I'm thinking to join Yahoo Answers and try my best to answer to some questions and where possible, insert my backlink. How effective is this? Do you guys prefer Yahoo Backlinks?
I like almost any backlink linking to my website if it does not hurt my website's rankings. Well, you can't get a backlink from Yahoo Answers so easily, links you put in your answers are nofollow and does not impact rankings. They'll all be turned into dofollow once you have leveled up. Go on, post more useful answers and level up If you'd like so. Isn't worth the time you spend, try building backlinks somewhere else If you'd like to hear from me.
Well if you answers are truly useful, you might get some traffic to your website. At the end of the day backlinks don't make you money, traffic does.
yahoo links are useful in my opinion,its softwares out there that automates the whole process with many accounts at the same time lol
I remember I have read at somewhere that backlink at yahoo answer is highly appreciated. I will try it for my site.
From http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/276059/you-have-one-chance-to-make-a-good-first-search-im.html: "One way to further control the conversation is to engage in the conversations that happen beyond the areas you control. Answering questions on Quora, Yahoo Answers or industry message boards gives you an air of authority, which can lead to more positive mentions and referrals among consumers. Respond to feedback — particularly negative reviews — with open communication and without being defensive, and highlight the positive experiences on your own pages, bringing it all back full circle." So I think yeah, if you get picked as the best answer for your niche questions on Yahoo!, then your backlinks will have more authority and increase your rankings.
Yahoo used to be good, I know coz I did the same thing a couple years back and got lots of steady traffic and even generated some leads/sales. But nowadays I don't really see YA appearing the SERPs like they used to. Seems like Google has demoted their authority quite a bit. Now it seems like every time I search in the search engines, oftentimes I'll see Quora and Reddit pop up like YA used to. That said, you can try YA, but you might get better results and better time investment if you focused on more favored platforms of today like Quora and Reddit.
Yes, I also done Yahoo Answers before one year, I used to do it for various projects or clients who need Yahoo Answer backlinks. It is great way of generating traffic to your business, but for this it will take time or you have to cross the level 3 fastly so that you can acquire the links in your post. Yahoo answer needs patience to make your profile strong and for providing do-follow backlinks.
If done correctly then its awesome. Not only Yahoo answers but other websites also like http://www.fluther.com, http://www.answers.com, http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/Wikianswers, etc