I bet you didn’t know there were two great ways to use Yahoo Answers that can help you put more money in your pocket with an online business?
Using Yahoo Answers for Content Development
Using the "Advanced Search" option over at Yahoo Answers lets you search for questions that have been asked by specific keywords allowing you to "spy" on what questions people have about your market and topics. This is a great tool for a few reasons:
1. You can get a general feel for demand on the topic by the number of questions asked – if you find none, that’s not good, try some other keywords and make sure your not missing something.
2. You get a very good cross section of questions that you can summarize and organize into the makngs of articles, special reports, a course or a book or ebook making the job of discovering opportunities, topics and outline sections much faster/easier.
3. You get the benefit of looking at the "language" your market uses to describe certain things – this is useful when writing your book title, headlines for your webpages or ads, article titles, and website copy. By understanding how people describe their questions, you get a leg up on your competition.
Using Yahoo Answers for Getting Traffic
There is growing awareness about the benefit of sourcing some of your own content when answering questions for Yahoo Answers.
I have a few in this morning and will report back on the results.
Ideally, you want to be chosen best answer for a particular question – something you can do by both providing relevant and complete responses that respond well to the poster’s question AND by choosing questions that have few quality responses (luckily quality responses are few and far between)
By placing a strategic (non commercial) link into your quality response and then citing your site as a resource, you can often drive some very relevant traffic to your site.
Give Yahoo Answers a try – I think you’ll be impressed by what you find.
Jeff
