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Is Yahoo Answers Still Effective On Backlink Building?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by GekiDan, Feb 6, 2013.

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    Is Yahoo Answers still effective on backlink building?
     
    GekiDan, Feb 6, 2013 IP
  2. wonay

    wonay Well-Known Member

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    Yahoo answers is not that useful for backlink building since the links are no-follow.
    However, you can get plenty of traffic to your websites or pages if you post relevant links as answers there.
     
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    seo_buzz Well-Known Member

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    Yes Yahoo Answers is very effective in backlink building, as it is a high authority site with Nofollow attribute. That helps to diversify your website's backlink profile and it looks more natural.
    Other than that you can get plenty of targeted traffic from Yahoo Answers.
     
    seo_buzz, Feb 6, 2013 IP
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    Black Fire Well-Known Member

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    If you write a good answer that gets "best answer" and you drop a link for your website in the "source" section of your answer, you can easily get a decent amount of visits.
     
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    indrianto Active Member

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    I think, Yahoo Answer is good 'backlink'. This is the natural backlink, when the natural traffic come to your site. Because they want to get good information from you. I think, all the ways that make people come to your site is the 'real backlink'. So create good answer and promote your site on yahoo answer, perhaps your site is really good answer for Yahoo visitors. :)
     
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    sasanko Active Member

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    Yes very much. its a great source of genuine natural back links. Additionally it brings you traffic.
     
    sasanko, Feb 6, 2013 IP
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    danasurvey Well-Known Member

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    No. The Yahoo Answers TOS forbids advertising.
     
    danasurvey, Feb 6, 2013 IP
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    Yahoo answers is a good source of traffic to your site. Specially when your answer pick as best.
     
    Jennifer C. Obert, Feb 6, 2013 IP
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    i think it's yahoo is the helpful method for get backlinks. many people use this.
     
    reaz.theprince, Feb 6, 2013 IP
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    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    yahoo answer is all the way nofollow, it not helping much in SEO but it helps alot on exploring your site and get traffic
     
    lifeplayer, Feb 7, 2013 IP
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    How can I get my answer picked as "best answer"?
     
    GekiDan, Feb 9, 2013 IP
  12. Jennifer C. Obert

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    Make your answer informative. You can include resources if you wanna.
     
    Jennifer C. Obert, Feb 10, 2013 IP
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    Mystique Well-Known Member

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    Who said that Yahoo Answer is (or was) good to build backlinks?

    This is probably one of the many Internet SEO myths running on the web.

    Nor Wikipedia nor Yahoo Answers are good for backlink building because these are services subject to review, whether by editor or community member that may flag and get erase what you are posting even without reason at all. In addition, there is no any benefit from a search engine standpoint either.
     
    Mystique, Feb 10, 2013 IP
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    Mystique you are right when you say it is a popular myth and you can get flagged. However, you can submit answers and put your website as the source for the answer and that is a totally valid thing to do. And then when people search up relevant keywords and your yahoo answers shows up (higher chance to get ranked), which can lead to people visiting your website.
     
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    Huh?

    So your saying that any backlinks you build, which are subject to a manual review are no good?!

    Getting a link from wikipedia is awesome and a great link, and I don't mean the 1000's of wiki links you can buy from fiverr, i mean wikipedia! so if thats what you meant you are wrong.
     
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    Mystique Well-Known Member

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    Don't get me wrong. Backlinks in either Yahoo Answers or Wikipedia are not only good, but probably a big achievement, but main problem is that such links may not be there for longer, and organic search usually leads to "a this answer was deleted" page rather than point to the page where the link was.

    Anyone can report an answer as spam, abuse or inappropriate answer, even those with no links but a sincere reply trying to help. I told you by own experience. As soon as your answer is flagged, Yahoo sends an email to make you aware that answer points have been deducted from your account and offering the chance to appeal, but at risk to lose 10 more points if your appeal fails to convince them.

    As for Wikipedia, anyone finding your link irrelevant to the topic is free to edit the entry and remove it. If nobody does it, eventually there are editors checking for irrelevant links dropped with backlink building in mind and such links are also removed.
     
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    Of course it is. 60% off my whole traffic to 3 websites come exactly from there. You just need to optimize it.
     
    Rolas, Feb 12, 2013 IP
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    hi there, there's a site that you can buy backlinks, try visiting SEOclerks.com for a cheap price
     
    snap shot, Aug 29, 2013 IP
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    Yahoo Answers links are marvelous for direct follow thru traffic, precisely because they are NOT SEO related. They provide an alternative source of visitors to complement or supplement SEO traffic. Depending on the set up of a site, many get as much, or more quality traffic from this direction than from ranking their sites for the search engines.

    As for "subject to review" it is simply a fact that most links and answers stay up. And the most devastating 'reviews' are happening on the SEO end, as Google keeps updating its algo to derank sites wholesale. Those still afraid of the impact on their own YA accounts can simply buy gigs on Fiverr where somebody else will post your answers plus links using their YA account. No risk to you in that case, other than $5.
     
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    Yes and no, just make sure to actually have good answers to the questions.
     
    Dionne Taylor, Aug 31, 2013 IP