Just want to ask some opinions here. Does answering Yahoo Answers and leaving a relevant link in the answer section does help in link building efforts?
No all the links are nofollow but yes yahoo answers can help you in gaining good amount of traffic if your answer gets selected as the best answer.
it helps in link building too. that is if u type http:// aswell. i used yahoo answers to build abot 500 backlinks!
Yahoo links are no follow but you can get nice traffic if you act like a normal person and not a spammer.
No, it won't help in anyway. But than, its not for getting links anyway, so why bother. Focus on getting traffic from it.
Yes, but these are nofollow, therefore they do not count. However, I think that Yahoo Answers is a good way to get initial traffic however you need to be continually posting in order to keep it a sufficient traffic source.
I would say good traffic is better than having good backlinks. Yahoo! Answers is sweet for that purpose.
I do yahoo answers once in a while, good for traffic but not so sure about back links... I do have back links from it, but since it's a no follow, it doesn't count, right? You have to be smart in your answers in order to be voted by other members. Keep in mind on posting the same url over and over again, some people may notice it as a form of advertising and may report your account to yahoo.
Yes it does help - while the links are nofollow they still provide a SERPs benefit for your site in addition to providing direct traffic.