How many people here have tried Yahoo answers to promote their forum? Did it benefit your community much? I know I tried it, and got banned, so I never really tried again. How about you?
I, personally have never tried this but I have been told by many of my friends that it is very effective and can be used to gain a fair amount of traffic. Apparently the trick is to use a different username than the one that you have on yahoo answers and try to come off as though you read it on the forum instead of creating the content; hence possibly your ban.
I have seen many people doing it, one example would be: I have seen many like that^^^ Its just an example, not real.
You should re read the thread I think you didn't understand it, they really aren't banned just saying it to promote their websites.
Commenting on Yahoo Answers works pretty much the same way as blog commenting. It can be very effective, assuming the questions you are answering on Yahoo answers are related to your forum or site. To make your answer seem more credible, find a question that covers a similar topic as your forum, answer the question to the best of your ability, then list a specific sub-forum or page on your forum as your source, rather than the forum home page. That way it seems like less of an advertisement. If you are offering a truly helpful answer then you should not get banned. And, if you do get banned, couldn't you just as easily register for another Yahoo or Ymail account and then use that username at Yahoo Answers? I've got at least four Ymail accounts and different usernames for each account. I could use them all at Yahoo answers to promote my various sites, though I don't. But, you could. It just depends on what you feel comfortable with. Just keep your answers relevant and focus on helping others and the traffic will follow.
I do it not in the fake way like Kaiser has shown but I'll make a topic in my forum with the answer, then link them to the topic with the answer.
Actually, I've done the same thing with my blogs. I look for a question on Yahoo Answers and then go create a blog post with the same question and answer. Then go back and answer the question and link to it with my freshly created blog post. This works very well for getting relevant traffic to a site. This technique for using Yahoo Answers is far more effective than creating the post first and then hoping to find a near enough match later on.
