Promoting Your Business On Yahoo Answers

I used to call this “Being A Voice Of Reason”, and still do. Here’s how Isabel Isidro gets traffic to her website by being such a Voice Of Reason on Yahoo Answers.

From PowerHomeBiz Blog

The best way to use a forum or a discussion board to promote your business is to become an active, reliable and an outstanding member of that community. Not through mindless spamming, but by becoming a well-respected member of that community who contributes well-thought out responses. People will then naturally check you out, and yes, visit your website.

This is the principle that governs my participation in Yahoo Answers, a free question-and-answer forum that is getting quite a following. The system is that you get points for answering questions, with the maximum 10 points if your answer is adjudged as the Best Answer.

I joined in February 2006 and have answered a total of 5,467 questions. I am the top answerer in the Business and Finance category with the most number of best answers in this category. As a result, we get a lot of traffic from Yahoo Answers including those who check my profile and see the link back to PowerHomeBiz.

The system of Yahoo Answers is far from perfect — e.g. voting for yourself can give you a lot of best answers because not too many users vote. But I’d rather vote for my answer than let someone who answered “don’t know” win as best answer (and totally dufus answers sometimes win — another flaw in the system).

Keep reading for 7 tips on getting a high rating at Yahoo Answers…

I liked the idea so much, I even tried it myself!

It was pretty painless actually. Happy marketing.