Yahoo! Answers

I’ve been having fun while testing out this resource. It seems that Yahoo! Answers is not a bad little way to pick up some extra Web 2.0 traffic… Although it will never flood your site with hungry buyers.

Head over to http://answers.Yahoo.com sometime and give it a go just for fun.

Don’t waste your time Asking questions of course, go directly to the Open Questions in a category that your niche market would fall under. Read through any question titles that haven’t gone to voting yet and if your websites or opportunity would make a good fit as an answer to their question, don’t be shy about hopping in and letting the asker know about it.

Certainly you shouldn’t just say something obvious like: “This site has your answer: www.blah.com” No, the point in Y! Answers is to give them instant answers to their questions.

So spend a few sentences explaining it to them, and end with your link in the resource box. That’s it, you’re done, move on to the next answer.

I have found if I spend one hour a day doing this for about a week, I can have an initial boost of 20 site visitors a day for that week and then an ongoing 5 or so for a long time afterwards.

Surely it’s no great flood, but these are targeted visitors that can keep coming for a long time. –Especially when your answer is chosen as the best answer.

The only reason I only gave this free marketing method 2 stars in quality is that these people are hardly ever in the buying mindset… So this tactic is much better for people who are just looking to feed their AdSense farms than for those who are doing actual sales.