Generate Targeted Traffic
Yahoo Answers is a source of very targeted traffic that many marketers overlook. The ease with which Yahoo close accounts puts many of people off.
The principle of Yahoo Answers is to ask and answer questions on a variety of subjects. It’s basically a giant message board. Some questions are very odd, whereas others are normal.
The answer quality varies too from the single sentence, to the rude to the outstanding. You want to be providing these high quality answers.
Firstly, people are only banned if they abuse the system and provide consistently poor answers. As long as you stay on the correct side of their terms of service and provide decent quality answers you will have no problem keeping your account. People have had the same account for some time and have accumulated thousands of points, whereas others lose theirs in a few weeks because they break the terms of service.
Succeeding with Yahoo Answers means finding questions that you can answer that are relevant to your website.
There are three main benefits from Yahoo Answers.
1) People read your answers and come to your website
2) If chosen as the best answer, you will receive traffic from your answers search engine listing
3) You can get a backlink from your answer which will enhance your sites rankings
You benefit from links because Yahoo Answers thought of as an authority site.
To find the best questions to answer you need to use the advanced search feature. Only look through questions opened in the previous week. This will give you the most recent questions. You then have to go through each question and find which ones you can answer suitably.
In order to avoid getting closed down and to get voted as the best answer, you need to offer high quality answers. You have to read the question and ensure you understand it fully.
Start your answer with a greeting, e.g. “Hi there” or “Hi, thanks for your question”. This builds the vital rapport with the questioner and makes them feel well disposed towards your answer.
Offer a good quality answer that actually answers their question and sign off with something friendly like “Hope this answers your question” and your name.
You should only put your link in your answer directly if it has been asked for. Putting your website address in every answer is likely to get your account shut down. Your website address needs to go in the resources box below. Don’t worry, it will get seen and clicked on, particularly if your answer is voted the best answer.
Yahoo Answers provides an excellent method of acquiring targeted visitors to your website. It works well for most types of sites and some people earn decent money just from Yahoo Answers. Use it well and wisely and you can receive many benefits from it.
