although you were right about one thing - I am psychic.
Yah, but people are lazy and don’t want to find other ways of doing something so they just pay for software that does what they can do for free, because they think they will become super rich with the internet so they spend tons of money.