Comments on: MBL Community: 10 Steps To Get Traffic From Yahoo Answers

By: Carl Strohmeyer

Carl Strohmeyer — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:25:17 +0000

Even though I go there, I visit Yahoo Answer more to try and add a little sanity to the sea of mis-information that is out there. If you are truely an expert in your field and also have a related service (in my case an aquarium information page), you will find this an excersise in futility. The way this is structured rewards, pasters with too much time on their hands to be posers. The Top Contributors get rewarded for passing out poor advice that is a danger to many who love the aquarium hobby. Just as of wrting this I was thumbed down for well reseached up to date information while a “top Contributor” was given best answer was very anecdotal.

By: mosey

mosey — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:43:08 +0000

I’ve found for more specific things -the yahoo question is listed within a few days of posting on google.

By: Everton

Everton — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:03:17 +0000

@Zane

Depends on how you approach it. If you pick questions that are obviously going to get a lot of people looking for the answer, then you can get good traffic quickly.

You could even write posts based on what you can see people are looking for help on and then post a link to your post. That way, you’ll get Google traffic from people looking for the same solution as well!

By: Mr.Byte

Mr.Byte — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:52:40 +0000

It gives sustained traffic rather than spikes at a time like digg or stumbleupon

By: Zane

Zane — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:08:37 +0000

hmm, never thought of that. Traffic, maybe, but it’s gonna be difficult to bring in a lot of it.

By: mosey

mosey — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:41:54 +0000

I actually use Yahoo answers quite a lot as its a quick way of getting (often) up-to-date answers (compared to Google) and is less confusing to use than Digg (imho)