Does yahoo answers convert well for you?

teckinik

Jul 21st 2009, 4:28 am

I didn't have much success with yahoo answers. Although I had hoped that it will convert well as people look for specific things but it looks 90% want free suggestion. What's your experience with Yahoo Answers.

Janck

Jul 21st 2009, 4:36 am

1 maybe 2 visits per good answer

~kev~

Jul 21st 2009, 4:55 am

No, yahoo answers give my site very little traffic. I run a forum and have found that people have posted links to me site in lots of yahoo answers - but the amount of traffic is very small. I dont think yahoo answres is in my top 50 or top 100 sources of traffic.

bermuda

Jul 21st 2009, 4:56 am

You can expect to have some traffic if you are a regular poster there because the pages are visited by a lot of people regularly.

Jenco

Jul 21st 2009, 4:58 am

for me yahoo answer works quite well, i have automated the yahoo ques/ ans step using a macro which runs the whole night while am sleeping.

About 75 % of the ques/answers are still there after 24 hours ! and it brings me targetted traffic which converts well for me .

navneetraj007

Jul 21st 2009, 6:00 am

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gullsinn

Jul 21st 2009, 6:23 am

if you are thinking that yahoo answers can make you good traffic you are wrong most of people are there for traffic they need traffic but don't make for others

lifeplayer

Jul 21st 2009, 6:24 am

Yahoo answer bring good targeted traffic for only certain niche.
Anyway, i happy with yahoo answer traffic

wazpy

Jul 21st 2009, 8:06 am

Yahoo answers might bring you an inbound link or two... but in general the population of Yahoo Answers is very immature and not serious about using it. Don't expect lots of good visits from it. It's visitors will probably be even lower quality than what you would get from Myspace, if you can believe it.

janecompersnews

Jul 21st 2009, 8:35 am

I find it more work than it's worth. I can get visitors but no sales out of Yahoo traffic.

lunaticg

Jul 21st 2009, 8:45 am

I am in level 2 in yahoo answer but still I don't have any single traffic from them. BTW, How do you automated the ans/ques thingy?

unknown101

Jul 21st 2009, 1:39 pm

nope not at all... 1/670

usearchme

Jul 21st 2009, 2:15 pm

lol yahoo answers is not for gaining traffic ! so why would u expect to gain some lol !

Woc

thewebhostingdir

Jul 21st 2009, 3:36 pm

You can not generate measurable traffic through Yahoo answers.

hiero

Jul 21st 2009, 3:37 pm

I get decent amount of traffic from yahoo answers. ezine has been my best source though

Jim4767

Jul 21st 2009, 4:24 pm

Last month's traffic from Yahoo Answers was 63 visitors. There are some links from Y/A going to a good number of my inner pages. All in all, I'm not sure it's worth the effort, personally.

webdude2000

Jul 21st 2009, 5:18 pm

My foray into using Yahoo Answers for traffic in the MMO niche was interesting but worthless as a traffic generator however for small targeted niches I can see it working.

Professional Dude

Jul 21st 2009, 5:52 pm

It always brings good visitors but conversation rate is not that high.

ngokhong20176

Jul 21st 2009, 6:31 pm

I never try but I doubt it since yahoo isn't very popular in this field, and I heard the rumor they cheat too.

lokimotion

Jul 21st 2009, 7:07 pm

Its decent for quick bursts of traffic. My latest answer generated 170 visitors in just over an hour, but only one conversion.

gordon08

Jul 21st 2009, 7:21 pm

I haven't had much success with Yahoo answers either. In my opinion, it is not worth the time and effort.

SpyrosPan

Jul 21st 2009, 7:31 pm

Hmm, not really well but i do post there sometimes

bluebelt91

Jul 21st 2009, 10:06 pm

I also don't have good percentage of conversion..
But sometime it may work!!

Affcoaches

Jul 21st 2009, 10:10 pm

Yahoo answers can convert very well but you need to follow a few practices:

1. Don't link to a landing page looking site. Something that is more informative and looks like a resource site does better. Sometimes iframing can work great too.
2. Certain niches just do not convert. Do 10 answers per niche, then move on. If you start getting sales from one niche then go back and do more.
3. Be consistent. It's not something that you will be instantly profitable on. Keep submitting answers day after day and slowly your income will increase.

Hope that helps :)

sugarlipz

Jul 21st 2009, 10:35 pm

While I don't get ALOT from Yahoo ANswers, I DO still get traffic from questions answered two years ago. It's nice to still see that, even if its only once a day.

mgn465

Jul 22nd 2009, 1:24 am

hm yahoo answer is the second source of my traffic, 1st is google..

It works great for me...

sarge4

Jul 22nd 2009, 6:46 am

Thanks guys, interesting thread. I have tried Yahoo answers, not a lot, but don't really seem to get the traffic. I did buy a report stating how you could make it work but haven't put it into practice - I am guessing that if a lot of other marketers also got the report - that it doesn't work too well as most people are using it as a traffic source .... oh well, back to article marketing.

kenny210392

Jul 22nd 2009, 6:48 am

ive never really used yahoo answers for advertising purposes....

i may get round to it but i wudnt have thought it would do very good as i run a dnb forum.

TheVccMatey

Jul 22nd 2009, 7:03 am

People use them mainly for backlinks!

animedbsellersz

Jul 22nd 2009, 7:19 am

its depends on the title of the question .. .if the question is frequently search from google ..a higher chance you will get a traffic from search engine . . .are you people expecting trafic directly from yahoo answers?? lol your all wrong. . . we can use yahoo answers to lure the search engine :P

gurukid22

Jul 22nd 2009, 7:22 am

Yahoo answers generates great traffic but the links are no follow and the traffic is not the best to convert, remember yahoo answers is know as the forum to ask dumb questions on (maybe to may kids) but it seems logical to not get high conversions.

Jim4767

Jul 22nd 2009, 7:58 am

hm yahoo answer is the second source of my traffic, 1st is google..

It works great for me...

mgn465, is it possible you are confusing Yahoo with Yahoo Answers? For many of us (me, too), Yahoo is second in traffic only to Google. But Yahoo Answers is different and for most of us gives very little traffic.

For example, last month I had 13,266 visitors from Yahoo, but only 63 visitors from Yahoo Answers.

erolelcott

Jul 22nd 2009, 8:35 am

Well, i pay people to help me with that yahoo answers thing...& it does work well for me by bringing in, significant amount of traffic.

animedbsellersz

Jul 22nd 2009, 9:24 am

its still depends on what niche are you trying to promote and remember to answer it only if its fix on your site category

enhu

Jul 22nd 2009, 9:37 am

it brings traffic if most of your answer is the best and links are also posted.

enhu

Jul 22nd 2009, 11:03 am

yahoo answers page are/will actually appear in the results page when people type questions in google like 'how tos'.

vntutor

Jul 22nd 2009, 12:25 pm

I got long-term visitors from that service

liftw8everyday

Jul 22nd 2009, 1:03 pm

I get a decent amount of traffic from YA, from answers that I submitted over 8 months ago. That account has since been disabled, but I still get a ton of traffic to a couple specific offers that convert pretty well. Some of the answers pages are actually as high as PR8, although the links are nofollow.

EC23

Jul 23rd 2009, 12:03 am

I no get some traffic from yahoo answers but not much, some of them would click on the ads.

Watson2

Jul 29th 2009, 11:58 pm

It depend on the answer you gave. More informative answer definitely yields traffic

Yardy009

Jul 30th 2009, 12:04 am

yahoo answer has changed its rules you need to get more than 250 points to post your link. so if you don't knw please check it.

arslan2201

Aug 6th 2009, 2:15 am

ya for me these are good.

markov

Aug 6th 2009, 2:31 am

It may generate some quick traffic but what matters is conversion. Yahoo Answers is poor at this.

J32

Aug 6th 2009, 4:02 am

yeah I'm getting traffic from yahoo answers. Its not that much but its traffic.

lifeplayer

Aug 6th 2009, 4:31 am

It may generate some quick traffic but what matters is conversion. Yahoo Answers is poor at this.

It is depend on the niche, you can get good conversion on games, wallpaper, free stuff niche

designknick

Aug 6th 2009, 5:26 am

I think that your conversion rates with Yahoo answers will depend more so upon the niche than anything. If you are promoting services to a more serious crowd, then your results will be better. So it depends on your product as well. If you are targeting "buyers" then you'll probably get a better response than if you were to go after people looking for free stuff.

You also should be sure that you are giving quality answers. While just posting a link might give one or two visitors, a high quality answer should give you some decent traffic. And of course, the more traffic you get, the more conversions you stand to gain.

lars.erik

Aug 6th 2009, 5:35 am

It can be good if you write a lot, but writing good articles is the best anyway.

davidstephen4u

Aug 6th 2009, 5:35 am

Yahoo answers are good but they drive less traffic..some times i feel, we get late responses...

teckinik

Aug 6th 2009, 5:43 am

if you are thinking that yahoo answers can make you good traffic you are wrong most of people are there for traffic they need traffic but don't make for others

This can be other major reason for low quality traffic.

teckinik

Aug 6th 2009, 5:44 am

nope not at all... 1/670

You are lucky to get even 1

teckinik

Aug 6th 2009, 5:45 am

lol yahoo answers is not for gaining traffic ! so why would u expect to gain some lol !

Woc

See it with the eyes of Internet Marketer then you will understand.

teckinik

Aug 6th 2009, 5:46 am

It always brings good visitors but conversation rate is not that high.

Yep getting visitors isn't that difficult but getting sales is where the problem arises.

teckinik

Aug 6th 2009, 5:48 am

Its decent for quick bursts of traffic. My latest answer generated 170 visitors in just over an hour, but only one conversion.

Then you should be happy about it 1/170 is really good as it is yahoo answers.

syedakram

Aug 11th 2009, 1:39 pm

got traffic but conversion no

kittyluver

Aug 16th 2009, 12:49 am

I am getting at least 5-10 visitors daily from Yahoo answers. But all depends on your niche. I have tried on make money online niche. It didn't work for me. But for pet niche, I am so successful with Yahoo! answers. Hope this will help you to choose...

Jen

Aug 18th 2009, 11:11 pm

I think with Yahoo Answers, people are going there for "answers" not to make a purchase. So it may bring traffic to your site, but not many conversions. Which seems to be the consensus here.

lifeplayer

Aug 18th 2009, 11:37 pm

I think with Yahoo Answers, people are going there for "answers" not to make a purchase. So it may bring traffic to your site, but not many conversions. Which seems to be the consensus here.

True. However, if you offer freebies, then different story.

Whirly

Aug 18th 2009, 11:41 pm