Hi,
Okay in this post I’m going to dive right in a show you how to use Yahoo Answers to drive free targeted traffic to your website.
If its not obvious why you should be using Yahoo Answers, here are few reasons.
1) Yahoo Answers provides free traffic
2) The traffic it provides is targeted to your market
3) Yahoo Answers rank highly in Google and other search engine pages
4) You can help others and build credibility for your business or website
There are many other reasons why you should be using Yahoo Answers for the benefit of your website.
On with the guide.
How to use Yahoo Answers to get traffic:
1) You need to create a Yahoo account if you don’t already have one, it’s free and you can create an account here
Tip: enter your user name as something that sounds real, for example Lee Price. This will add credibility to your posts.
2) After filling all of the details and confirming your email address you should already be logged in. But if not login here
3) Click on your name which allow you to change all of your profile settings, add a picture for your avatar (profile photo) but leave all the other details as they are.
4) You are now ready to start answering questions, goto Yahoo Answers here
5) Click on the answer box and then choose a category related to your website or you can use the advanced search feature.
6) You should now of found some questions that need answers, answer each of these questions as best as you can and include a link back to your website if it’s appropriate (Don’t just start spamming links, you need to help people). You will notice that your link is not active after is been posted and this is because you need 200 points before you can post links. But once you reach the 200 point mark all of your links will become active so just keep answering questions.
The aim of the game is to have your answer chosen as the best answer, if your answer is selected as the best answer you get 10 points but also that answer is moved to the top of list and get more views than the other answers. This will start generating traffic to your website.
Here is the points table for yahoo answers
| Action | Points |
|---|---|
| Begin participating on Yahoo! Answers | One Time: 100 |
| Ask a question | -5 |
| Choose a best answer for your question | 3 |
| No Best Answer was selected by voters on your question | Points Returned: 5 |
| Answer a question | 2 |
| Deleting an answer | -2 |
| Log in to Yahoo! Answers | Once daily: 1 |
| Vote for an answer | 1 |
| Vote for No best answer | 0 |
| Have your answer selected as the best answer | 10 |
| Receive a “thumbs-up” rating on a best answer that you wrote (up to 50 thumbs-up are counted) | 1 per “thumbs-up” |
As you can see 200 points is quite easy to achieve.
Okay, get answering those questions.
I’d love to hear your results using this method to drive traffic, post your comments below.
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7 comments
Dallin says:
July 7, 2010 at 11:21 pm (UTC 0)
Great article! How long on average does it take to get to 200 points?
thanks, for sharing!
Dallin
CapetownHolidays says:
July 8, 2010 at 11:25 am (UTC 0)
Thanks for yet another valuable pointer to improve our SEO. I have long been contributing to Wiki Answers, which also gives links, but did not know about Yahoo Answers even though I have an old Yahoo account. I am a committed fan of yours.
Lee says:
July 8, 2010 at 1:18 pm (UTC 0)
It took me about three days, about 1 hour work in real terms.
sanjeev garg says:
July 17, 2010 at 12:46 pm (UTC 0)
Thanx for the great advice………i have really tried it and i got some points …….thank you………!!
sanjeev insan
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Visitor Convertor says:
August 10, 2010 at 2:43 pm (UTC 0)
Not bad for just answering questions. All you need to do is provide quality answers that the one who asked the question will appreciate and like.
putrajustdoit says:
October 29, 2010 at 5:49 pm (UTC 0)
Hi Lee,
Thanks, your info are very helpful. I’ve just known from you that from yahoo, I can get free traffic
Tjank you
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