Marketing your Site or Blog on Yahoo Answers!

by Devesh on January 17, 2010 · 18 comments






Want Traffic for your website from yahoo answers ? Okey I’ll tell you Brief about Yahoo answers. Yahoo Answers is the knowledge sharing Q&A based social network with over 90 million users worldwide with around 18 million users in the United State.

What Yahoo says about Yahoo Answers ?

“Yahoo! Answers is a place where people ask and answer questions on any topic. Why not share your facts, opinions and personal experiences with the Yahoo! Answers community? “

Why use Yahoo answers for Marketing your site or Blog ?

  • High PR Quality Backlinks.
  • Generate Organic Traffic .
  • Great way to brand yourself and attract new visitors to your website.

How to use Yahoo answers ?

Yahoo! Answers is a natural fit for any business where knowledge and expertise is your main sales tool but any beginners can also do perfectly.    So What you have to do, Find Questions related to your niche and start answering but Your answer should be different from others.

  • Post Answers with link to your high content Blog Or Site.
  • Be a Helpful member of the internet community.
  • Use the Yahoo Answers social network to make friends with every person asking or answering questions within that category. Yahoo Answers uses a one click Ajax tool for adding friends (contacts) which is very efficient.
  • Answer the questions that you can and link to your site as a reference when best suited.
  • If others are answering questions more accurately than you, star or vote for their answers, this is a good way to make friends.
  • Take two or three hours a week to perform this simple yet effective social media participation, then check your log files or stats to see if this is building traffic and conversions. If it is, rinse and repeat.
  • Also take into account that Yahoo Answers information will be indexed by Yahoo for a long time, this is not just a quick marketing fix.

P.S : Yahoo Answers is no follow as it is targeted for Traffic not for link Building.





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WP Themes February 1, 2010 at 10:45 am

Good brief and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you seeking your information.

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diego March 12, 2010 at 10:39 am

Hi,

Recently i register a new account on yahoo answer, then i'm trying to answer some related questions with live link to my blog inside. but when i proceed it, there is no live link to my blog. the only appear is text link (without live link) why it happen, is that because i'm still new one on yahoo answer (level 1) or how?

thaks
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samudary March 13, 2010 at 2:47 am

Very interesting strategy. I've never thought of using Yahoo Answers.

I'll definitely give it a try. Have you experienced any success from using yahoo answers Dev?
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DEV March 13, 2010 at 3:29 am

Samudary > glad you found it useful.

Sometimes i get 10% or 15% of my blog traffic from yahoo answers. :)
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Which Is Better March 20, 2010 at 9:10 pm

Thanks a lot for this information! As samudary said before “I’ve never thought using Yahoo Answers”. It is a good way to get some traffic.
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DEV March 21, 2010 at 2:22 am

You’re Welcome Yahoo Answers
Sometimes i get 10% or 15% of my blog traffic from yahoo answers.:)

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Blogging Tips March 31, 2010 at 1:35 am

But one main drawback is we have to wait for a certain level for our link to be live.
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nfl jerseys wholesaler April 22, 2010 at 11:04 pm

One again, your articles is very good.thank you!very much.

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Webmaster support April 30, 2010 at 4:14 am

But i have same question as asked above by ” diego “, i left my link on yahoo answers it shows as a text not href .
I am answering regularly there and won best answers.
Every help is welcomed
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Dental Jobs May 21, 2010 at 12:50 pm

Great post, I am registering with Yahoo answers straight away….great tips

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Eymard August 19, 2010 at 3:56 am

Nice, thanks for the share. Now, I will start to use yahoo answers to build links.. Quality answers should also be kept in mind.
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Bob from Technology Geek June 15, 2011 at 10:21 am

Great article, Devesh!

I have been thinking to start using Yahoo Answers! as part of our marketing strategy and I’m glad I came across your article.

Its great to find another tech enthusatic mind like mine. I’m bookmarking your blog to come back and read more awesome articles in future. Keep writing :)

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