Using Answers to Drive Traffic
Ten Easy Steps
As you may know, we’re all about helping you drive traffic. In fact, we did a pretty comprehensive series that was well received on that very topic (see below). But we don’t pretend to have all of the answers on how to drive traffic. Others sometimes know more than us.
Speaking of answers, did you know that you can use Yahoo! Answers to help drive traffic your site? Joel Caleb Thomas, a software engineer in India, certainly does. He recently posted an article to his LyeByte blog, “10 Steps to get Traffic from Yahoo! Answers,” that anyone who is serious about driving traffic should find useful.
Joel’s top tips include:
No. 1: Find a Category—”Yahoo! Answers is categorized, so look for the category which is relevant to your blog’s theme. If you take Lyte Byte for example, it’s related to Computers and Internet. There are so many categories, so obviously your blog will fit into one…”
No. 3: Answer with a Link—”Look out for questions which you can answer and give a link back to your site for more detail. When you answer, don’t just give a link, answer it in brief but…”
No. 6: Be a Top Contributor—”Yahoo! Answers also gives points for your answers. Two points for an answer, 10 points for the best answer and one point for voting an answer. As your points grow you [can] become the top contributor…”
No. 8: Lead Generation—”Apart from the traffic you get, Yahoo! Answers also gives lead generation. If you have ever wondered what to write about in your site, you will never run out of ideas now…”
Read the rest on LyteByte.com. Also, check out our series on driving traffic:
Signal to Noise
Leveraging Linkbait
25 Things to Think About Widgets
Secrets of WoMM, I
Secrets of WoMM, II
—Michael Mattis, YPN Answer Man
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April 17th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
The 25 things to think about widgets and ’secrets of womm, I’ are one link instead of two… might want to fix that.
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April 18th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Maybe removing the rel=nofollow would help. Don’t you think?
I used yahoo answers quite a bit (I have 3350 points), but, honestly, the incoming traffic from answers was rather low and I stopped using it because the rel=nofollow, makes it useless also for SERP.
Just my 2 cents.
Guido
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