Yahoo Answers for SEO?

[Nerdie]

Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

Anyone use Yahoo Answers to help in their SEO efforts? I have been ranked as the "Best Answer" for a few questions in my specific niche for a few websites and noticed some good quality traffic start to come in on a regular basis just from that.

Have any of you had any good traffic come from Yahoo answers or use it previously to try and build backlinks or traffic?

 

[Geoffrey]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

I've never thought of this, but this does sound like a nice way to get some backlinks and traffic. It's not like most of the questions there are overly difficult to answer, and they rank pretty high in search results too.

 

[Flexin]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

I started doing this about a week ago. I'm seeing a little bit of traffic from it. At first I didn't realize that you need to put http:// in front of your site address when you list it in the source. So on some of my early ones you can't click on. This makes it harder to track.

I have 14 best answers so far out of 55 answers. Not all are finished yet. I'm going to try tol so some every other day or so and see how it goes. I figure it can't hurt and it doesn't take too long to do.

James

 

[iPhonefreak]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

What are we talking about? Are we putting our URL in the question?

 

[Geoffrey]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

What are we talking about? Are we putting our URL in the question?

As the source, I believe.

 

[Anonymous User]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

Apparently, I think I got penalized by Google for doing this. I'd suggest you don't. It's a violation of their rules and I got like 50 violations from them (though not suspended yet).

 

[Flexin]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

Apparently, I think I got penalized by Google for doing this. I'd suggest you don't. It's a violation of their rules and I got like 50 violations from them (though not suspended yet).

You can do it but it has to be have something to do with the topic. You can't answer a question about where to find a good wedding cake and then put a link to your gaming forum as your source.

I answer automotive questions and post my site in that. In some I was able to go right to a thread that would explain and show what I was talking about. That is the best way to do it.

There are questions I answer that I can't put my link in and still be following the rules. But it gets me points which gets me closer to a higher level and also gives me answers that I'm not pushing my forum in.

James<br /><br />-- 26 May 2013, 20:44 --<br /><br />I have answered 55 questions and have 15 best answers so far. Only 7 of those have my link in them. Some have no link. a few have links to other sites that answer the question that was asked.

James

 

[iPhonefreak]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

I have done this a few times a year or so ago. It may explain why my Google PR is at 0.

 

[Adam Alan]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

Oh, its great info for me because i have no idea about getting this sort of traffic for my website. It is great effort for me...

Are you sure that yahoo answer will work as i like?

 

[xpl0iter]

Re: Anyone use Yahoo Answers?

I have tried it and I must say Yahoo answers is a good way for building a link from which the traffic flow simply doesn't stop. Every now and then a few hits are received on my blogs even from really old answers.

I have made an article about this.
Its here: how to Use Yahoo Answers for Link Building

 

[Nerdie]

I have seen numerous people and websites utilize Yahoo answers to get more organic traffic to their website. Have you done so? Is it effective? I have started to try it out recently and got one of my answers rated "best answer" which is bringing me in an extra 50 UV a day. I think if you get a few high traffic questions as best answer you could perhaps get some very good traffic from Yahoo Answers.

 

[jesse pitt]

I think this is very good tactic to get more traffic and I believe it is really so much effective.

 

[Nerdie]

I think this is very good tactic to get more traffic and I believe it is really so much effective.

I agree. I will continue to use Yahoo answers to help boost traffic. 🙂

 

[Quacker Jack]

I have never thought of this way, however, it sounds like a fantastic idea. As a big time questioner on Yahoo! Answers, I actually commonly check out the sources provided if it seems very relevant. Proper placement leads to higher amounts of organic traffic, and possibly new members. However, like we have said previously, it is crucial that your source is VERY relevant to the question. Otherwise, it is basically spamming.

 

[Salvinorin]

I have gotten a TON of traffic from doing this back in the day. Haven't done it anymore but it works very well for traffic if you do it right.

In my old forum yahoo answers was where all of my traffic was coming from.

 

[Jack~Rouse]

Don't spam it, or over use it, you will get blocked

 

[Rick Ace]

I actually did this for a very very old forum (even older than H5).

Yes, it actually works. 😛 Sometimes what I've done is created a topic on the issue, and then listing the topic as the source. Thus, I've placed my link as source in questions that have little relationship and was never penalized.

However, this was quite a while back. Yahoo Answers is definitely monitoring things much more. And Yahoo Answers doesn't give you a major SEO boast either. There are other places now that will give you better (and easier) results.

 

[Freebie eXchange]

I tried doing this a few years ago, and got banned from Yahoo Answers. I only answered relevant questions with relevant answers. Didn't pan out so well.

 

[Rick Ace]

I tried doing this a few years ago, and got banned from Yahoo Answers. I only answered relevant questions with relevant answers. Didn't pan out so well.

How long ago was this? Around 2007, getting banned was quite hard. 😛

 

[jacktheking]

Though of doing it before, but i never did it before.