Yahoo answers, Does that help?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by monishka, May 13, 2009.

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    can you please advice me how yahoo answers help in link building?
     
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  2. stephen082

    stephen082 Active Member

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    Yahoo answers doesn't help you to build links for your site for any particular keyword. You can leave your website URL while giving answer to any question and if your site can help as a resource for that question. Although you can't make link for any particular keyword or title, but you can get highly targeted traffic to your site. Moreover these links get cached by google and counted in sites actual backlinks.
     
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  3. kazhas

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    I agree with stephen. I get a lot of traffic just by answering questions.
     
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  4. angilina

    angilina Notable Member

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    Links from Yahoo Answers are not counted as backlinks as they are no followed. People use Yahoo Answer just to get some traffic.
     
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  5. daremkd

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    Yes right Yahoo Answers are helps to generate traffic to your site you can generate lots of traffic from Yahoo answers besides Google we also have to focus Yahoo :)
     
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  6. RightMan

    RightMan Notable Member

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    Yahoo answers is not for building back links.
    In fact, they are excellent source for organic traffic and if you have good content coupled with appropriate offers on your site, you stand a very good chance of monetizing such traffic....very easily! :rolleyes:

    Regards,

    RightMan
     
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    mdamin76 Well-Known Member

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    Yahoo Answer is one of the way to gain traffic, but not backlinks.
     
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    yahoo ans is not using for good back link most of use yahoo and to generate good traffic to our web site.
     
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  9. verticity

    verticity Well-Known Member

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    great idea to generate traffic
     
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  10. rennee

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    Yahoo answers will help us to generate traffic but it wont give us the back links.
     
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  11. monishka

    monishka Peon

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    Is that traffic from yahoo answers is meaningful?
     
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  12. Journey

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    Yes, it can be.. Just choose a question that's relevant to your site's niche. Provide an answer with nice explanation and be sure to just only leave your site's link if your site contains some useful resource or information that will help solve the question of the member.

    When your answer is chosen as the best one, this may help provide your site with more traffic and can also help increase your online reputation or credibility.
     
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  13. markov

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    The traffic from Yahoo is really worth to spend time on it. It gives a targeted traffic. But no backlinks please....
     
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    Yahoo Answers, a Traffic answer... Quite easy right?, even though Yahoo Answers is classified as a non backlink provider, it's still a site to get specific type of traffic. Choose your category(best if your selected category is the same as your site's niche), provide an interesting and brief answer(include links directing to your site if any of your content provide a good answer to the question), then leave your site's URL as a resources.
     
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  15. Melisa

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    I would say that if you are continuously working on yahoo answer and providing a best answer to the questionnaire then you will definitely get a good traffic to your site, as the Google crawl it very soon, can say within 5 min. But despite this you do not get any backlink for your site with the help of yahoo answers.
    So in short its good for traffic but not for backlinks.
    Enjoy traffic :)
     
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    most of the users of yahoo answers are after for the traffic and reputation.
     
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    Yes I agree With ur points....Most of the users of yahoo answers have focusing only for traffic of their sites..But it will not be consider as a back links.
     
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    Yes. I agree. I answer a few questions and put my link in a couple of them. I find I get pretty good traffic from them.
     
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    Yahoo answers can help if you dont mind trawling through to find questions where you can legitimately place your link in a reply.
     
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