Yahoo Answers for list building - has anyone had trouble with it?

It can be hit or miss but linking directly to a squeeze page is always going to cause more problems as people will be suspicious. Link it to a website or blog full of content and you'll have more chance of your links sticking but there will always be some answers that get reported from genuine users of the site and your competition.

Maybe you should try reading the TOS for Yahoo Answers.

Yeah, kinda sucks. Yet another blow to my traffic generation efforts lol.

If this happens again I'll have to let YA go and come back to it if I decide to make a blog. Hopefully, it's just a one-time troll but if not, my only traffic source will be the forum posting you suggested.

Why are you so insistent on limiting your traffic sources? There are hundreds of ways to drive traffic to sites out there, read about them and use them.

My experience with YA is the same. All of my answers get flagged despite my efforts to provide thoughtful answers. I think YA is better for driving traffic to a content/adsense site. Any site with any kind of transactional component will get your answer flagged.

You can work around this if you're willing to put your black hat on, but I think you're better off in forums and discussion groups.

Well if you can't be bothered with putting effort and a bit of work into the project you may as well just give up now as you'll never succeed.

Youtube is one of the easiest ways in the world to drive quality, targeted, traffic that buys to your site. If uploading a video is too much effort for you though then your loss.

I never got much out of YA for fitness. There are literally thousands of questions asked but they were all by teens with no money. At least the ones that I came across. I might suggest taking a look at what mike Geary (truth about abs) does. That site has opt ins but is loaded with content and judging by his results..... Well they speak for themselves.

Also, try and narrow down your niche. I saw that you were going after muscle building, your squeeze page gives a secret that tripled your lifts, those are two different niches. Why? If most people tried to increase their lifts the muscle would follow. Just some thoughts, your threads are actually helping me re- think my own sites

I never had luck with YA. When I got started in IM almost 3 years ago, I used to spend hours trying to link my sales (not squeeze) pages there. lol..

This ^^^^^ is the key question.

It varies enormously from niche to niche. If you're in a niche in which competitors are going to "flag" your posts, it's going to be a real uphill struggle.

It works very well for some people, very badly for others.

I've done well with it, over the years - had traffic and sales from it. I give long, detailed, value-adding answers and put a self-serving link (to a content-rich page) in about 15% of them.

Further information in these threads ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5867282
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7203219
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7156748
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7086668
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5967496

I've never had much long term success with Yahoo Answers and in most cases any questions I answer with a link ends up getting deleted, so yes
it can help with some traffic, but overall from what I have seen it's not the
best place to waste your time on.

All the best,

Martin

No I am not a great fan of Yahoo as far as answering and getting traffic from there. Sending straight to a squeeze page might not have been the best idea either.

I have learnt a lesson in how not to use Yahoo. Next time allow yourself no more that one hour to answer questions. The same goes for forums as well. Try not to spend too much time because there are other tactics you can use to get traffic.

Yahoo Answer will ban you if you keep promote your salespage/ squeeze page link . There are many people there that have higher ranking will report your answer if they find it not appropriate. Yahoo Answer is not a best place to find traffic now.

Yahoo Answers is not the best place to spam with a link to your squeeze page. They are extremely strict, and rightfully so, about random irrelevant links being flooded all over the place under the pretext of sourcing.

I have worked on various projects that involved building high reputation accounts on Y!A. However, in all of those projects, I was extremely careful about questions I would actually use my client's website as a source to answer. The key is to find relevant questions using the search bar, and then answering them with a link to a RELEVANT page from your website from which you are getting your answer. Do not just go around answering random questions and putting your link into the source.

If you post anything irrelevant at all, somebody WILL report it. Users get rewards for keeping the site free from spam and unwanted links. Make sure you are actually answering the question, and more importantly, any links you put as sources are in fact sources for your answer.

You might just be able to post one or two answers daily if your niche is not something people ask questions on, but you will attract relevant traffic from that question forever since Y!A ranks well on all search engines and it will constantly refer people to your page.

Most importantly, NEVER link directly to your squeeze page. That will be reported on virtually every occasion.

I hope this helps!

Thanks for the replies guys, I'll be sure to ease up on this and use YA more strategically as part of my overall traffic generation plan.

Chris and Alexa, to answer your question, my niche is in muscle building.

The same thing happened to me recently, although I'd been posting there for a few years without any issues. As soon as I posted on the dating and fitness niches someone flagged me up and my account was suspended. I think they are tightening their rules just like Google & are having a purge of accounts.

I have the same issue, only about 10% of my answers ever slip through the net. I really don't think YHA is viable TBH.

I dont know about the others but I've started Yahoo answer just now and its going on pretty Good!