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 high in google and other search engines pages
4) You can help others and build credibility for your business or website
Okay there are many reason 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 (Dont 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” |
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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 here.
It is a very useful article indeed. I have followed the step by step instructions. Thank you very much for posting it.
Nice Article for a great feature of Yahoo that can increase our traffic.
Thanks very much for your sharing.
You are Great.
Every of your blogs are very good.
Thank you very much for keeping us updated.
Thanks for the write up, I haven’t used Yahoo answers before, may be I will give it a go from now.
Hi I have been using Yahoo Answers quite regularly to drive traffic to my sites. It is quite a good feeling to be able to help others and when your answer is voted as the best.
this is really cool.. i started reading your artciles this week and immediately followed your steps. within a day, i was able to double the traffic to my site http://www.clubmateagenda.com. though it is still far from my goal, it is a very encouraging improvement. thanks!!!
I followed these steps, reached 512 points, I had 11 Best Answers, but then my account has been terminated for spamming. :/
So, be careful with the backlinks…
I will try It and it’s really very cool love it thanks for sharing It..
I have been using Yahoon Answers for 2 wks now and now on the level 2. It is a nice feeling and a motivator to get your answer selected as best answer.
Hi Lee, a great post as usual, and I am sure many people would have overlooked this as a source of quality backlinks.
http://www.makerealcashonline.co.uk
Thanks a lot for the help. I am curious about ur posting though.
This page and others that you mentioned are all nofollow links. I am not sure how it helps.
I started using yahoo answers a few months back to help send extra traffic to my website. After receiving approximately 20 Best Answer awards the page http://www.creativewriting-prompts.com/creative-writing-topics.html is currently the leading traffic generator on my site. It definitely is an excellent way to drive free traffic.
How did you manage to link your site without getting your account suspended?
great guide for yahoo answer. very simple and easy. i start today doing this. i have one question for thumbs up rating. how much point i get for that ?
Care is now needed when using Yahoo answers to answer anything and using a link. There was recently some software that came out that allowed you to “spam” Answers and that has meant they’ve cracked down hard on anyone using any kind of link. My account was permanently suspended after I posted a family recipe of mine, then mentioned my favourite cookbook that I’ve used heaps of recipes from and suggested it might also be useful to the reader.
Once you’re suspended. You can’t contact them with your Yahoo account to get your account reinstated.
Just be careful not to add too many unrelated links (to your answers) because you will risk yahoo account suspension and deletion of all posts – as I have found out
I used yahoo answers, i was in level 2 already, and really i gave answers what i think and wanted to help..But they are so sensitive and very easily drops down your points and etc. But for small traffic helped, i noticed.
i use Yahoo answers but it’s not take me much web site traffic.i will insist on it.
Okay. I’m going to try it now and I know …
Petr
I think this information about Yahoo answers is very useful for my site http://www.thecwizard.com which will give you the best C programming tutorial
it is really good points to earn web site traffic. But I think we have to reach a level of 200 points in order to get links posted inside the answers
Great Post I have been using yahoo for few months already and proved that it really works.
Thanks For sharing more tips,
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