Generate Traffic and Links with Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers provide a community of knowledge with questions and answers for just about any subject and with a growing network of users, it is becoming a popular resource worldwide.
Anybody who can provide useful information about a certain subject can join today and start reaping the benefits that Yahoo Answers can offer. If you have a lot of knowledge regarding a certain subject, you can position yourself as an expert in your respective industry.
Site owners worldwide can use their knowledge and content on their website to actively answer questions on Yahoo Answers. By answering questions and linking to useful resources (on your website) you can be identified as an expert within your industry subject. By doing this you will build up respect within the Yahoo community which will attract traffic and links to your website.
Taking advantage of Yahoo Answers
When you answer a question on Yahoo Answers, the form you need to complete comes with a section to list websites as references for your answer. Although these links will have the NoFollow attribute in them, it will still attract users to follow the link through to your website. This could also generate new links from other websites which found your information useful.
You can look around the categories on Yahoo Answers to find questions you have the knowledge to answer. If your website has no useful reference to a question, you can write an article about the subject, upload it to your website and then answer the question with your website as reference. By doing this you will be providing your website with more useful and unique content as well as getting the word out about your new article.
Becoming an expert on Yahoo Answers
To get started with Yahoo Answers, you will need to open an account with them, write some information about yourself on your profile and then upload an avatar.
Then choose a subject category that you have knowledge about or a category that is similar to the subject of your website. You can then check this category for new questions as often as you like and select which questions you would like to answer.
Always keep in mind; you need to provide useful information to the Yahoo community. You want to build up your reputation as an expert in your industry and not provide junk information with spam links
If you find other people are answering questions with a lot of useful information, go one step further and spend more time answering the question as best you can and with more information.
With every question you answer, add the user that is asking the question to your friends list. Build up as many friends as you can within the category you have chosen, if you have answered questions with useful information your friends will keep checking your activity on your account for any new questions that you may answered. This will keep users coming to your website for information and could even generate new links.
With Yahoo Answers growing on a daily basis, this is the time to get involved and start to become a reputable expert with the community.
