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I think nobody can possibly know the answers to either of these questions with any reliability ...

... unless either "using Yahoo Answers" is the only thing they've done, or they've done a split-test of two otherwise entirely identical campaigns, one including and the other excluding Yahoo Answers (both rather unlikely scenarios, I think)?

It's all about attributing causation without quantitative evidence, isn't it?

I've been using Yahoo Answers pretty consistently, albeit on a small scale, for about two and a half years, to help a little with my promotion of 8 different niche sites, and even I can't begin to answer those questions.

I use it primarily to draw traffic to my site, not for the backlinks (my business model isn't really dependent on search engines anyway, and I'm always less interested in backlinking than most others here).

Without being able to quantify anything as you've asked, I've certainly found it, overall, very beneficial and worthwhile indeed, and have acquired many good and regularly buying customers that way. The traffic quality can be very good.

This activity has a real learning-curve.

It rewards patience, persistence and discipline. There's also some luck involved in it, I'm sure - but (like so many promotional activities which involve any sort of posting on sites one doesn't own) in the long term, the results are ultimately all about one's willingness and ability to add value to the sites one visits (Yahoo's, in this case).

People approaching it only from a perspective of "what can I get away with here?" and "what can I get out of it?" are unlikely indeed to be successful with it, and quite likely even to manage to get themselves banned there!

Originally Posted by SteveTanabe

What method are you using to monetize(CPA, Amazon, etc?)

I'm building lists, and promoting sales of various things (including ClickBank and Amazon products) as an affiliate.

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Chris Ditfort

12 years ago

I've used Yahoo Answers, It can get you a lot of backlinks If you don't spam it. You need to not only answers questions on your niche but on many and don't put a source sometimes, otherwise you'll be flagged for spam real quick and get your account banned.

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Yulia from DNP

12 years ago

Yes, yahoo answers can do nice things when you are trying it with a good niche. otherwise, waste of time.

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steve72b

12 years ago

I agree, it works for niche products and it takes to turn into traffic, yahoo and bing are slow crawlers

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StevenWatanabe

12 years ago

@Alexa Smith -- I appreciate your detailed reply! It is exactly what I was looking for when I made this post. And yes, you are correct that unless they are using YA exclusively in some sort of split test, they cannot answer the questions reliably. My aim was to see the replies based on the few questions. Heck if someone did do a split test on this, I think it would be some valuable data. I just thought I would throw the ol bait n hook and see who would bite.

2 Years is impressive. You mentioned that you use ClickBank to monetize. Are you directing traffic straight to the offer or through a gateway first for capture their email?

@Chris Ditfort – Have you used YA on your campaigns? If so, have you exclusively tested with only YA backlinks and what are your results?

@Yulia from DNP and @Steve72b – Do you have experience with nailing the “good niche”? If so, could you give us a walkthrough of your daily routine with YA? (ie. How many posts/day, etc…)

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveTanabe

@Alexa Smith -- 2 Years is impressive. You mentioned that you use ClickBank to monetize. Are you directing traffic straight to the offer or through a gateway first for capture their email?

Always to my own site, so that I can opt them in (by offering a "free report", or whatever, in exchange for their email address). Nobody makes much by direct-linking to ClickBank products: these are products that sell almost exclusively "on the strength of the recommendation", and that requires having a relationship with the potential customer, not just redirecting them to a sales page. (I've never tried it, because I wouldn't sell anything that way, but I also strongly suspect that redirecting from Yahoo Answers to an affiliate or vendor offer would result in an immediate ban.)

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 12 years ago

I've used Yahoo Answers a lot in 2011; but mostly to troll. When I get into affiliate marketing (holy crap, I start next week!), I'll probably work it in on a small scale. If it seems to bring in the right kind of traffic for my niche, I'll keep it going. If not, back to making fun of people.

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Dominis Marketing

12 years ago

Several years ago I played with Yahoo answers. I answered something about the health niche and I added a link to one of my sites.

In about a day or two (I can't clearly recall) I got a spike in traffic and when I checked
it was coming from clicks in the yahoo answer link which was the first result in the serps
for it's keyword. It was interesting but I was new back then and just took it for granted.

I don't know if yahoo answers still ranks that high and that fast in the serps and I don't know if you can still easily add in links. My account there is around 7 years old I think.

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StevenWatanabe

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Always to my own site, so that I can opt them in (by offering a "free report", or whatever, in exchange for their email address). Nobody makes much by direct-linking to ClickBank products: these are products that sell almost exclusively "on the strength of the recommendation", and that requires having a relationship with the potential customer, not just redirecting them to a sales page. (I've never tried it, because I wouldn't sell anything that way, but I also strongly suspect that redirecting from Yahoo Answers to an affiliate or vendor offer would result in an immediate ban.)

That seems to be the standard for IM and is some good info for the newer members in the community. Some people have multiple lvl 2 accounts and they just rotate answering questions. If they get banned, oh well, they can just make or buy some more. Though it is not a whitehat way of doing things..

Originally Posted by Dominis Marketing

Several years ago I played with Yahoo answers. I answered something about the health niche and I added a link to one of my sites.

In about a day or two (I can't clearly recall) I got a spike in traffic and when I checked
it was coming from clicks in the yahoo answer link which was the first result in the serps
for it's keyword. It was interesting but I was new back then and just took it for granted.

I don't know if yahoo answers still ranks that high and that fast in the serps and I don't know if you can still easily add in links. My account there is around 7 years old I think.

Thats good to here. So far most of the people I have talked to report the same thing... It is good for bringing traffic, but you need to maintain the level of dedication to consistently answer questions.

About the ranking in the serps, I do know that your question can get ranked on page 1, but still not sure about the effect on the backlink value of YA links. Do you know anyone else that uses YA that has tried to use YA for backlinks? If we dont hear anything soon, I might have to try this out myself and keep a daily log/report for everyone to see...

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DoubleOhDave

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveTanabe

That seems to be the standard for IM and is some good info for the newer members in the community. Some people have multiple lvl 2 accounts and they just rotate answering questions. If they get banned, oh well, they can just make or buy some more. Though it is not a whitehat way of doing things..

Thats good to here. So far most of the people I have talked to report the same thing... It is good for bringing traffic, but you need to maintain the level of dedication to consistently answer questions.

About the ranking in the serps, I do know that your question can get ranked on page 1, but still not sure about the effect on the backlink value of YA links. Do you know anyone else that uses YA that has tried to use YA for backlinks? If we dont hear anything soon, I might have to try this out myself and keep a daily log/report for everyone to see...

Hey Steve - your link popped up as being blocked and showing this message: This website has been reported to Microsoft for containing threats to your computer that might reveal personal or financial information.

Just lettin you know...

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Trevor 12 years ago

I used Yahoo Answers in the past to grow my list. I'm still using this technique from time to time.

If you would like to find out how I'm building my list with Yahoo Answers, you can check a video I made explaining it in good detail. Here's a thread with the video:

http://www.warriorforum.com/ad-netwo...list-fast.html

Hope this helps a tad

- Trev
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