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madbry
Jan 18th 2007, 8:42 am
Upon learning that Yahoo Answers are an authority site, I started posting answers to questions where I could use one of my webpages as a "source," thus planting a link.

I started this about a month ago, and my SEO software still shows no backlinks from Yahoo Answers, not even a "no follow" link.

Does anyone know what is going on here?
mad4
Jan 18th 2007, 8:46 am
They are spidered (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fanswers.yahoo.com%2F&btnG=Search&meta=).

Links are nofollow though.
top9
Jan 18th 2007, 5:41 pm
Thanks for your reply
edr
Jan 18th 2007, 6:22 pm
They may hold value for traffic building if you are quite active, though.
Yfcadmin
Jan 20th 2007, 12:38 pm
Yes Yahoo Answers is well spidered.
bluemouse2
Jan 20th 2007, 12:54 pm
Yes, as far as I know
sukantab
Jan 20th 2007, 10:16 pm
They should be... Make a post and search in google to see if it is available or not
KeithCash
Jan 20th 2007, 11:21 pm
Yes, as far as we can tell.

Cheers
gatewayink
Jan 21st 2007, 5:45 pm
Yes, they are spidered.
steveb
Jan 21st 2007, 5:52 pm
They are spidered (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fanswers.yahoo.com%2F&btnG=Search&meta=).

Links are nofollow though.

Oh...darn...didn't know they were "nofollow". You mean I answered all those questions for nothing?!? :rolleyes:
oseymour
Jan 22nd 2007, 12:14 am
you didn't answer them for nothing because Yahoo answers can bring you some decent traffic if the link you post is relevant.
PoemofQuotes
Jan 22nd 2007, 7:46 pm
It will definitely bring in traffic even if they are nofollow. Whenever someone visits that page and see that your website was used as a best answer, you easily gained a new visitor.
autorave
Jan 22nd 2007, 8:23 pm
almost all public forums or discussion areas use nofollow. Try getting the search status firefox extension so you'll get a pink box over the links.

Don't use the same message over and over again on Yahoo Answers.. you'll get banned for spamming. Saw it happen to some people.
Pat Gael
Jan 22nd 2007, 9:29 pm
I was doing a research a few days agot that lead me directly to yahoo answers, indexed by Google.
Navigator
Jan 23rd 2007, 8:10 am
Upon learning that Yahoo Answers are an authority site, I started posting answers to questions where I could use one of my webpages as a "source," thus planting a link.

I started this about a month ago, and my SEO software still shows no backlinks from Yahoo Answers, not even a "no follow" link.

Does anyone know what is going on here?
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madbry
Jan 24th 2007, 12:52 pm
To answer my own question: I just found out the links are no-follow through some software I am using. (I just realized I was analyzing backlinks for the wrong page - that's why it was showing no links at all from Yahoo Answers). In one month I think I have gotten one visitor through a Yahoo Answer. Not worth my time.