Another reason why sites like Yahoo Answers are successful for business is that the people place their questions openly and whosoever has the answer can directly contact to that person. In this way the business reaches to the right customer at the right time. So the conversion rate is also higher. One thing that a user and a service provider has to take care while using such platforms in not to enter anything spammy. While answering the question you can also put your website reference at the end so that a user can find the right link as a proof of your services.

Now a days when Social media has covered such a wide area in everyone’s life platforms like Yahoo answers and Google Groups are indeed a good step where people at least cannot be deceived by wrong directions and fake services and they can select the solution of their choice.

Sometimes you can even get the experts advice for your questions. Be it a small or a big issue everything is answerable in just a fraction of second. In fact Yahoo answer gives you option to select the best answer to your question. This indeed encourages the users as well as advisors to use such platforms.