For pure SEO benefits I doubt it - Although im not 100% sure here

As for making a sale or whatever your goal is then yes, yahoo answers is amazing for targeted traffic and you should always spend some time answering queries related to your niche so you can drop in that source URL and get the traffic

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So does google see these links your leaving in answers to peoples questions as good related links.

It's almost like blog commenting.

so after getting a few you say they are worthless.

So what you do then, put 10 links on and leave it

Can I do both, or do I have to choose one method.

What about two Google answer accounts?

For linking building i don't think it's a goood idea..you can get better links using other tactics like guesting posting, commenting on high pr blogs, forums, etc.
As for driving traffic, yes, you can get very targeted traffic from yahoo answers. what i do is use those questions to create blog posts.This way i create content that people are actually in need of

Use yahoo answers as a way to demonstrate knowledge, build rep and traffic - a marketing tool not SEO.

I do this to resolved questions, I just add comments since I can't add answers. I started doing it like 3 days ago though. I came across the idea in an adsense PDF. It's not a bad idea and my traffic did rise a bit.

thanks everyone, great tips. I actually meant to say yahoo answers on my last post regarding two accounts lol.

They are nofollow but are still useful. It's good mix up your backlinks. YA also [can] bring traffic.... which is part of the goal, right?

Yahoo Answers can be useful in improving search engine ranking but its not going to make a significant difference on a non-performing site.

Yes, but mix Yahoo Answers with some comments on relative blogs and do that 10 times. I think you'd see some adsense $$.

I've experimented with this and it seems that yahoo answers has no effect on SERP

Yup..

I have seen many pages and I know many people who uses yahoo answers to build links for seo and traffic. But you need account of level 2+ to add links I guess.

if you want one unique way to build links with this. PM me.

KingPop is right, you have number of points to go to level 2. Meaning you need to answer some yahoo questions before getting that level.

I'm already on level 2. thanks or the suggestions again.

For quick targeted traffic this is my (now not so!) secret method - depending on how well you answer the questions you can have some great success - I use this method for my CPA offers.

For even more targeted results if you have not already done so you should set up notifications so that any questions asked in your niche get sent to you immediately.

Yahoo answers is also good for the search engines (short term) as depending on the topic the question/answer will show up super quick on google page 1.

Regards
Khemba

Yeah a lot of people use this strategy but its not really great for long-term SEO in my opinion.

Getting targeted traffic seems to be the best that yahoo answers can offer.

The key is to ensuring that the answers are genuine, and that your link is relevant to the question being asked! Don't get spammy! Throw in some answers w/o your link as well so that you're not viewed as a user solely attempting to advertise. This will make you come off as a more valuable source of information, and probably prevent a ban as well. KEEP IT RELEVANT!

I'm no SEO expert, but it couldn't hurt! Also, Yahoo Answers questions are ranked high in google - and therefore you can definitely get some nice targeted traffic through this method. Consider outsourcing this job to someone else as well. Maybe somebody on WF would be willing to do this for you! Don't spend too much time on it.

Best of luck,
Jon.

Really good advice here, really appreciate it. It's got me thinking on a plan.
Tell me if this is a good idea.

In my niche there are thousands of forums and blogs that are available to post reply's on where I can answer questions in detail. Throughout these forums and blogs I can leave a detailed answer and vary my links going to my pages on my money site. Vary the anchor text and use the domain and completely make it different each time.

I have a blog set up that relates to my niche and I can use it for tips and tricks and comparing products. I can also get ideas for posts to put on the blog through questions asked all over the internet and then link to my answers again using varied anchor text. But in my blog posts I'm linking to product reviews through keywords in the blogs posts. So my blog will act as a blog does in a link wheel.

Then you have yahoo answers to get targeted traffic through varied anchor text and so on. I see what people mean by not linking out every question. Look as if I'm genuine.

Do this every day for 2 hours or more and keep putting content on the blog and the money site.

I think this is a nice recipe for good ranking and link juice.
Thoughts?

Not sure how well it works but I'm trying it.

So far Yahoo answers have been virtually useless for me in terms of backlinks and revenue. I know the links are nofollow but Google webmaster tools does not recognize them at all. Also, the traffic that I get from Yahoo Answers is terrible in that my business is focused on the US and all of the traffic is from outside the US. The only thing I get is a few extra clicks. I am going to try commenting on a few resolved answers and see what happens. I will look for resolved answers that rank high on my keywords

Yeah, Yahoo Answer is the best way to get direct relevant traffic to website and it haven't provide any bad effects to website. Mostly people prefer Yahoo Answer strategy to get quality traffics and better result.

achieving higher level is very tough in YA

Pages from Yahoo answers appear in Google SERP for lot of long tail keywords. If you have links of your pages in those pages, you can get a lot of referral visits for your site. Also having links on Yahoo answers helps you to get link weight age for your site.

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SEO is SEO no matter what search engine it is it doesn't change the definition of the words...
unique content, build back links, do on page seo (use H tags and page title meta tags)... same as the other SE's...

Yes, it is useful which definitely can increase your sitewide traffic not with any particular keyword because answer sites have not any options to make anchor text, you just simple write your site URL.

Yahoo answer is the way for getting the traffic directly. you can also use it for online reputation, build credibility.

Yes Sure, Yahoo answering helps to increase website traffic. You can used link in source section.

Yes it is a Good strategy. One of the greatest edge Yahoo have still now over Google is their QA section...

Yahoo answering is best seo technique to get back links and boost traffic. It is a important SEO technique.

not worth the time and effort.

yahoo answer is very good for SEO, Take it

Be Careful of over promoting your website, Yahoo Answers will block you if they are supicious of you promoting your websites, it is a good alternative, but here are 5 SEO Tips that I go back to and this always helps rank my websites.

Yahoo Answer may be helpful but it is a lot of work to get to Level 2 and it is opportunity cost. You could be using all that time in creating many more useful links.

Yahoo Answers has over the years be long respected and its ultimately one of the surest way to build offpage SEO

Yahoo answers are very helpful for redirect traffic to your website.

Yes, Yahoo answer is a good way to get direct and targeted traffic.

without any doubt Yahoo answer is effective but its kind of tough to get accepted with the links in the answer or question. SO you have to make a very reputed account to run this campaigning.

Some SEO experts think NOfollow is almost waste and useless. But in reality Nofollow backlinks too have some value.. First traffic brought back from any part is valuable for traffic is a major factor for Page Rank which in turn is major factor in SEO ranking, Furthermore Even no follow links gets value when 2 sites have every factors (like DOfollow backlinks and other SEO factors) then Search Engines will start to consider Nofollow as a factor to decide rankings.

Once simple fact will remain true forever "Potential(related) traffic from any source is valuable and are helpful in Search Engine Optimization.

Your live links should be relevant on the topic your answering to.

Answering links are trustable links. Thing is that don't hit your website or promote through answering sites. Participate in related discussion which is same to your website niche. After that give a link or post URL to your website. 4-5 Answering links in a month is enough for your website but relevancy is must needed.

Everything that should be said has been said about yahoo answers. I recommend it for another source of link building

It's good for getting traffic but from SEO point of view it's not that great. It's simply too much work for nofollow links.

I am going to try few things with yahoo answers, I will let you guys know what the results are like.

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There is no harm in trying. Give it a shot and see what link juice it will bring your way.

I see that a lot of Yahoo Answers links get top ranking at Google...

But this is hard to put hyperlink especially you promote stuff. Because it is not a marketplace.