Nasty Yahoo Answers Cheating - Dangerous!

Celente:

What a gem of a post! Thanks so much for sharing this!

How do you make a signature in yahoo answers?

I'm both asking and answering questions and so far I can't find anywhere in my profile or out to make a signature,

Definitely a great post!

Thanks for sharing.

Last post on this thread over a year ago...Are these tactics still valid? If so, can someone post step by step on how to create a sig file for your Yahoo answers profile?

Yes Yahoo is getting smarter about this... I wouldn't recommend it anymore.

I got banned too, after only couple of hours.. but it was such a great advice

Do you ever post questions with one account and then answer the question with another account that has your sig? Just wondering as I have heard this as a trick before and I hear that it works. I have not tried this myself and wonder if this is a true method that works....

I put a link into every second answer (to relevant questions, of course), but hide it between links to Amazon or other sites.

If these other sites rank ahead of me in Google, I'll misspell one and for the others use category/less specific pages that don't rank for that keyword directly. Also, link to your network of sites evenly, not just the money site.

Too many links from Y!A won't be all that beneficial anyway; I usually aim for 20-30 per site. They are very valuable links if the keyword is in the question title.

I have not been banned, and have multiple established accounts on the same IP. Probably pushing it...

If you do not want to be banned by Yahoo Answers, make sure you only leave a hyperlink once in about ten questions you answer. Try to answer questions in other categories so that Yahoo Answers will not consider you as someone who is self-promoting and get you banned.

Even you are banned and if you are already in Level 2, your hyperlinks will still be active and you will still receive traffic from them. I am still receiving traffic despite my accounts have already been banned.

The funny thing is - when one of my account was banned last week my points keep on accumulating during the last few days whenever someone choose my answers as the best answers.

My trick is to only include a link if it is somehow relevant to both the question and the answer I provided. Since my Squidoo Lenses are pretty free-ranging in terms of subject, it's easier to get away with that. And sometimes, just to be sneaky I'll ask a question where the answer can be found in one Lens or another that seems to rank fairly highly in Google. I assume half the better answers are from people who actually use Google.

If they are so nazi about adding links to replies, why do they even allow it in the first place??

I mean surely a non-internet marketer will leave a link every few posts - it's just a natural thing to do on the internet. Some people have said they are getting banned with a promo to post ratio 1:10.

That is freaking ridiculous. You would have to TRY to make sure you don't post links that often....

I've never been banned. I find relevant questions, for example "How do I get a woman through online dating" I just say something along the lines of "Well, I don't use the paid sites because I'm a cheap-skate, so POF is probably my favorite that actually you know, works... so do [insert tactic here] to your profile, make sure your username isn't something like "nascar102" because then women may click away thinking your a stereotypical redneck or something. Actually, as lame as this sounds, I bought this book a couple months ago that really helps so I recommend it. (don't leave a pitch at the end of your response) Also, [insert other tactic here], and yeah, internet dating may sound nerdy or something, but with things like myspace and facebook it isn't uncommon for people to hook up over the net nowadays (I put this kind of line as my closing to seem personal and genuine, someone that can be related to)"

I go out of my way to Not sound formal, like a robot or automated response, I might include a couple commonly misspelled words which I probably do anyways, all to sound personal. By the way, I sell a health related eBook, not a "How to get a woman through online dating" eBook, although it probably wouldn't be a bad idea for me to write one despite the fact that I have no real experience in the field.

Notice, I didn't say "ebook" - I think certian words send up flags to Yahoo about it being spam.

Then in the source part of your answer, I put in the sales page/website URL, and if its a good sales page (mine isn't bad, could probably be better) then you may make the sale.

Something to note, is that often people will type in the same question "How do I get a woman through online dating" into Google, and then people flock to Yahoo Answers once it shows up as a link (as people know it's "real" people who discuss things, as opposed to a plain website or article with a somewhat relevant answer) and your website/sales page will get more traffic, which of course, could mean more sales.

I don't consider this an actual formula or anything, but for every hidden marketing answer I leave on Yahoo Answers, I answer at least 10 others. Half the time, questions are asked from people just a little too lazy to use Google (but people like the discussion type of response) so I do, and I form up a decent answer... and thats that.

I don't feel like Yahoo Answers is something you can just copy and paste a pre-made marketing answer and expect good things and not to get banned... It's a community, people actually report things as they do like a forum.

....Just my experience.

I don't use yahoo answers anymore, it doesn't seem worth it. I have not been banned before but I have had many answers deleted.

My answers were voted best answer by the person asking the question but still got taken down because I had the nerve to put a link in the resource section where they ALLOW them. :-(

I treid this methods a few weeks ago and I also got banned a few hours later. This thread makes me think about how easy it would have been in the past to make money online. It get's harder and harder. But on the other side the information gets better and better espescially on forums like this

greetings
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