I think yahoo answers is not that bad and one can gain some traffic to the site. I did use it in the past and the ration of gaining traffic was not that bad.
+1 to Parul Sharma..if u dont have to get banned..u need to work hard simply..u need to put links cleverly and finding appropriate questions is even Important
If your answers are useful and you link to a valuable source of information, then you'll get a lot of traffic from visitors reading the answers from YA. I've gotten 100+ visitors to my website every day from answering and solving people's questions. I was also a top contributor for the niche of my website ( LV6 account ) , so people trusted my links. ( & the links weren't spam so people actually clicked them to read the content )
Yahoo answer links are nofollow though if your answer is selected as best and index by google for that keyword phrase you will get higher ranking and traffic in SE.
Why you should care about Traffic. Every one need traffic but Quality Traffic. Yahoo Answer traffic has no quality. However if you post the links in most relevant categories then it will help.
I got a fair amount of traffic from Google Groups and Yahoo Answers, but seriously, there are better ways of driving traffic and getting back links.
It's hard but not impossible. You just have to find a good question that's not showing a yahoo answers post via google. Also/obviously, you'll have to rank up so you can post links in your answer(s).
Yes. As long as your answers are good, useful and non spammy. Yahoo answers rank pretty well in Google as well.
Yahoo answering is counted in spamming now…. Therefore you won’t get any relevant traffic… More yahoo answering can penalized you also…
this is worth for me and you have to make lots of account so that if you get banned you can use the spare one without wasting time...
I had a competitor try this against me on my keyword. Had me scared at first because it outranked my 400 backlink, keyword-in-domain, 100-page website. But a couple days later it fell entirely off the first page of Google and I was back at #1. I think big G's getting smarter about this trick, you guys :]
they do this very often, once i volunteer to signup just to answer some question, next day my account is banned. whats the point of user rating, let the user choose the best answer. cant even have chance to build up reputation with yahoo answer, sadly.