Yahoo Answers is one of the largest content generated sites by users, thus making it be indexed easily by a variety of search engines.
This site works on the concept earn money for sharing your knowledge. Quality answers will generate you a good feedback while spamming of the site will get you a bad reputation. So be cautious on this site while you want to simple promote your links.
There are 26 Categories in Yahoo answers, so you have a varied choice to answer the questions of your choice. Always look for the categories of your choice, which you have expertise in so that you can answer the questions with ease.
When a person posts a question into any one of these categories it remains open for 4 days. You can only answer an open question and cannot answer a closed question, but you can read them as archives. If you are the person who has posted the question; you either have the option of picking the best answer or leaving it to the community to choose the best answer. Write regularly to have rapport with the members, which will eventually earn a better rating.
This is how the Yahoo Answer system works:
1. Points based System:
Yahoo Answers work on the points system, everything what you do on the site is measured in points; the below gives you an insight how this point system works:
Choose a best answer for your question: You get 3 Points.
Answer a question: You get 2 Points.
Log in to Yahoo! Answers Once daily: You get 1 Point.
Vote for an answer: You get 1 Point.
Have your answer selected as the best answer: You get 10 Points.
2. More Points more Levels:
There are also levels apart from the points to measure how active you are. More points equals to more levels.
You have levels from 1 to 7 where 7 is the highest. You reach level 1 when you have the points in the range of 1 - 249 points. You reach the top level i.e. is the 7th level when you have reached 25,000 points.
3. Lead Generation:
Although you cannot directly earn money from the points you collect, you have the other way of indirect marketing method called the lead generation. Whatever business you have on the web you can still make money from this Yahoo Answers website.
There are a lot of categories which you can actually have a look at. For example if you have the webhosting service, you can search the site for key terms webhosting. There will a lot of questions regarding this topic. Now when you find a question regarding hosting, instead of directly putting your website link or affiliate link you need to first explain the advantages of this hosting pack as a general Audience.
It should not look like a marketing that is the point! Now when it asks for a reference website, it’s now chance for your to mention your site which will be linked to that answer.
If you answer is selected as the best answer, the search engines will index that and you will have a lot of passive visitors from that link for up to 4 years. This is incredible as you have a steady flow of visitors just because of your answer for that for many years. This is free and effective way to increase your leads and thus money making options.
4. Post a Question:
It is one of the interesting ways to increase your sales for your website or another other affiliate marketing links. You will have to first do a research which is the keywords of your products doing well and in which category. You will then post a question in relation to your product as which is the best web hosting service. You will then wait for some days until you get responses within 4 days.
In the mean while you will post the answer with your second account login or will ask your friend or partner to post the answer for your with your affiliate link and your website as reference.
Now you will login with your first account and select the answer as the best answer. Here you are not only catching the attention of the visitors of the Yahoo answers website but you are also making your way for the search engines to index your question and answer.
There are a lot of strategies like these and you can follow the best one for you to promote your affiliate links or your websites.
