Where do you include the link to your site. Is there a problem with using your site as the source even if the information is not on the site?
Yes. You should only include relevant information when you cite something. Its a citation box, not an advertisement box.
I used Yahoo! Answers and only answers questions related to my site. I become the top contributor there. Sadly, I do not have much time to hang around there nowadays.
You can use it to get your site indexed within 5 days tops. If you post your link in an answer no matter how new the site is your site will be in yahoo within 5 days. I've tried this with 4 different sites so far and they have all worked.
As someone else said you may need to put in a fair bit of work to write a decent answer. Is the payback worth the effort? I've tried it once, can't say I got much traffic from it.
If you have relevant posts as answer matching with the question usually asked in yahoo answer you can place a link their as source.
Yeah, I've not used Yahoo Answers yet, either...but after this thread, I just may go and do a little of it.
Yahoo answers seems to be a great source of getting that valuable link and traffic from yahoo, the way bob mentioned above.
No, not really, it is straight forward. When you search for something, just go to the advanced search and choose the option so that the search will only bring up questions that still needs answers.
Yes, I am using Yahoo answers to promote the contents. If you are a good contributor of Yahoo answers with a considerable percentage "best answers" , certainly people will visit your site.
yes I've been using yahoo answers when doing some trending topics where I want my blog to appear on google top pages.but this is really tough you need a specific niche if you want to promote products using yahoo anwers.
I just used it a few days ago, but I found it is nofollow recently, no backlinks for me, only few traffics from it, I am going to quit.