Hi, Yahoo answer can be good for both - targeted traffic to the website and SEO value. Although the backlinks from yahoo answer come with Nofollow attribute, still it helps to diversify your website backlink profile. And that's why Yahoo answer should be an integral part of your SEO activity.
Also Yahoo! Answers and other similar websites are actually a greatly underused way to get inbound links to your website. By using them regularly in a fair and effective way, you can create a very useful and relevant community around yourself, over a period of time. Hope this will help you.
Yahoo Answer is much traffic driven platform, so it's most important to attract traffic. More benefits are:
-Live backlink, unlike directories or bookmarks.
-If your answer we'd be chosen best your link will display on top position in that thread.
-Since many search engines have specific bots to crawl new or updated threads for this type of discussion platform, so your link also be crawled with this updated info.
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