Yahoo Answers? Has it Been Effective for You?

[spotabusiness]

Has anyone used yahoo answers to draw traffic to your website?
If so, has it turned alot of results? Please let me know... thanks!

[SophieM]

It got me a few hits for some niche websites, but none of it really turned into quality traffic. I have had a lot of success using it for affiliate programs though.

[flnazrael]

Depends on the niche, but it can be useful.

[spotabusiness]

Well the niche is social networking. Its spotabusiness.com
I've been going in on the search engine optimazation part to answer questions. Is this all helpful

[flnazrael]

Yahoo Answers nofollows their links, but I've noticed that some of my answers have gone to copies of Yahoo Answers on smallbusiness.yahoo.com, and those links back to my site are not nofollowed.

So you may gain some link value from it in addition to any direct traffic/exposure.

My view of Yahoo Answers is similar to forum posting and link sigs - not much if any SEO value, but it's free marketing that can lead to targeted traffic, so it can't be a bad thing.

[MichaelMelen]

Yahoo Answers is great but you need to know how to use it.
Some people say they use it to help with backlinks but this doesn't make sense to me since their links or no follow.

[flnazrael]

Yahoo Answers nofollows their links, but I've noticed that some of my answers have gone to copies of Yahoo Answers on smallbusiness.yahoo.com, and those links back to my site are not nofollowed.

So there may be some SEO value after all - but this may change.

[gofrugal]

it has given me some clicks but not a lot though.

[jakecheck]

If you use it wisely you will get good result out of it. I 've seen good traffic to my site graph after I did some serious yahoo Ans.. lol

[MichaelMelen]

I paid someone $5 to answer all questions regarding proxies with my premade answer that listed my proxies. There were over 100 questions. I still receive hundreds of visitors from the answers. The account that made the answers didn't get banned. In face, it was promoted to Level 5.

[operaentre]

If you use it regularly and patiently definitely you will get good traffic.

I am using this from past one month and I got Awesome traffic to my site and there is no need of paying money on yahoo answers.

[flnazrael]

I paid someone $5 to answer all questions regarding proxies with my premade answer that listed my proxies. There were over 100 questions. I still receive hundreds of visitors from the answers. The account that made the answers didn't get banned. In face, it was promoted to Level 5.

I was thinking about doing this with an affiliate site I have... glad to hear it worked out well, I think I'll go ahead with mine too.

[Librazoe1982]

I paid someone $5 to answer all questions regarding proxies with my premade answer that listed my proxies. There were over 100 questions. I still receive hundreds of visitors from the answers. The account that made the answers didn't get banned. In face, it was promoted to Level 5.

$5 per answer?

[SashaMichelson]

It will only work only when you know how to play with it.

Absolutely no SEO benefit of rankings or in bound links. But if people are impressed, they may link back to your site with their site.

You use Y! answers for the link baiting purposes since it is full of catchy phrases and pitches.

Thank you

[flnazrael]

Absolutely no Search Engine Optimization benefit of rankings or in bound links.

I've gotten some dofollow inbound links from smallbusiness.yahoo.com because of Yahoo Answers that were syndicated over to that section of the site.