I use Yahoo Answers to get more traffic to my website. Does anyone else? It was a process for me at the beginning, but once you become a credible source, it is a really great tool. What is everyones opinions?

I agree to a certain extent. It`s best as you say when you get nicely established and get some credibility. Having the `best answer` is a nice feeling, knowing you`ve been able to genuinely help someone, and it helps to raise a member`s profile too.

i agree to a certain extent too...but i think that if you're doing seo yahoo answers is too time-consuming and other methods take less time and are more effective...

You don't necessarily use Yahoo Answers for the SEO benefit as there's little to none as the links are no-followed.

What I have found is that answers.yahoo.com gets very good rankings in the SE's for quite generic questions that are searched very often and this will translate in constant visitors/customers to the site you're 'advertising' as the source link or whatever method you're using to put your site's link in the answer.

Eg.: Let's say you have an informational website about loosing weight.

Now you go to the # Health ># Diet & Fitness category on Yahoo Answers. You'll find there all kinds of questions about this subject. Try to see which questions are the most generic ones (which phrases are most likely to be searched by most people). The most searched the phrase is the most traffic it will get from SE's.

And try to answer the question, but don't be cheap on words. Give a good answer that could really help the person in cause and as well not make your answer look spammy and at the end you could say something like: 'For more articles on this matter, you can check [your website]' or 'I've found really useful articles on this website [your website] regarding [subject in cause] if you want to learn more about it' etc. (the possibilities are endless)

Google is the only site that does not count a "No Follow" link. Other search engines do include them. So, links from Yahoo answers are worth something.

I suppose they come down hard on spam even if it wasn`t meant to be.

But for PR purposes Google is the only one worth bothering about surely, as they are the only ones who use a Page Rank system.

You could also 'advertise' your link by making some very wise questions in such a way that you won't be suspected of advertising.


maybe you were too aggressive with your campaign (aka posting links from the first answers). First try to build some reputation and a solid account.



you have a point there. I still remain at my opinion that using Yahoo Answers is more beneficial for the traffic it generates (if used wisely) rather than the link bulding side.