Yahoo answer no longer allowing live links

[it career]

Will you stop posting answers in yahoo now?

[Emie.]

No, because you don't have to post live links to get traffic on Yahoo Answers.

[it career]

No, because you don't have to post live links to get traffic on Yahoo Answers.

Can you please clarify, if you cannot post a live link means yahoo answer will generate ZERO traffic. No one will copy and paste your url from YA.

[vpguy]

if you cannot post a live link means yahoo answer will generate ZERO traffic. No one will copy and paste your url from YA.
If someone asks "Where can I go to learn more about xyz?" and someone responds "Go to http://www.xyz-site.com/", of course the person who asked the question will copy and paste the URL into the browser. So will others who are interested in learning about xyz.

I think it's a good move to weed out the crap and spam, and to provide higher-quality results.

[korr]

What? No links? Where can I find details of this update?

[gerwinjz76]

Probably I would. But is it really true???

[korr]

Yeah I'm checking it out all the links are deactivated and they're truncated so people can't even copy & paste the old links. Ahh well that was a huge waste of time. At least the links still seem to work on the profile page.

[Claudek]

Considering the truncated links, one would have to assume they would put the links back again. Also, it does seem to be a possible oops on their part. I was on the site about an hour ago and the links were definately live.

[angilina]

I dont use yahoo answers anyway, yahoo used nofollow tag, so live links r useless

[Proximity]

I think most people were spamming, thats the reason they dont allow

[korr]

Considering the truncated links, one would have to assume they would put the links back again. Also, it does seem to be a possible oops on their part. I was on the site about an hour ago and the links were definately live.

Hah you were right!

http://yanswersblog.com/index.php/archives/2008/02/07/yahoo-answers-link-update/

They are saying its an error, they are aware of it, and they're working to fix it ASAP.

[masoha]

Yahoo answers links are a good way to attract highly targeted traffic, it doesn't matter if links have nofollow attribute, they worth every minute spent answering questions.

[DannyBly]

ok - so I guess this was a mistake...I use Yahoo answers and I think it's a good tool...

[NsaneNoob]

When did they do this?

[korr]

Its baaaack. And they seem to have updated their blog with another lame post about evaluating sources. I know search engine types love an "authoritative source" but trying to limit the entire knowledge of the internet to a few domains will never work.

[oceanadsense]

the links are back. yahoo answers is a great tool for getting backlinks.

[kidbossman]

Ive had previous success with yahoo answers so I suppose thats great.

And anyway I suppose people who are totally Dependant on one source of income like yahoo answers shouldn't be. its a good lesson for them to learn

[microtekblue]

Who cares about yahoo answers...

Its a complete WASTE....

IF getting 5 visits is ideal for your web business, then you should care about yahoo answers lol.

OTHERWISE,,,yahoo answers is totally crap....and no one even clicks any outside links anyways.

STOP WASTING YOUR SEO TIME ON STUPID THINGS LIKE YAHOO ANSWERS!

[banker0679]

it's not SEO tricks...but traffic tricks

[microtekblue]

Traffic tricks??

Wut is that lol?

My point is that yahoo answers just sucks!

It will never give you any good traffic..and its a complete waste of time!

[banker0679]

i used to get 5-10 visits per day from them....then I looked into SEO..

You can get traffic from leaving comments on blogs all day long....but it's not going to build your search engine rankings when most of the blogs have 'nofollow' tags.

YahooAnswers is only good in some fields but not all. I have found easier ways to get traffic and to build backlinks for MSN, Yahoo, and Google.
They primarily work for MSN/Yahoo.

[Will.Spencer]

Hah you were right!

http://yanswersblog.com/index.php/archives/2008/02/07/yahoo-answers-link-update/

They are saying its an error, they are aware of it, and they're working to fix it ASAP.

Good to hear. Thanks for posting the official information. :)

[wallarookiller]

Traffic tricks??

Wut is that lol?

My point is that yahoo answers just sucks!

It will never give you any good traffic..and its a complete waste of time!

Ive had yahoo answers give me traffic from answers I've answered months ago were talking hundreds of uniques per question. I'm in the health care niche and trust me it works. I have top places on G for many of my main search terms but still get lots of traffic from those questions I answered over a year ago.

[yragcom1]

Who cares about yahoo answers...

Its a complete WASTE....

IF getting 5 visits is ideal for your web business, then you should care about yahoo answers lol.

OTHERWISE,,,yahoo answers is totally crap....and no one even clicks any outside links anyways.

STOP WASTING YOUR SEO TIME ON STUPID THINGS LIKE YAHOO ANSWERS!

It's about a LOT more than SEO. You'll get backlinks on YAhoo and MSN, but not on Google. But if you've got a niche, you can laser target your traffic to your site or offer. I LOVE Answers. I made over $10K with it, and it was the easiest money I've ever made on the web. I wrote a book about it, and what I did, if any of you want to check it out from someone who knows. To heck with backlinks, I'll take the Franklins (if you know what I mean!)

Yahoo Answers E-Book (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=708116)

[banker0679]

10k is pretty good!

[dona44]

im not use yahoo answer too because they arae using nofollow

[magda]

im not use yahoo answer too because they arae using nofollow
people really are a bit thick sometimes. Why do you want dofollow links? To increase PR? Why do you want to increase PR? To do better in serps? Why do you want to do better in serps?To get more traffic?
- so why not get a link somewhere that can give you a bit of direct targeted traffic?

[templatetuner]

Thats right Magda, its not the quantity of links but quality of links, its very simple: you want to rank high for a keyword? find a site/page that has high ranking for the keyword of choice and try to get a link off them.

thats it!!!

[Forumhorizon]

In my opinion that was a waste of money for the company to shell out to disable links and it really offers them little or no benefits.

[jackass2007]

Ah...that sucks, I'd notice it but never thought they would really do it :(

[wd_2k6]

offtopic but this thread overtook other sites and ended up #2 on google for "digitalpoint forums" how random

[korr]

Not totally random :) People on other websites are talking about it and linking in to it.

[jfarmer]

Not that I really want more competition on Answers, but Im converting at 1/17 from yahoo answers and with the 200+ questions I have answered, not all with links mind you, I get about 25-50 people a day from the links even ones from a year ago.

[northwest]

I started Yahoo answers 2 days back. It is OK... I got some traffic but less that what I expected.

The Yahoo posts themselves rank pretty high on for certain competitive keywords and the Yahoo posts themselves pretty quickly by Google.

[Zibblu]

offtopic but this thread overtook other sites and ended up #2 on google for "digitalpoint forums" how random

Google seems to be getting really stupid as far as what pages they pick to show for a search. For example I have a cat site that has a pretty active cat forum on it. site.com/forum ... but when you search for cat forum - my main site comes up site.com but not site.com/forum - both the forum and the main site both have a PR 4... I just don't get why Google is doing stuff like this. It really seems to me they've got so caught up with all of their filters that their results are suffering.

More and more I'm noticing just horrible results for searches that are important to me.

Another example is I've noticed them putting lots of forum profiles as very high results for some of my biggest keywords. Forum profiles! Ah... Anyway I guess this is quite a bit off topic, but the big G is really frustrating me lately. They don't even seem to make any sense anymore.

[Zibblu]

Not that I really want more competition on Answers, but Im converting at 1/17 from yahoo answers and with the 200+ questions I have answered, not all with links mind you, I get about 25-50 people a day from the links even ones from a year ago.

It makes sense to me that Yahoo Answer traffic would convert well... It's just the matter of slipping in your links without getting busted I suppose. It's hard for me to rationalize spending a lot of time on something that I think will eventually get deleted though.

[PaddyL]

... It's just the matter of slipping in your links without getting busted I suppose.
But surely if your links are from relevant, high quality answers, what would you be busted for?

[jazzdrive3]

But surely if your links are from relevant, high quality answers, what would you be busted for?

Not true. I spent about two weeks posting in Answers. About 30% of my answers were chosen as "Best Answer" out of 200 questions.

My reward?

Every single one of my answers deleted for not following community guidelines and a banned account.

But my answers were relevant, helpful, and informative and my lone links per answer were highly relevant as well.

All that work gone. I suspected someone had it out for me or something, because EVERY single thing I wrote was reported, even my Best Anwsers.

[Loonm]

what a pity i always had some links from them :/

[thunderbolt007]

As of now Yahoo detects many spammers doing on Yahoo answers that's the reason they don't allow to post live link anymore...

That's a sad one... But Yahoo answers drives traffic. Even it is a nofollow one.

[Agent.007]

this sucks

[homebizseo]

Links are working and provide great backlink rankings

[fr0gman]

I dont use yahoo answers anyway, yahoo used nofollow tag, so live links r useless

Define "useless"...

How can any link be useless? I use HubPages to promote tons of products and ALL of their links are nofollow and guess what.... I still get sales.

[SticKer]

Yes its true they have stopped allowing live link. I'm not sure when they stopped it but a month back when i was trying to post a link it didn't allow me to.

[fr0gman]

I just answered 10 questions all with links and they are working just fine.

[bobchrist]

I think you can add link without www or http.

[kingofsanda]

This is probably yahoo's way of fighting spam.

[NsaneNoob]

Someone Please Close This Thread As It Is A False One.

[korr]

It was true once upon a time, but it was fixed a within like a day. The problem is, people don't necessarily read the whole thread before posting in it! :rolleyes: