Yahoo Answers And Link Building!
admin on March 31st, 2009
I am sure that all of you have visited or used Yahoo Answers once at the time of reading this article. Lets start with some history of Yahoo Answers.
Yahoo! Answers is a community driven knowledge based website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005. Yahoo Answers allows users to submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. For every answer the members earn points which increase there Expertise level. Each level requires a specific number of points.
Level - Points
1. 1–249
2. 250–999
3. 1,000–2,499
4. 2,500–4,999
5. 5,000–9,999
6. 10,000–24,999
7. 25,000+
Yahoo! Answers has become the second most popular Internet reference site after Wikipedia, according to Comscore.
Yahoo! Answers is basically a community driven question and answer site where people ask questions and answer the other people questions. So how come this is related to link building? Well it is!
I bet that every single person who has used Search Engine come across a result with Yahoo answer in SERPS. And its not co-incidence or once in a hundred case. We continuously see Yahoo answers popping up in Google SERP’s especially for the three worded queries. Moreover as people are now using more smart queries like how to and where to, the usefulness and importance of Yahoo Answers doubles.
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Lets make this thing clear…Yahoo Answer not only helps you in getting targeted visitors but also increase the indexing and ranking of your website.
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As you can see many categories on Yahoo Answer, one of them is definitely addresses your website niche/subject or at least relate to your website topic. What you have to do is answer the questions in the specific category that relates or match with your website topic or subject. But how? Here is the step by step procedure to take the maximum benefit of Yahoo Answers Service.
1. Get a yahoo id. Make your profile. Set your screen name.
2. Now Go to Advance Option.
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3. Enter your keyword. Select the Search for keyword in Questions option. Then select the open questions option. Press search.
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Now you will be presented with all the questions that are still opened for answers and contains the word you searched. Answer the questions and for reference put wikipedia site and your website. You can also put some non-competitor sites. Don’t forget to add the http:// with your website as it makes your link clickable.
Now the link from Yahoo Answer is no follow but still its a link from Yahoo which has its own value. Moreover the No follow tag is just for stopping Google PageRank flow but not ranking or indexing.
Use the service wisely and you will be amazed with the results.
