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Helping your readers find the Answers (.com)
Answers.com, a free online reference site, has provided a way to link back to their answer pages.

First go to Answers.com and look up something. (In my example "Wicca")



On the left hand column you will find a "Page Tools" section.

Click on GreenLink.

This will take you to the "Link to this AnswerPage" page.

I like the Popup Greenlink option. Only I remove, target="AnswerQueryWindow". If I want to open a new page I’ll replace it with taget=_blank, otherwise I’ll let the link open in the same window.

Example Code:

<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/wicca" style="color:green;cursor:help;border-bottom:1px dashed;text-decoration:none;" target="AnswerQueryWindow" title='Look up "Wicca" on Answers.com'>Wicca</a>

Results in: Wicca

Another quick tip:
You can quickly look up things on Answers.com by just typing your search term after Answers.com/, http://www.answers.com/My Search Term. (Yes you can include spaces) Example: http://www.answers.com/wicca
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Answers.com provides content several different providers, including Wikipedia, Accuweather, and Google.
Not long after I posted this article Answers.com changed their layout a bit. The GreenLinks link is now on the bottom of the page instead of the side.