Guys, I have been reading about Yahoo Answers recently. I am wondering other than ranking well in search engines, which is good for us to scrap some indirect search engine traffic, does Yahoo Answers pass link juice? If it does, can I use the <a> tags for my links and anchor text or I am just allowed to use links in http://www.xxx.com format? Thanks.
Depends on the answer/topic but I don't imagine it helps any more or less than regular article submissions. We've written a few articles but find that mostly they generate traffic from competitors and that's about it.
Yahoo answers is good for links and traffic - it is worth answering and setting up the feed in your niche.
Yahoo answers is good for targetted tarffic, but not for passing link juice as all links are no follow and you cannot use a anchor text. u can use only ht**p://W**.hegfiegiuwe dot com formatt. Therefore not very useful. if you spam answers you will find that they ban you very quickly. so moderation is advised! also do not go on posting your links only - try answering some questions - otherwise one look at your profile will tell them that you are spamming & u will earn a very quick ban!
Useless for link building considering that they use to "nofollow" attribute, but good for driving highly targeted traffic and branding. Well, perhaps it's not entirely useless for link building because someone could potentially link to your site if they found it useful enough.
You can build credibility by answering questions then people actualy look at the references you supply and you get traffic. Not much but....
It's great place for generation traffic to your website. It's not really good place for make building link progress.
I agree with Jmac and Ebyun84. I have been contributing in Yahoo Answers with niches I know such as FoxPro Programming, Philippines Places and other topics. And it is a good way to distribute your site and links. And luckily one of the readers will want to check more on that certain topic and go to your site. And I hope that Yahoo Answers will recognize worthy contributions and site links same with Wiki.
In term of generating traffic, yahoo answer is one of the good way but not for the link building purpose
i have not used yahoo answer to get backlink, i was told that new users are not allowed to put link in it? is it true?