You can leave a links in your answer.

I understand, but my point is that I simply have not seen any users doing this. I've looked through a ton of posts and the only thing I see is somebody leaving their email address for more info, or including a URL to cite a source or location for further info.

Isnt yahoo answers no follow anyway?

A very quick google search seems to indicate that it either is or was such that you need a certain point total / level before your links are no longer nofollow links. I'm not sure if that is currently true or not.

How do I scan a page to test if the links are nofollow?

If you find your website is in context with question, you can cite your website at the 'resource box'. That's the way how internet marketers using YA for getting traffic to their websites.

You can leave links in your answer but it will take some time to be able to do that without triggering spam or things like that. People on certain levels will be the ones to be able to do that consistently without having ban thrown on them.

Thanks seobuzz - I appreciate the clarification. In this particular case, it's an online store, so that won't work at all - however, I'll keep in mind for my other sites.

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By a simple search with "gifts" I found 1,265,795 relevant results on yahoo answers. And if you answer 1 or 2 of those questions on daily basis, I don't think it will be considered as spam.
Now a days most people are preferring to buy gifts from online store. And you can cite your store URL if you think it is relevant.

Hey lbeachmike, just had some advice regarding this. Since you're promoting your eco-friendly party favors business might I suggest to do some write ups in Squidoo, Do some postings on Instagram and join Arts and Crafts forums. That way, much needed targeted traffic would go to your website.

Yahoo Answers is surely a grassroots approach, but it can only do so much to rank on Yahoo/Bing. How about Google and the other Search Engines? do you have a plan for this?

I hope my suggestions could help you, this is the targeted traffic that your business really needs.

Thanks seobuzz. I'll take a closer look at some of those gifts-related posts and try to find some where the poster included a store URL to emulate.

@NRabosa - I appreciate the input and I had found Squidoo listed on this page -

List Of Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic, PageRank

So I was planning to do a post there and previously on something like ezinearticles .. but further reading seemed to suggest that there was some controversy as to the benefit of doing so (and possible present or future detriment) ... so I was sticking with Plan A, which is indeed posting on relevant forums and commenting on relevant blogs. As of now, the highest ranking of those that I've found is a PR4, so I expect it will take some time to get any traction, but if this is effective, I'm okay with being patient and persistent.

My wife is already doing postings on Instagram and other social media.

When we initially purchased this site a year ago, the original owner apparently changed her forum signatures so the several thousand backlinks suddenly vaporized and the site's traffic took a major hit. This was followed by our redesign of the site from an ASP/Windows site to php/Unix, so all of the URLs also changed, thus creating a double-hit.

As such, we're now essentially starting from scratch with regard to building traffic to the site.

Thanks for your help - it's much appreciated.

Just check it again because Yahoo question and answer is very effective for ranking and reason behind is it allows a signature where you can drop your link and get a better traffic. Yeah some people still think that Yahoo question and answer is full of spam but as every people have their own point of view.

I will give it a try. Are sites like ezinearticles, articles base and goarticles effective for ranking or is there more risk of a Google penalty?

Yahoo answers allow links in the source, but you must have second level and your link should be relevant to the question that has been asked.

@Yukon - Well, trying to learn all of this as a crash course has been pretty overwhelming due to "learning" something one day and then learning the next day that it is either not true, possibly not true, probably not true or no longer true

Can you recommend any good resource for current productive guidance on this topic that is not trying to sell me an ebook? How did you learn about SEO?

@Yucon - Thanks very much for this. This is probably the most useful help anybody has provided thus far. I'll need to further pursue what you've discussed and may ultimately have some follow-up questions but your explanation is nicely laid out and extremely clear.

Thanks again for your help.

Just spam away really. As long as you provide an answer thats helpful, you can put your link in the source section. But i have used it as a traffic source with just blatant spamming using hundreds of fake accounts,

If you are just spamming though thats when the community flag your answers and gets you in trouble. Even then, Yahoo has been very lenient with accounts lately and just delete the answers without banning the accounts.

Like yukon said though, YA can't be used as a backlink and wherever you heard about links being followed after you reach a certain level is a lie (i am level 2). The only difference is after you reach level 2+ your links will become ahrefed, before that they are just references (no ahref code).

YA is great for traffic though but if your relying on it as your sole source of traffic your seo strategy needs serious help.

Nice question but it is true you can simply post link in answer box with your content.

You can place your website in your profile for a backlink and you can also answer questions in your niche and place your website as the reference or example.

When you enter in the Level B you can insert your blog link in Source field. You must answer those question which related to your blog/site niche to get traffic. And the source link also works as backlink. It will helps your blog/site to get a GOOD position in search engine results page.

In yahoo answers, you can see loads of communication through the question and answers. In teh yahoo answers, we can see more conversations, most bloggers take a look at the sites. It is popular and has great reputation. Also we can see repeated visitors in the site. You can give link to your website in the "source field" which appears beneath the answering column. Once you are a Level 2 user, you can post links to your website.

Yahoo answers allow linking in the answer and for linking we have two option one is direct linking and another is of from Source.

You can get pretty good traffic from YA, but doing it yourself is a waste of your time, hire someone on fiverr for that, you will get very cheap lead generation system.

Yahoo answers are useful, can bring traffic and should be included in marketing camping.

yahooanswers is a best Q&A site and the main benefit is, We can share our site link on the answers.

After which level we can share link of website in answer.........Hi guys PLZ answer me

Once a question gets resolved, you can't post on it. These are also the questions that you see indexed in Google for some of the high competition keywords. Unless you're able to get your answer (with a link) on a page like that, don't expect much long term traffic.

From my experience, you can go on an answering spree for an hour, and end up with 30-50 visitors a day for about a week. After that, it dries up unless one of those pages gets ranked for something.

simply after adding your reply , put your links in the resource box and it's done.

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There are different levels in Yahoo Answers. Once your reach level 2, your account is eligible for live links.