Has something changed since these announcements in Jan 2005 where Yahoo and MSN said they DO "care" about nofollow tags?? http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html
Got lucky that my answer was selected and got around 20 uniques ! and yeah after three days the traffic stopped ..
I been receiving a steady 20 Uniques a day from this. If your site already gets thousands of hits days then your wasting your time doing this becuase as other people said the traffic is minimal.
I convert them with affiliate like hell, i do not know what you are talking about. It is almost as targeted as se traffic.
If you take a look at the source code, it has rel="nofollow". So it doesn't work for SEO. However, I've seen many question that rank very well in google, but I would not waste a second of my life answering just for a single link.
Good point. Actually there are several Yahoo! Answers questions that rank High on Google for certain search terms relevant to my site content, where I have my answer in with my link. As I said this is providing steady traffic to my site (20+ uniques a day)
The most intelligent thing to do is to ask the questions more than answer them, so you can control the exact title, maybe give a reference link in the question directly, or another of your yahoo accounts can provide a nice reply with the link and this reply will be selected as best answer by your original yahoo account..
yes, it provides absolutely targeted traffic, if you give quality answers and promote your site at the same time, it will sure help you get traffic!
I've been posting there quite a bit because it's helped to boost my overall traffic. I have a really good site, so I just need them to come to the site just once. They'll keep coming back and telling their friends about it. I'm now a top contributor on Yahoo!, and they have yet to ban me for posting my link in every answer.
I haven't tried this strategy -- It might work if your topic at Yahoo! Answers is related to your web site. I wonder if it would help, anyone tried this strategy, and had positive or negative results? Thanks, Meti
I've had positive results. I'm getting as much traffic from Yahoo! Answers as I am with five links on Wikipedia.
i tried using this as a form of promotion, and was very subtle about it, but my answers kept being rejected and removed, so i thought fu*k it.
A new way to try for me to get some traffic, I was aware of yahoo answer but never think as a traffic hub, as you guy explained
and I've got a handful of 'best answer' votes for doing that - so what yahoo thinks is spam and what their users think is, may not be the same thing
Well it is true io have also written a blog post on this how to drive traffic from yahoo answer http://www.easytutorial.info/?p=24 thanks krates