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Anyone still using Yahoo! Answers to drive traffic and immediately convert it into affiliate sales?

by theultimate1
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Hello Warriors,

There's this guy who pinged me on Yahoo! Messenger (He's been on my list for quite some time now), and we were discussing our IM stuff, among other things.

So, I ask him what's the latest greatest stuff that he's doing and is working for him! He says, Yahoo! Answers... He goes there, finds questions that are relevant to whatever (a Twitter automation tool, actually) he's promoting, answers them and makes a good number of sales every week.

He sends visitors to the offer page directly (with his affiliate ID tagged along), by using a domain redirect or something like bit.ly. The sale happens, and he gets the commission. Now, it's very possible that the sale happened on the visitors' first visit.. or later on, thanks to affiliate cookie dropping or something.

Is anyone here doing it as well? How do you go about doing it? I sure asked him, and what he told me wasn't quite convincing so I just knew where to ask... here.
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberSorcerer
    Yea I use Yahoo Answers regularly. But there's most to it than just answering peoples questions. A lot more if you want to be doing it right.
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    • Profile picture of the author theultimate1
      Originally Posted by CyberSorcerer View Post

      Yea I use Yahoo Answers regularly. But there's most to it than just answering peoples questions. A lot more if you want to be doing it right.
      Please elaborate on that.

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  • Profile picture of the author Karan Goel
    I use YA to drive traffic, and build links. I regularly use it,
    even though the traffic isn't much converting.
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    • Profile picture of the author cliam
      Hey I would like to know more about it too. Before this I was just answering people's question for fun, not knowing the power that Yahoo Answers can hold. Really grateful if anyone could shed some light on the process. :]
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberSorcerer
    Well it's no different that any other marketing avenue such as Twitter, Squidoo, Hubpages, etc

    You have to build your profile to match your niche, use your keywords and long-tail keywords with your answers and the topics that your niche is in, comment on other answers "again in your niche or expertise", basically participate so you can build up your points and start doing more such as rate peoples answers and other things that come with building up your level showing people that you're a contributor and active participant on YA.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    Yahoo answers is pretty useful. Cybersorcerer makes a good point about using keywords in your answers. You should approach SEO for Yahoo answers like you do anything else. Make sure you're writing a search-engine friendly response so if you are chosen as best answer, you actually get traffic to the question.
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    • Profile picture of the author arkhamindustries
      Originally Posted by JamesGw View Post

      Yahoo answers is pretty useful. Cybersorcerer makes a good point about using keywords in your answers. You should approach SEO for Yahoo answers like you do anything else. Make sure you're writing a search-engine friendly response so if you are chosen as best answer, you actually get traffic to the question.
      These are all great tips. I had never thought about using YA for traffic and/or backlinks. Thanks for the suggestion
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  • Profile picture of the author theultimate1
    Great, thanks for the responses everybody.

    I'm trying to understand what kind of answers really click; and cause the readers of those answers to click the links suggested. Would someone be able to pull up something from Yahoo! Answers and show us here?
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    • Profile picture of the author Mr Kevin
      Yahoo Answers also works well with movie type CPA offers. But they are more strict these days with regards to placing links though..My friend got banned from YA for placing a mostly legitimate link!
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  • Profile picture of the author Jenny4u1
    I am driving traffic from yahoo answers to my website but I do not have any affiliated things in my blog. I never sale any thing from Yahoo answers.
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    Yahoo answers can drive traffic to your web page. However, there are poor conversions. I feel it is a step above DIGG where 15,000 clicks per conversion is common. True it is inexpensive. Although your time is worth some money.

    It is not the answer you are looking for - sorry, I could not resist the pun.
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