Make Money with Yahoo Answers

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Speaking of make money online, beside by using blogging, article and social media marketing etc, Yahoo Answers is another way to help affiliates to earn money online. With more than 21 million unique users in the U.S. and 90 million worldwide, Yahoo! Answers is the largest knowledge-sharing community on the Web. It’s an online community where anyone can ask and answer questions on any topic. It connects people to the information they’re seeking with those who know it. Everyone has life experience and knowledge about something, and Yahoo! Answers provides a way for people to share their experience and insight.

In the other words, it is a network of users that post questions on the site, and simultaneously, any other user is able to drop an answer to the question.

In regarding to the questions that posted by the users, there more than one answer may be given to a question on Yahoo! Answers and at the end of it, the user who posted the question can mark on of the answers down that he or she feels which one is the best answers to his question, then that answer is given as a “Best Answer” status.

Due to the nature role of the Internet – a place where an information medium and Internet marketing revolves around selling information to customers who are searching for it, Yahoo! Answers becomes one of the finest example of a centralized gathering of users who have profiles that are ideal for promoting a product to that solves their problem. Many marketers have discovered that Yahoo! Answers is a gold mine and it is an valuable avenue that they can creatively earn some money from.

For example, if you have a product that offers the solution to a very commonly experienced problem, if there are tons of people on Yahoo! Answers are searching for a solution of that, then you got a good chance to sell that product (if it solves a desperate problem), and you also have the potential to become an affiliate and generate profits by bringing buyers and seller together.

Ok, as an affiliate, here is how to make money with Yahoo! Answers:

1) Head over to Yahoo! Answers and type in the problem or keywords that is related to the product you are selling or promoting, use it to your advantage and do a little research or only answer those questions in which you have a definitive answer too. And then looking for those questions that have not get any answers, post your answer, because no other answers show up, your own reply stands a higher chance at being selected as the Best Answer, this will help get more readers to look at your answer.

2) Make sure the questions you have chosen and the answer is reasonably linked back to your affiliate product. If you are answering a question on “how to remove fleas from my dog”, do ensure that you are promoting a flea removal product. And make yourself an authority in your niche, supply detailed specific answers to the questions, link from your source and gain instant traffic to your link.

3) Get yourself a domain name that is highly related to your product or even contains your keyword. You can then configured this domain and redirect to your affiliate link.

4) Head back to Yahoo! Answers and reply to your chosen question with a useful answer. In your answer, you can tease the reader with give out 1 tip first and then tell them that if they want more tips, or a full breakdown to the solution, they can visit your site – a site is going to be your affiliate link. So when a reader click on your link and if it is converted, you will get paid your commissions. It means whenever someone looks at that question, they will be sure to see your answer, and if your answer is legitimate and knowledgeable, they are going to click through to your site. This equals cash in your pocket when it converts. It is that simple!

However, here are some of the things you need to remember when you are on Yahoo! Answers:

Don’t just go and put up some unrelated answer to a question and containing a link to wherever you want, it won’t help you do any good in the long run. Yahoo has placing filters in the place to detect duplicate questions, answers, comments and links. If you can put little effort into it, you can turn Yahoo Answers into a supplemental cash machine to fund whatever you need. If you look at as some type of way to make THOUSANDS of dollars, and if you find yourself answering the questions that you got no clue about, you will bring yourself into trouble because Yahoo has incorporated a “Report Abuse” button and all it takes is just one hit on that and then you gone.

So before you go ahead, you will need to know the rules of comments, answers and questions from accounts that can be accrued in a day.

To help you gain better results towards your marketing effort on the Yahoo! Answer, here are the Guidelines you should read before start to jump into the gold mine.

As affiliate marketers, there is nothing hard about marketing products that are not yours on Yahoo Answers. But you do need to have some good knowledge about the product you are promoting. In the other words, you need to make sure you knew exactly what your product about and how can it solve others problem. The more knowledge you have on the product, the better answer you will be able to give out. So you better aim to over deliver in your responses.

Till next time – happy sharing.

Cheers