How to drive traffic form yahoo answer??

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by linkbuild, Aug 14, 2010.

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    Yahoo answers have become a major source of information for most of the people online who are searching for answers. This feature of Yahoo has unique answers from general users for all sorts of question one might be searching for, from the most casual one to the most complex.
    The idea behind this feature is quite simple. People use search engines to find questions of their answers, but instead what they find is unorganized information. Searching within that information to find what you are looking for requires a lot of time, so Yahoo started this service which allows people to ask questions and then gets answers from the others, so that people could have information in specific question and answer form.
    The idea for driving traffic from Yahoo answers is also very simple. You just have to search that section for your niche or topic your website deals in. Once you find a question whose answer is available on your website in term of a tutorial, product or service, you can safely post a link there and explain how it can help. There would be many advantages for this: It won’t be counted as spam, would be good for link building and also could drive some good referral traffic from there to your website.
    In this way, Yahoo Answers could be easily used for driving traffic to blogs and websites.
     
    linkbuild, Aug 14, 2010 IP
  2. horsey67745

    horsey67745 Peon

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    My yahoo answer account has just been closed the past two days, and I have crazy hit everywhere
     
    horsey67745, Aug 15, 2010 IP
  3. gustavoruiz720

    gustavoruiz720 Peon

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    #3
    answer quesionts in your niche
     
    gustavoruiz720, Aug 18, 2010 IP
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    mario212 Peon

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    I have tried, but low traffic and no conversion from Y Answers.
     
    mario212, Aug 18, 2010 IP
  5. jeffrey73

    jeffrey73 Guest

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    Yeah, pretty shitty traffic source.
     
    jeffrey73, Aug 18, 2010 IP
  6. EdenDD

    EdenDD Peon

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    The traffic received (if any) to each individual answer you provide (including your link) in the "source" box, is often shortlived.
     
    EdenDD, Aug 19, 2010 IP
  7. muyilleum

    muyilleum Active Member

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    whatever you do, try not to make it your main source of traffic
     
    muyilleum, Aug 19, 2010 IP
  8. Justin_Dupre

    Justin_Dupre Peon

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    I don't think yahoo answer get me much traffic at all.
     
    Justin_Dupre, Aug 19, 2010 IP
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    I got shut down really quickly despite offering a lot of free information in my answers - I won't be bothering to set up anything on that site again :) I get more hits from forum posts in my niches
    Lisa
     
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  10. MalRynolds

    MalRynolds Peon

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    I can never get it to let me put a link in it. Is it just because I am new to it?
     
    MalRynolds, Aug 19, 2010 IP
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    etc Well-Known Member

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    you need to have level 2 account to put a clickable link. and to have a level2 account you need lots of post.
     
    etc, Aug 19, 2010 IP
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    Never used it but have seen a couple of my competitors use it. It might work best around big events, I.E. people asking questions about the world cup. That would be sure to get more searches than usual.
     
    RioNomad, Aug 19, 2010 IP
  13. MalRynolds

    MalRynolds Peon

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    @ect Ah, thank you. I wondered how that worked.
     
    MalRynolds, Aug 25, 2010 IP
  14. workathomesuccess

    workathomesuccess Peon

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    I haven't had much luck with getting traffic from Yahoo answers
     
    workathomesuccess, Aug 25, 2010 IP
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    stealthdesignsolutions Well-Known Member

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    Yahoo Answers isn't too good for me, for traffic. I think if you were to AIM some random users, your link, you would get more traffic than using yahoo answers.
     
    stealthdesignsolutions, Aug 25, 2010 IP
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    Y Answers is a very bad way to drive traffic unless you are one of the top people on there.
     
    cPAce, Aug 25, 2010 IP
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    Getting banned on Yahoo answers is very frequent.. Answer in your niche and make sure that the source you provide is related to your answer.
     
    BB-OM, Aug 25, 2010 IP