I use Yahoo answers about 30 minutes a day or so... it generates immediate traffic almost all the time. Once in a while, Yahoo pulls my answer and tells me I am not im compliance with their TOS. I almost always appeal because my answers are not spammy at all and I do try to offer good advice. If Yahoo tells you that you are not in compliance and yanks your answer, APPEAL! It works... here is an email I received from Yahoo: Hi Joe B, Thank you for taking the time to submit an appeal. Upon review, we found the following answer was not in violation of the Answers Community Guidelines: "The site below has many places that offer jobs and job information. He should make sure that his resume is up to snuff and start offering his abilities as a good employee ASAP." The Yahoo! Answers Team regrets that your answer was wrongfully reported by the Answers community. Your answer has been reposted to Yahoo! Answers, and we are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. As a result of your appeal, the people who reported your answer will have less influence when reporting abuse in the future. Thanks, Yahoo! Answers Team Please do not reply to this message. This is a service email related to your use of Yahoo! Answers. To learn more about Yahoo!\'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! Answers is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. Copyright © 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Terms of Service.
Yahoo Answers doesn't bring much traffic. It only generates some few hits. And I think is a waste of time if you stay and post answers for 2-3 clicks. I used it, but stopped now.
Yahoo answers will rank higher for less competitive keyword. It is a better way to gain more unique visitors. It might also end up in leads.
I never receive such email. I'm level 5 yahoo answer user so far, and no doubt it generate good traffic to my website/blog
Readers comes from Yahoo Answer are targeted well. They can be our royal readers if the content on your site is good enough. That's what we need
It really depens on what niche your targeting on whether or not you'll get banned. The make money online niche will get you banned real fast over there. But not by the people at yahoo, it's other marketers that will flag your post. As soon as I stopped posting in the make money online category I haven't been flagged since. There are a lot of niches over there that nobody leaves links in and are pretty much untapped. You can definitely make some money from them.
Hello, My account was suspended after answering my 1st 2 questions and asking just 1. I contacted them and asked them why and below is their reply. I have no idea what I did wrong. "We appreciate your inquiry about your suspension from Yahoo! Answers and/or the deactivation of your Yahoo! ID. We reviewed your case, and decided that your account is not eligible for reinstatement. Once an account is disabled for a violation of the Terms of Service, the subscriber to the account will lose the ability to log in and access the account and its contents (including email and content stored with any other Yahoo! service). The account also will not be reactivated. Should you choose to create a new Yahoo! account, we invite you to read the Yahoo! Terms of Service and Yahoo! Community Guidelines to help Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Answers.
Um, you can always create a new userid - and start posting again. This is greyhat/blackhat but you can also post a question as one user, wait several days to let other people respond and let your question age, then sign in as another user and respond to your own question. Then log in as the first username again and choose your own answer as the best response. Works like a treat. I get nice yahoo answers traffic consistently. Dan
Oh man I have been banned from yahoo answers about 5 times...and the appeals never work! Yahoo answers is great for converting and driving a little traffic. Be ready to be banned though if you use it for Selling a product, driving traffic, or SEO purposes.
Yahoo answers are certainly nofollow. Even the latest Yahoo Buzz is also nofollow. Just for the sake of traffic, we can use Yahoo Answers.