Does Y! Answers, in fact, suck?

Deane at Gadgetopia thinks so. http://gadgetopia.com/post/6210

Link-post for an article on Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2179393/nav/tap3/?sid13

I'm inclined to agree. I've never found Answers very useful as a consumer.

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Don't exactly know what you mean..Yahoo answer is a very good promoter for me..

 

I get nice traffic from Y answers.
I have a couple of members on my site that are Y-answer addicted and I go there quite often

 

I get great sales from yahoo answers if you get the right product and just really focus on help the person who ask a question then you can easily make $200 a week

 

Depends on what you're expecting from it. It would be ludicrous to attempt to use it as a any kind of serious research tool.
(an example of how silly it is, yesterday someone asked a question I knew the answer - not in my 'niche', I wasn't plugging anything, I just knew the answer. He got 2 other answers - someone else saying basically the same as I did, - so that's 2 correct answers and someone posting "I've always wondered about that too" - the asker ignored the 2 people telling him what he wanted to know and voted the other person who didn't know as 'best answer" *shrugs*)

BUT - if you just treat it like chat-room with a specific structure, drop in a few links, don't obviously spam, answer some things when you're not just promoting your own site - it can be useful.

I've got a side-project I haven't got round to doing any real work on. In fact the only - the ONLY - promotion I've done on it so far is answering a yahoo question with a link to it, and for about 2 months I've been getting about 75 visitors a day from that and that alone.

 

yahoo answers got exactly what you need to know, just browse for the answer that best fits you.

 

This thread was helpful, I didn't really know that you could get traffic from it.

 

I think it depeneds on the questions bein asked, sometimes you get some terrible answers from idiots, other times it can be handy !

Woc

 

If you want to advertise your site, look for related topics and post sensible answer with your link.

 

Good ideal!

 

its not good for seo but is good for free traffic, but you must do it everyday or nothing will happen

 

I think it is a very good tool for finding info but not seo. Similar to the benefits of wikipedia.

 

You could always create your own questions and if you're sneaky provide your own answers

 

^ Correct .....

 

whats your niche?

 

I got members for my proxy newsletter from it so its decent from proxy webmasters.

 

I have actually been able to pull quite a few list signs ups and clients using Answers & actually many good sales from 3-4 different niches.

 

For me not much much traffic, allot of work and only good for back links in my opinion.

 

its rubbish! dont use it!