I used Yahoo answers for 8 months. They did bring traffic around 20 visits a day and some back links but no sales. I eventually felt my time was better spent creating more content for my website and getting back links.
I only used them on a limited basis due to them being 'nofollow' - ok for some traffic but I tend to find the traffic that it does send doesn't convert very well.
I wonder how how yahoo answers can be a primary source of income. Perhaps a litter explnation about using it for earning will be beneficial to many. Kindly provide guidance.
I'm pretty sure what these guys are referring to is answering peoples questions on there and maybe leaving a link to their website. The sales come from their website, Yahoo is just the source of the traffic.
This is spot on with how making money with Yahoo Answers works. The only other thing I would like to add is that since everyone started using it for income, it became rather flooded with people doing the same thing. So if you're seriously looking into answering a lot of answers each day.
Using Yahoo Answers to get traffic is spam. Eventually, you'll get banned. That traffic will not sustain itself.
Depends on how well you are targeting your market on there. Do you refine your search using the "advanced search" link? It's just like in anything else. The more you target your market, the more it will convert. Also, does your landing page convert well using other methods? If it doesn't, then obviously the problem might be the landing page of the product/service you're promoting.
Well it's only spam if you're spamming! There are obviously other very effective non-spammy ways to make yahoo answers work.
Yahoo answer used to be a good in both link building and website brand promotion strategy. Everything was ended when too many webmasters abused them by answer only garbage just to plastered their website name in it. Yahoo announce a more strict rules thereafter and rarely of answer with link in it could still be alive since then.
Yeah, yahoo has become much more strict lately. I've been banned from linking just 4 times, even though I contribute and had 20% best answers. I wouldn't recommend yahoo anymore.
I like the yahoo answers one. The traffic I am looking for is NOT just views to a page - I'd like to get it to at least convert it to subscribers. Good stuff so far.
Yahoo Answers is a great "long term" option. YA tends to rank very well in Google, so if you happen to answer a question that ranks high and generates searches, you'll get a small trickle of visitors for years.