Yahoo Answers: Backlinks

15 years ago

You can leave it in the resource box, but I wouldn't use Yahoo Answers too much. They are nofollow links.

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redstanford 15 years ago

would you still get a backlink off of it though?
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JSProjects

15 years ago

Yahoo Answers for backlinks is pretty worthless.

But if you've got a level 2 answers account your links will be clickable. There's some "grey hat" methods that can be used with a level 2 account, since questions @ Yahoo Answers tend to rank pretty high in Google.

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cka233

15 years ago

You main aim of using Yahoo answers should be for direct traffic, because the links they provide are nofollow

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rain21

15 years ago

links in yahoo answers are nofollow, so it doesn't help for SEO. Just good to get some traffic

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jacked 15 years ago

Originally Posted by rain21

links in yahoo answers are nofollow, so it doesn't help for SEO. Just good to get some traffic

Yes this, they will not help your rankings, but they will drive traffic if you can leverage them nicely.
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masterjani

15 years ago

Links from yahoo answers helps in getting high quality traffic.Sure helps only when your level1 account moves to level2

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BenJackson

15 years ago

Just because they are "nofollow" doesn't mean they are worthless links. Yahoo Answers is moderated: don't you think that Search Engines would see a level of trust coming from links that are on a well moderated site?

Don't dismiss the links simply because they are nofollow. Answering a question on yahoo answers (answering effectively NOT spam) takes all of about 1-2 minutes and can get you targeted traffic. People in yahoo answers will see your answer AND on occasion your answers will show up for long-tail keywords in the SERPs.

You're doing SEO because you're trying to get targeted traffic eventually from ranking highly. Why wouldn't you want targeted traffic right now as well?

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NoFluorescentLights 15 years ago

not only do many people who seem to be succesful at SEO talk about having a balanced backlink profile/portfolio which would naturally include no follow links (even though the vast majority of links on the internet are do follow according to matt cutts), what makes you think a do follow link from a PR N/A or PR0 site would be any better? what is that going to bleed to you in terms of link juice? ive seen some consistent trickling traffic from my links there, but i do wish i could get some anchor text on them. would love a trick for that but have never seen it on any answers...
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1234nasir

15 years ago

But mate...... this process is lengthy and time taking.

Originally Posted by BenJackson

Just because they are "nofollow" doesn't mean they are worthless links. Yahoo Answers is moderated: don't you think that Search Engines would see a level of trust coming from links that are on a well moderated site?

Don't dismiss the links simply because they are nofollow. Answering a question on yahoo answers (answering effectively NOT spam) takes all of about 1-2 minutes and can get you targeted traffic. People in yahoo answers will see your answer AND on occasion your answers will show up for long-tail keywords in the SERPs.

You're doing SEO because you're trying to get targeted traffic eventually from ranking highly. Why wouldn't you want targeted traffic right now as well?

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BenJackson 15 years ago

Originally Posted by 1234nasir

But mate...... this process is lengthy and time taking.

It really isn't though. Yahoo Answers is far from a primary method of promotion for me, but I still use it and it takes very little time. I get on about once or twice a week and bang out some answers in a few minutes.

Is 5 minutes of your time worth a new subscriber or two? What's the lifetime-value of a subscriber or customer for your site? I'm guessing it's worth more than 5 mins of time.

That being said, I don't think any method of link building should be ignored: D-I-V-E-R-S-I-F-Y
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netw6000

15 years ago

Hello:

I beg to differ on the nofollow thing. I just checked my stats in Google Webmaster tools and Yahoo Answers is listed right there in the "links to your site" section. Whether they count much or not is another question. But they definitely are seeing the links you put on Yahoo Answers and aparently not ignoring them.

What I do is try to use my keywords in the answer. I only search for open questions first. I also put my keyword right before my URL like this...
keyword phrase - your domain here with http in front

Google does look at surrounding text for keywords.

It's even better if your keywords are in your domain name then your anchor text is built in.

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Kurt Abel

15 years ago

Don't shy away from backlinks just because they are no follow. Google wants to see a natural link profile, and it doesn't look very natural for a popular site to have all do follow links pointed at it... just my 2 cents.

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paulgl

15 years ago

Originally Posted by kwaaea

Don't shy away from backlinks just because they are no follow. Google wants to see a natural link profile, and it doesn't look very natural for a popular site to have all do follow links pointed at it... just my 2 cents.

That makes no sense, but explains how bad advice sounds so good, people go
for it.

Getting nofollow links to balance anything to look like "natural" to google
is crazy. You get the nofollow links. I'll concentrate on ones that matter.

Natural? I'd sure like to find the person that came up with that nonsense.

My gosh people we are debating yahoo answers! That alone is crazy.

The first answer should have been, "Do something else that matters."
And let the thread die. If you are new, yahoo answers does not even
give you a link. They have really cut down on the spam.

Paul

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seobuzz 14 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

That makes no sense...
Paul

From your post it is quite evident that you are clueless about the power of Yahoo Answers for generating targeted traffic to a website.

And you are 'clueless' because you have failed miserably to understand the mindset of the people who are participating in Yahoo answers community. They all looking for some solutions, and the people who answers their question also relate to that problems. So if your answer is reasonable and make sense, there is 70% chance that they will also click your URL which you have provided. And that visitor may turn into your customer!

Anyway to do that, you need to have at least level 2 yahoo answers account; and many don't have that patience to collect 250 points. So a huge percentage of IMers are missing the opportunity which Yahoo answers provide.

And question of Nofollow or Dofollow does not make any sense here!! Or does it?
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YellowGreenMedia

13 years ago

So you're saying that a backlink profile with only do follow links doesn't raise red flags over at Googles HQ?

Originally Posted by paulgl

That makes no sense, but explains how bad advice sounds so good, people go
for it.

Getting nofollow links to balance anything to look like "natural" to google
is crazy. You get the nofollow links. I'll concentrate on ones that matter.

Natural? I'd sure like to find the person that came up with that nonsense.

My gosh people we are debating yahoo answers! That alone is crazy.

The first answer should have been, "Do something else that matters."
And let the thread die. If you are new, yahoo answers does not even
give you a link. They have really cut down on the spam.

Paul

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RedShifted

13 years ago

Originally Posted by YellowGreenMedia

So you're saying that a backlink profile with only do follow links doesn't raise red flags over at Googles HQ?

I have a site with over 1,000 nofollow links, and about 32 dofollow, that ranks on page 1 for a bunch of different keywords. Dying to see if this site gets penalized.

Here is something to consider, my nofollow links bring in more traffic than my dofollow. Not just because I have more of them. But some of these nofollow links make excellent sources for traffic.

Like all my youtube videos on page 1. They're all nofollow. But they bring in a very impressive chunk of traffic. My concern is traffic from any and every place possible. And if someone is going to ignore nofollow links, from places that are known to drive lots of traffic... then what can I really say? They can't be that smart.

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smodha

13 years ago

Originally Posted by RedShifted

I have a site with over 1,000 nofollow links, and about 32 dofollow, that ranks on page 1 for a bunch of different keywords. Dying to see if this site gets penalized.

Here is something to consider, my nofollow links bring in more traffic than my dofollow. Not just because I have more of them. But some of these nofollow links make excellent sources for traffic.

Like all my youtube videos on page 1. They're all nofollow. But they bring in a very impressive chunk of traffic. My concern is traffic from any and every place possible. And if someone is going to ignore nofollow links, from places that are known to drive lots of traffic... then what can I really say? They must be idiots.

-Red

Good point RedShifted - some of the best traffic sources on the planet are no-follow. You would be silly to discount it.

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Mike Anthony

13 years ago

Originally Posted by YellowGreenMedia

So you're saying that a backlink profile with only do follow links doesn't raise red flags over at Googles HQ?

Don't know if he would say that but I would. the whole idea that Google has some magical ratio of nofollow to follow that it considers natural is unproven and pretty much mythical and yeah since I do research in buying domains in the thousands by now I have seen many small business sites with only followed links that do fine.

Seriously I remember when this whole get nofollowed links to appear natural started - with link package sellers who couldn't be bothered filtering their packets for just followed links. They wer trying to sell the newbies that it was okay that most of their packet was nofollowed. Its been raging as a myth ever since.

As for Yahoo answers - traffic is fine but the only thing I use it for is if I see it in a serp I know Can rank on the page. It has the worlds most craptacular answers.

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YellowGreenMedia

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Seriously I remember when this whole get nofollowed links to appear natural started - with link package sellers who couldn't be bothered filtering their packets for just followed links. They wer trying to sell the newbies that it was okay that most of their packet was nofollowed. Its been raging as a myth ever since.

That figures lol

I always mix in some % of nofollow links, mainly because they give me traffic, but i still have a feeling (and i admit it's not based on test results) that Google will look at your BL profile and if it is only dofollow there could be a red flag for further inspection.... I rather not have Google poking around in my BL profiles

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lexilexi

15 years ago

I wrote an entire section on link building from Q&A sites (such as Yahoo answers) in my Link Building black book. I thought 'what the heck' and decided to post it here, it's some useful info. There are lots of Q&A sites out there and some of them are not nofollow.

Q&A sites

Let's say you have a free resource of some kind available. There are a growing
number of "Question and answer" sites out there where there may be people
seeking exactly what you have to offer!

Can send very targeted traffic - and in some cases PR. I think this tactic is
better suited for traffic than PR - but be warned, looking at some of the scary
questions on certain of these sites, I occasionally wonder if I even want their
traffic! However, looking at the audience demographics of these sites using
Quantcast (great research tool by the way) shows that these sites often have a
broad, balanced audience demographic. The audience, in short, consists of all
kinds of people asking all kinds of questions.

I have read that on some of these sites it is possible to subscribe to certain
keywords and receive an email when such a question is asked - but I haven't
discovered that feature yet; anyway, something to look out for.

Yahoo! Answers - Home (links are nofollow as of Jan 2009) This is the
big one. According to http://www.marketingvox.com/draft-qu...leader-037442/ (2008) they had 74% market share for Q&A
sites. Use their "advanced search" feature to find unanswered questions related
to your keywords - nice.

Answers.com: Wiki Q&A combined with free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedias - was apparently still dofollow as of Apr 29th
2008, but when I tested it (Jan 2009) , neither the regular http://www. nor an
<a href=> tag created a clickable link out from a posted answer. Here's their
Advanced search - Answers.com - Question Search
also Answers.com - Help Center: Asking a Question on WikiAnswers - gives another
way to find questions. Hugely popular site – global Alexa rank 134 (Feb 2010).

GoFTP :: Home :: Fast, Free FTP Client - new site that has exploded in popularity in Q4 of
2009.

Help.com - I looked at this one but most of the questions are
pretty random and their search doesn't seem to be working. Not so highly
recommended (but maybe it will be fixed by the time you read this).

AOL Answers. Ask Us Anything - profile links are do-follow, links in answers are nofollow,
in questions are do-follow (Jan 2009)

Unasked.com : The Only Stupid Questions Are The Ones Left Unasked - only profile links are dofollow.

Even more to investigate:
Ask questions, Find answers - Askville
Ask Questions, Get Free Answers - Blurtit – global Alexa rank 1749 (Feb 2010).
Answerbag.com | Ask Questions, Get Answers, Find Information – global Alexa rank 1295 (Feb 2010).
Fluther: Tap the Collective
LinkedIn Answers - Home | LinkedIn
Lycos
Google Groups
AnybodyOutThere - Talk about it
Mahalo Answers
LinkedIn Answers - Home | LinkedIn
Ask Me Help Desk – global Alexa rank 6542 (Feb 2010).
http://www.qna.rediff.com
Ask Questions, Get Answers from Experts ASAP | JustAnswer
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/question_and_answer_sites.php

There are a growing mountain of these sites! Obviously the biggest ones will
send the best traffic – but the good news is that your answers on any of them
may be picked up by future search engine queries.

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somenathsen1

15 years ago

i think yahoo answers is nofollow.......you use some dofollow site to get backlink and improve SEO rank......

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Enzo Ewens

15 years ago

I would say Ask Yahoo answers with Targeted Keywords in mind as they rank faster in the search engines. Although it is no follow it doesn't mean it can't help with your site getting traffic.

What google says about no follow is that it doesn't PASS pagerank, but my tests reveals that no follows "might" be one of the ranking factors of Google so I wouldn't devalue it much.

Also it is more "natural" if you have nofollow links in your whole linkbuilding profile. Right?

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heshan

15 years ago

i think now yahoo answers does not allow ppl to post links and dont misuse it for spamming coz ur yahoo account can get deleted

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Victor Edson

15 years ago

The links are "nofollow" but that doesn't mean you shouldn't use the site.

If you're asking about it, chances are that you don't have a huge list with loads of push button traffic. So you could use it for free, easy traffic.

Just don't use it as a way to get your site to move up in the serps, or you'll be spinning your wheels for a long time.

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lexilexi

15 years ago

Agreed; seeking relevant links directly for the traffic that can come of them is a great link building practice and the traffic is independent of search engine whims!

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olakh

15 years ago

Yahoo answers help us to get backlinks.I also do yahoo answers to get good result.

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theseowork

15 years ago

From Yahoo answers you get traffic or no follow backlinks as well as..

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pilaruk

15 years ago

The great thing about Yahoo Answers is that you are building your reputation and that by helping people you could attract people to your business.

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jonnyhardbaked

15 years ago

Yahoo answers can generate good traffic. And getting traffic for me is part of link building campaign.

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jacked 15 years ago

Yea exactly jonny. I have had some amazing success before while using Yahoo Answers to generate traffic to my money site.
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sane1

15 years ago

So great for traffic and useless for links?

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HorseStall

15 years ago

Write regular good quality answers and link to additional information on the site.

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kayelopez2012 14 years ago

you can use them to generate traffic.
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milliondream

14 years ago

The method you propose has been around forever and it works. However YA traffic alone won't get great results. You want to get those pages optimized to that you can get residual search engine traffic.

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webdse

14 years ago

Originally Posted by redstanford

has anyone figured out how to get backlinks from Yahoo Answers without leaving your site's URL in the comment like you see with a lot of spam replies.

You can always leave a link in resource box. If your answers are meaningful and they are getting good number of votes then the same nofollow will work as do follow no doubt.

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CyborgX

14 years ago

Yahoo answer is good but sometime its effective or sometime not because Yahoo answers gives you maximum bounce rate

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ProSence

13 years ago

Of course, Yahoo Answer is good and it gives good result in SEO too, instead of getting traffic.

Yes, it is nofollow but it has higher authority then other sites.

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pinkhand

13 years ago

Originally Posted by redstanford

has anyone figured out how to get backlinks from Yahoo Answers without leaving your site’s URL in the comment like you see with a lot of spam replies.

Good question..I have worked on yahoo answers and after certain level I was allowed to put my link in the answer like it was clickable link..I got many backlinks from it when I cheked my analytics .It was approximately 80+ visits

but after some time I was banned to participate in yahoo answers.So I also dont know how one can get backlinks all time from yahoo.:confused:

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KateHunter

13 years ago

Don't post a link that is not relevant to the question and answer, and don't post the same url many times from the same account (even if it's relevant) or you will get your account banned by yahoo.

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smodha

13 years ago

Like any popular forum, Yahoo Answers is better utilized for the traffic it generates.

If someone posts a question like "how do I treat acne?" and you reply "I suffered from acne for years. Here's what I did <insert solution>. If you want more information then checkout my page here <point to your acne site>".

The targeted traffic you generate outweighs the value of the no-follow link.

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blogfreakz

13 years ago

I think right now for yahoo answers it no longer allows click-able links directly to the answer as oppose to the other answers that I found that have them.

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RaySaj

13 years ago

backlinks do need to be diverse so do use various manners to create the website......

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carol18

13 years ago

i have tried yahoo answers but it was completely useless!

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STLSEO

13 years ago

I can't believe people are still interested in this tactic. :rolleyes: This was SO 4 years ago (and now probably has little or no link value).

You should probably be spending your time on writing compelling content and creating contextual backlinks.

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apnavarun

13 years ago

I just want to say that even though yahoo answers back links are no follow, It helps in getting traffic. I have found good jump in traffic when I use them.

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affilorama-portal

13 years ago

Yahoo answers links are no follow but you can still benefit from this site by leaving helpful advice and information. You can start putting links if you gained a certain level of expertise (i think). Aside from this, Yahoo answers are easily indexed by search engines and most of the time, they appear in the first pages of SERPs

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smodha

13 years ago

I don't understand why no-follow links get so much attention. In my opinion, it's one of the least important (and probably the most boring) IM topics to talk about.

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tahir100

13 years ago

Yahoo Answers links may not be good for SEO but can generate a bit of traffic...

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skwithu

13 years ago

Although I am also getting the same problem. The seo of your website will never improve but as matt cutt says its not always about do follow its about quality back linking. It may improve rank if 20-30 users daily are coming to your website from yahoo. I have see this on my blog previously when they have not banned me.

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moneyt

13 years ago

Hey You Use Yahoo to build your Business With it and also helping others at the same time.

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powerofschool

13 years ago

Yahoo answers are No follow links.
But You will get some traffic from yahoo , if you leave the links relevant answers.

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