Utilizing Yahoo! Answers To Increase Traffic To A Website?

The primary reason I am asking this question is that I noticed some of the users at Yahoo! Answers supply a link (URL) to a particular website after they post a question or a detailed response (answer) to a question. I own a small online bookstore and I would like to know if posting the URL of my site after I answered or ask a question violate any restrictions of Yahoo! Answers. I reviewed the "community guidelines" of this site and it mentioned using Yahoo! Answers to accumulate customers for financial purposes is considered to be intrusive and borderline spam. That added to my confusion to what's legal and what's forbidden in terms of posting URLs on this site. I have heard around the grapevine that some marketers use your service to increase traffic to their business. That only increase my curiosity. The last thing I would want to do is post a link to my site and be labeled a spam thug and lose my privileges on this site. Thank you for the answers in advance.

Im afraid this is classified as 'Solicting', but many do do it.

Cant agree more with you.
Clogging up yahoo Q&A is totally unacceptable especially if people just want to ask silly questions!

YA explains its policy about this very clearly in the Help section here:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/answers...

Direct quote:
"You may also provide your business URL and contact information on your PROFILE page. However, please do not link to purchase pages in your answers, include your website and contact info in all answers, give low-quality answers coupled with links to your site, or solicit for clients. Do not answer questions directly related to purchases that can be made at your business (i.e. you own an electronics business and you answer a question asking where to buy iPods, or you鈥檙e a dentist answering questions about which dentist to go to), as this behaviour can be considered spam."

Many of these things DO get reported for spam or soliciting. Since this is a USER MONITORED site, whether something is reported and removed is often a hit-or-miss operation as to who is on and how much they feel like reporting.

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