I'd say Yahoo Groups are better. The Yahoo Answers TOS does not allow people to promote their links, sites, etc.
Yahoo group is better to attain high traffic but for backlinks, i don't think so that it is the best way to use . Yahoo answers are not used by general users . Yahoo answers are used by those who want to gain some knowledge or want some answers to their questions but as in case of yahoo groups general users are frequently using yahoo groups so we can say that yahoo group is better to attain high traffic.
If your in the right groups, Yahoo Groups is better for traffic. If your product/service is relevant to the group AND you are an active (or at least semi-active) in the group as a contributor, you can get some decent traffic to your site. But I would say be careful of just being a Spammer in a group. If the administrator of that group is actually paying attention, you'll be removed from the group immediately.
Yahoo group is better if you find your group an active one. In Yahoo answer you can not promote link to attract traffic.
Both of them is as good as nothing. Why won't you just you use other methods like guest blogging to drive traffic?
Both are not good because other answering and conversation portal creating traffic relevant and targeting traffic more good as compared to Yahoo! groups.
FYI, I personally HATE Yahoo Answers. I guess the 'idea' of it is good, but overall it is very poorly run if you are actually looking for "answers" to a questions. But that's just my opinion.
I agree. Yahoo answers is not great when you link to a personal website. I used to leave all my backlinks in the questions untill just recently when my answers started to get reported.
But at the same time I received a good amount of traffic. Because I posted in the right sections. But alas I still knew I was in the wrong. I think if someone created a clone kinda like yahoo answers and you could leave a backlink it would really spark. But then people would abuse it.
i have never tried yahoo before.i use google for my business.thanks for your advice.i will try yahoo.
If your in the right groups, Yahoo Groups is better for If your product/service is relevant to the group AND you are an active (or at least semi-active) in the group as a contributor, you can get some decent traffic to your site.