Internet Marketing the Simple Way

Before I talk about the Yahoo Answers, if I have left anything out or you know of any other way to get more traffic, then please share with the audience/readers by leaving a comment below.

What is Yahoo Answers?

Yahoo Answers is a community where you can submit any questions or answers to those questions asked by other members.  You will earn 2 points for answering each question, and 10 points if your answer is chosen to be the best answer by multiple votes.  However, it will cost you 5 points per question that you ask.  Anyway, it is a way to share of knowledge, help others, and earn points based on quality of your answer.

How Does it Drive Traffic to Your Blog?

If you answer to a question at the Yahoo Answers and you leave the URL link to your website, the person who asks the question would go to your website and finds the answer(s) or tips to the question.  However, if your answer is the best one, there are going to be more than one person goes to your site.  This happens when other searchers who had the same question as the person who posted the question at Yahoo Answers, googled the same keyword related to your answered.  There will be a lot of people would go to your site.  The more people go to your site, the more traffic you are going to get, not to mention the back links.

What Do You Have to Do to Get Traffic from Yahoo Answers?

1. Open a Yahoo Answers account if you do not have a Yahoo email account.  Pay close attention to your profile.  Fill out as much information as you can.  Include your best photo so that your profile looks like real people.
2. Next, click “Answer”, go to category section under “all categories” and click the category that is related to your keyword niche or your blog.  Or you can go to the advanced search of Yahoo Answers, enter your keywords into the keyword field.  Select  “Questions” under search keyword match in.  Select category.  Then select “Open questions—best answer has not chosen” and click “Search” button.
3. Lastly, answer them and leave your URL link back to your website for more detail.  Sooner or later, you will see more traffic coming from the Yahoo Answers if you keep answering to the questions related to your keyword niche of your blog every day.

Tips:

1. When you answer those questions, give a brief explanation and convince the person who asked the question that he would get more detail by clicking the link to your website.
2. Put your effort to provide the great answer so that you have a chance to be selected as the best answer.  And when your content makes to the top of all the answers, you will get a continue traffic from that question.
3. When you give the link, make sure it is going to blog post that answers to the related question, not to the index/main page.  If the person got the answer, he surely would  probe around to see what is your site about.

Note: Do not leave a link to your sales page because it may consider as a span and you can have your account suspended.  It is a good way to use this site and stay within their terms and policies while continuing to build your reputation as an expert in your particular field.

So, is it Worth Your Time?

In my opinion, it is worth it even though it takes a lot of time, but you gain more than the traffic to your site.  You lean what is the hot topic that people are talking about.  Moreover, you can add another blog post about that hot topic and you can continue to get more traffic to your blog.

What Do You Think?

I love to hear your thoughts about this blog post.  So please leave your comment below.

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