first day on the affiliate job - I got suspended

I keep reading the money is in the list so I guess you need to build a list.

You might go to the thread "Auto Traffic Hijack. That might help.

Were you sending people directly to the link?

If you were it's likely this is the reason for the ban, did you read the terms and conditions?
If you don't have one already get a website set up and direct your traffic there first.
Hope this helps.

Yahoo answers take some time to figure out. At least this is what I have learned. As mentioned earlier, never send people directly to your hop page. You need to build a page, and send them there. From there direct them to your link.

Also, if you use Yahoo Answers properly you can drive a bit of traffic to your page. It just takes a black/grey hat method. Which I will not discuss or promote here because I am not really into black hat methods.

You can not just post links at most of the forums or websites. Always read TOS first.

That's bad, yahoo answers comes under grey hat technique?. The better strategy would be creating articles on web 2.0 properties and referring them while answering the questions at Yahoo Answers.
Good luck

We'll at least your learning, you now know what NOT to do.

Try little tests in a few different area's and then start focusing on the area/method/technique that provides the best return.

Try to provide useful content that helps people and then cross promote your product. I'd recommend you do most on this on your own website not 3rd party sites like yahoo.

Lee

Gotta love when somebody suggests using a questionable method but fails to mention what the consequences might be.

Hummm..let me see if I understand this right...

1.You located a product in clickbank you started to promote.

2.You followed their exact instructions and marketing advice.

3.Then you got suspended!!!!

I would find another product to promote!

Preferrably, a product that worked.

get a refund i did.

You have to be careful with Yahoo Answers. No doubt you posted too many messages in too short a space of time so it looked like spam to them. Make sure you don't past too often, and when you do make sure it is valuable content and not spammy just to get people to click on your link.

You should not rely on Yahoo Answers as your primary source of traffic. If you're new to internet marketing in general, you probably do not know how to stay safely within Yahoo guidelines when commenting in Answers.

I'm guessing that they may have taught you some greyhat techniques which could get you banned. Suffice it to say that Yahoo Answers is not meant as a place for you to repeatedly post a high number of comments using one account, and trying to skirt around this regulation pretty much borders on using grey/black hat techniques.

Start learning other more appropriate forms of traffic generation - Yahoo Answers was never meant to be a sustained and long-term traffic source.

Paul

My opinion is that yahoo answers is actually a highly viable method for long term traffic.

Here's how to use yahoo answers properly. When you answer questions, make sure you take the time to answer the question properly, such that you would most likely be chosen as the best answer. At the bottom, include a relevant affiliate website that you're promoting that gives them an incentive to click (i.e. free course, free ebook and what not).

After a few months of regularly getting selected as best answers, i became a Top Contributor for a particular subject and that is when the traffic starts coming.

Don't put link if you answer in yahoo answer they will surely banned your account. Read first the guidelines before answering questions.

Yahoo Answers is pretty picky about promoting your own products in their answers.

You may want to try out a site like Ezinarticles. You write an article and they let your put a link to your site in the resource box of the article.

Good luck,
Jason

Unfortunately, many product owners would suggest you do things you shouldn't do. Some of them provide pretty aggressive suggestions, and without experience to help you temper their suggestions, you can get in hot water.

5 minutes to get suspended means you couldn't possibly have been answering the questions people asked. It takes more than a few hits to be suspended. Typically, you will get a notice that you have a post that's been tagged as spam. Then perhaps another before they hit you with suspension. Now, if you have no points from previous answers, and you suddenly post a bunch of answers in a very short time (perhaps 5 minutes) you will certainly get yourself suspended.

Yahoo answers can be a source of traffic, but you won't get much traffic from them, especially right away. For Yahoo answers to be a viable source of traffic at all (in my opinion) you really have to be selected as the "best answer" a fair number of times. Typically, these are the ones that seem to get indexed in the search engines.

White hat techiques for getting links into Yahoo Answers are time consuming, so you really have to want to help people, and provide a link as your source. Begin with a blog on your web site that contains real content. It should be used to generate a list, which you then use to gain the trust of your subscribers, then eventually promote products to them. (None of this is an overnight solution for generating money online.)
When you answer a question on Yahoo Answers or any other forum of that sort, you need to provide a real answer. Several paragraphs are typically needed to provide background or content that supports your answer. A "go to this link" post is not considered an answer. Once you have provided information, there is a section where you can give credit to your source. This is where you can provide a link to your blog or web site.

So how to get your answer chosen as "best"? I rely on giving a very good answer. Some people (gray hat technique follows) have multiple logins, and log in with several alternate accounts and vote on their own answers to improve their chance of being chosen "best". Personally, I feel this is stuffing the ballot box, and cannot see why Yahoo wouldn't eventually see that the same 4 accounts always like your posts and catch on, but perhaps they have bigger fish to fry...

I've done some split testing to see where my traffic comes from, by creating shortened links through one of my web sites. That way, I can track which venues are providing traffic. Generally speaking, Yahoo Answers only rarely gives me immediate traffic as a result of my answers, but it does provide a trickle that I wouldn't have had otherwise. Given that it takes me 5 to 10 minutes or so per answer, it isn't a high return on my time, but it is somewhat entertaining for me, and gives me an opportunity to hone my skills in a forum that doesn't "count" as much as some others.

Basic rules for promoting your affiliate products:

Don't post an affiliate link in the clear. Most of the answer forums like Yahoo Answers prohibit affiliate links on their sites. (Yes, I know you see them there every day, but if you use shortened links it is difficult to tell if they are an affiliate link or a link to your site). As an example, if I sent you to http://askrf.com/r/si/ you can't tell if this is an affiliate link or my blog. (As it turns out, it redirects to a video that promotes a JV Giveaway Event for Self Improvement topics.)

Generally speaking, sending traffic directly to affiliate links is considered a less than optimal practice. First, sending the prospect directly to an affiliate link is a one-shot attempt at making money. If they buy, ok. If they don't you've lost them. On the other hand, if you get them to opt-in to your list, you win in two ways. First, it is easier to get them to opt-in, especially if you give them a freebie to do so. Second, once they are in your list, you can provide them with real content and promote to them over and over. While they may not buy the first time you promote to them, you may be able to convert them to a customer down the road. A list means more chances to make them into a customer.

This very forum is one place you can learn how to legally and ethically promote your affiliate products, or your own products if you have any.
Investing some time here reading the posts can provide an incredible amount of information that can help you down the road.

Above all, don't give up. Sit back, take some time to learn what is right and what is wrong, then proceed with the knowledge that if you work at it, you too can become a successful internet marketer.

Don worry if you get banned once. you can always sign-up as a new user.. you will be banned most of the times when trying to drive free traffic..

Here is the two keys to not getting suspended on Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube.....

Follow their terms of service.

Provide quality information to the readers-viewers.

(Did you notice what is missing? I never mentioned giving them a link to an affiliate product. Just remember, "For More information" should really mean, MORE INFORMATION on your blog or web-site, which might happen to mention a product which can help them.)

Don't go posting links on websites and forums without reading their rules and regulations first. Anyway, maybe signing up for another site will do.

You have to become an authority to reckon with on yahoo answers before you can make money on it. There is a serious eye watching new yahoo answer users and if you have a link on all your answers, you become suspect. I suggest a 5:1 ratio - so for every 5 answers you can post one link. It really is hardwork but will pay off once you reach the 2nd or third level.

There are a lot of misguided, misinformed and plain wrong answers here. I have promoted products on Y!A for years, using software very similar to the OP's.

Here are some basic points:

This advice is separate from the people who are giving advice about 'whitehat' Y!A techniques. (No such thing in my opinion, but it makes the people feel good about themselves to call it 'whitehat') You can't use an auto-posting application and then pretend that you're whitehat - you're not. So if you are going to use blаckһаt techniques, be prepared to face - and deal with - the problems that those techniques bring you.

Your account got suspended? So what? You can get 1k accounts for $4 if you look in the right place. Load 'em up and get posting!
Contest the suspension? What the hell for? Move on, accounts are dispensible.
Basically you are spamming. If you are going to spam, make sure your posts are damned good and put a link in every single one.
Try to use level 2 accounts - they can post clickable links.
Forget any idea that your set of accounts is going to get to level 2 - it's not going to happen. Not even close.
As has been said, don't link directly to your offer, use an interim landing page to keep your referrer legit.
Use proxies - you will have no option if you are posting at a fast rate.

were u just posting answers relevant to the questions ? or you kinda detoured on some of your answers and posted a direct link?