Got kicked off Yahoo Answers, can I do anything??

You can either appeal it or you can just create a new yahoo account

It's against their TOS to post with your URL except if you are referencing website.

They are really touch against spamming and will barely reactivate your account.

Find another or better source of building back links...

normally if u give an imformative answer people wont flag u but seems like it only takes one person flagging u and its over. im wary of even telling people they are wrong about something for fear theyll click report. so easy to get banned. just startup another account

If you want to continue you have to create another account ...that is up to you how you do it

I feel your pain buddy. There's a crap load of low life loser nazi flaggers over there. Even when your post is professional and relevant to the topic, they still report you. You can forget about appealing your case, they will not reinstate your post or answers.

Best thing to do is go to fivver for outsourcing for $5. It will eliminate all your headaches. They have some really good Yahoo Answers posters over there who know how to bypass all the BS. Just be sure to check the ones with positive high ratings. It's worked pretty well for me.

Thanks for all the answers... It'll really crappy, I honestly thought I was offering good answers.. I'll prob just create a new account

The whole point of you posting there was to build backlinks, so you really can't get mad at them. Just move on and create another account and try again. Provide links to other sites also, so it doesn't look spammy.

Just a thought... Why would I/we assume you were NOT spammy, when even in your OP you just spammed this forum? - You could have told your story without a link to your site in the post, just describing the facts. And the site is not part of them: it was NOT the site itself that resulted in banning your YA account but your posts. Like the OP... There wasn't a real need to link to the site to make us understand the events. But you like backlinks, I assume

QED

I stopped using Yahoo Answers when I had a complaint without reason, even though it was only a complaint and nothing else, I could keep posting answers.

Then I found Quora, which is a similar site with answers, only that the answers there are quite better than the silly answers you find at YA. Sometimes I answer a question of two at Quora, and sometimes I post a link, when it complements my answer. This is helping me drive some traffic to my Squidoo lenses (and from there, to my sites).

I stopped using Quora when an aggressive user accused me of 'trying to sell my ebooks at Quora' because I posted a link. I gave him a few explanations, but in the end he didn't want to continue the discussion because he saw that I would explain more and more and more, until I would prove that he shouldn't complain.

Some people don't seem to understand that you cannot give one hundred explanations in an answer; you have to necessarily indicate a link for more information. Besides that, why would you spend your precious time giving answers if you didn't have the intention to get traffic? You deserve to be paid for spending your time with this matter.

Later I answered a few questions at Quora again, but I don't like to use sites where people are offensive. It's a waste of time; you have to give answers to aggressive people who will criticize what you said in a negative way while you had no intention to spend more time in this site...

Other times I like comments that criticize my words because I have the chance to give interesting explanations to my readers; it depends on the situation.

Quora is not as popular as Yahoo Answers, but it is gradually becoming more popular. It might help you, but be careful with the links because there you don't have the chance to post a link referring your sources like you do at YA. You can include a link in your post, this is not forbidden, but this link must complement your answer.

I have had a few accounts banned as well - due to the sole fact that people will report your answer just because your competition.

Here are a few tricks I have learned to make sure your answers stick and your are not reported.

1) only add your link to about 20% of your total answers. Rest of the time leave your resource box blank or provide another link if relevant

2) Give in depth and well thought out answers. This will help ensure you are not spamming and give you more credibility.

3) When posting your link try to find answers where the expire date is almost up. This will give you a better chance of not someone come alone and report your post.

Yes I had the same issue - my answers were genuinely legitimate, but I presume because I had a link leading to my website which answered the question in more detail, it got flagged as spam - perhaps by competitors.

It's a shame because it's a good way to get links and traffic!

Yahoo answers is a battlefield with many users using multiple accounts to post and answer their own questions. Unless you want to join in the battle, there are others ways to get good link juice.

With Yahoo Answers, you have to mix it up. Add links to other sites. It also helps if you have a few sites yourself. So you are not placing the same link in every post. You could make a new account.

I've been reported by other Yahoo Answers posters, appealed and had my appeal approved and my answer re-instated. Been using Yahoo Answers over a year now (not every day though) and this has happened 3 or 4 times.

My method, I:
1. Don't reference my site very often - like maybe 1 out of 6 or 8 answers, and only when it really fits.
2. Give longer, better and more thorough answers than most others and very often get that "Best Answer" email. Plus it helps if you can write well.
3. Include a statement near the bottom that I'm not an affiliate nor receive any benefit from my answer - it's just the best info I've found. I don't say this when referencing my own sites.
4. My "rank" is pretty high ("883 points, level 2"), so maybe that helps.

I think their human reviewers are quite good.

_jim coe

You know what I thought the same thing when I seen this thread,but decided to play nice. I said to myself, "I see right away why he got banned"

Links tend to look less spammy when they are your own

His intentions were to go and build backlinks to his website, which is pretty much to spam the place, so he can't be mad for getting busted

I really enjoyed answering Yahoo questions. Spend serious consideration for the person who was asking. Sometimes it took me 15 minutes to answer the question well. My answers were frequently considered best answers. Sometimes I referenced my site, sometimes other resources.

I was banned twice (different accounts). They have trolls that do nothing but report sites.I gave up. It was not worth it.

I suggest you look for something else.

I think you should try new Accounts with Yahoo. Not only Yahoo Answers Try Answers.com also.

I've lost my patience with Yahoo Answers - and all other sites where there's this BIG BROTHER ethos at work. I instantly got the feeling that my input is subject to other (mostly prejudiced) people's whims.

I wrote a few dozen answers with NO links. I had something like 80% "best answers" almost immediately. I quickly reached level 2. Soon I had over 900 points. I placed my link a couple of times but NEVER alone - always with other sources. More often than not, I didn't use any links. I did the whole thing just for fun - not "really" for link building, although that was my intent "for later".

Then one day one of my answers got flagged. It was another one of my "best answers" so that was surprising to me. I saw that there were a couple of people with THOUSANDS of points there who didn't get the best answer and I thought that maybe one of them flagged me.

I objected and pointed out my possible suspects.

Within hours ALL MY ANSWERS got flagged and pulled!

Just like that. No explanation (other than standard BS). No recourse.

Never again.

First, it could always be a wrong "suspension".
Try to contact the support and ask for the exact reason, helped me all the time if things like that happen.

But honestly, this is a bad way to get some traffic...

"Honestly, I don't believe I was being "Spammy".

Too bad Yahoo did

Appealing will not help as it happened several times for me as well. Creating new account is the only way you have now. Also just because your account is suspended, you should not abandoned using Yahoo Answers, because it is really good source of targeted traffic.

Forget about it and move on.

Unfortunately it's just a classic case of what can and will happen when you rely on third party sites for your business.

Why not spend that same time creating and syndicating content on your own website rather than building content for others?

I think your best bet is to create a new account. I had the same thing happen to me but I was spamming. I was trying to figure out what they consider spamming and what is not.

I was commenting in the weightloss section and left a link on every post.

Sucks that you built an established account. Think back to how many posts you were doing per day and what percentage of those you were leaving your link in if not all of them.

Cut down the next time around. Best wishes

I've got banned several times. Although I find my answers is helpful.

Try focus on other place like forum in your niche.
since you are in photoshop tutorial,why don't you submit your tutorial in various tutorial sites.It is more safe for backlinks

khaiez

If you are knowledgable and provide quality information a better strategy would be to find some high PR, high traffic, contextual forums and comment on them. You'll be fine to leave your own link there even if its just in a signature.

You should also consider guest posting if you feel confident in your level of expertise.

Hope this helps.

There's got to be better things to do with your time than build HTML for an ungrateful Yahoo Corp.

I know this really sucks.... and not sure if it's possible to get your account back....
But what I read once that backlinks should stay in the system of yahoo, but not really sure if they would delete all your answers that you have given...

Yahoo has certain filters that go off, the same thing happened to me a long time ago, and I will be honest with you, unless you want to do less posts and risk using a source that can delete all your work in a flash, it is best to cut your losses and move on. Forums are a much better choice for promotion and helping people.

They banned my account too :/ Try google forums you will not face bann there. and yahoo answers don't traffic much traffic so i don't answer questions any more

I don't know anyone has succesfully overturned a suspension on Yahoo Answers, only option is to start over with a new account with different IP.

Go for another account. Take the help of your friends who have level 2 answer account to help to reach in level 2 quickly.