I keep hearing about all the great success stories for yahoo answers, such as great quality traffic and backlinks, so I decided to give it a try. Found a few questions in my niche, got the Accepted Answer, then discovered that the link in my resource box are marked as "nofollow"? I guess building backlinks this way is out of the question. Was this common knowledge, because I hadn't read anything that mentioned it.
From what I heard it's more of getting target audience to click the links and not so much on link building (at least for google - yahoo and msn will still count it).
When you give the correct answer (ie it is chosen or voted as the best answer), you can expect to get traffic. Now the volume of traffic depends on what the niche is and how many people are searching for it. In effect, you are getting a targetted audience and if the volume is good enough, can make good money out of it.
There's also anecdotal evidence from a number of SEO's that Yahoo Answer traffic can be relatively high quality (as in people who click through from the answer page are more likely to stick around and browse through other pages) Dylan
Even if Yahoo Answers doesn't apply the nofollow attributes, it's a great way to market your website to targetted audiences. Just don't overdo it and post your URL all over the place because Yahoo may ban your account.
Just be careful about including your link in every answer. I know several people who, despite being chosen as best answers several times, got their account pulled by Yahoo. The suspicion is it's a competitor who got jealous and reported them to Yahoo. I do wish Yahoo would scratch the backs of those that scratch theirs a little bit and allow your user id to be linked to a website. I don't see what the big deal is. If I am taking the time and posting a well thought out answer, why shouldn't I be able to advertise my site? It's perplexing. Jason
I would always place good traffic above backlinks. Because what are backlinks without people actually trying to use your site?
I think it will help more on traffic rather than backlinks, to get good success prevail human touch answering the questions.
I have had many visitors to my websites through links which I posted in Yahoo answers and they contributed to my Adsense income.
Thanks for the input. I have yet to get much traffic from them, but maybe I just need to step it up a notch.
I used to do a lot of Yahoo Answers before, nowadays not so much. It's true that you won't gain squat as far as building backlinks, but even today I still get a few visitors here and there from yahoo answers even though it's probably been a half year since I answered a question. It's all about helping out other people in your answers.
My 30,000 hits from 1 answered question on Yahoo Answers in a 1.5 months does make your statement an odd one... How much traffic must one get to make it worthy?
Well may be you can teach me something on that then That was the scenario in my case. I never heard anybody get that much traffic from yahoo answers.