MBL Community: 10 Steps To Get Traffic From Yahoo Answers

April 12th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Mr.Byte who has crept into  the top 10 commentators (in the sidebar) on Connected Internet has put together a great post detailing 10 Steps To Get Traffic From Yahoo Answers (also on Digg now). The post clearly states that the blogosphere tends to fixate on how to get traffic from Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Google etc but tends to forget about Yahoo! Answers.

In my referrals I often see traffic from Yahoo Answers where a user has posted a link to my site as an answer to a question. I definitely think that putting in the effort to regular post and answer questions on Yahoo Answers will pay dividends in traffic.

I think the post is definitely worth reading as it might allow you to tap into a under used source.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by mosey on 12 April 2007:

    I actually use Yahoo answers quite a lot as its a quick way of getting (often) up-to-date answers (compared to Google) and is less confusing to use than Digg (imho)

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    Comment by Zane on 12 April 2007:

    hmm, never thought of that. Traffic, maybe, but it’s gonna be difficult to bring in a lot of it.

  3. #3

    Comment by Mr.Byte on 12 April 2007:

    It gives sustained traffic rather than spikes at a time like digg or stumbleupon

  4. #4

    Comment by Everton on 12 April 2007:

    @Zane

    Depends on how you approach it. If you pick questions that are obviously going to get a lot of people looking for the answer, then you can get good traffic quickly.

    You could even write posts based on what you can see people are looking for help on and then post a link to your post. That way, you’ll get Google traffic from people looking for the same solution as well!

  5. #5

    Comment by mosey on 12 April 2007:

    I’ve found for more specific things -the yahoo question is listed within a few days of posting on google.

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    Comment by Carl Strohmeyer on 17 April 2007:

    Even though I go there, I visit Yahoo Answer more to try and add a little sanity to the sea of mis-information that is out there. If you are truely an expert in your field and also have a related service (in my case an aquarium information page), you will find this an excersise in futility. The way this is structured rewards, pasters with too much time on their hands to be posers. The Top Contributors get rewarded for passing out poor advice that is a danger to many who love the aquarium hobby. Just as of wrting this I was thumbed down for well reseached up to date information while a “top Contributor” was given best answer was very anecdotal.

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