OK, I have to confess to putting a few sneaky reply posts on Yahoo Answers which have included a link back to our website.
I have simply searched for a suitable ‘open question’ and left a reply, in one case, somebody had been injured in an slip accident in a supermarket and wanted to know if they could/should claim compensation.
So I added a reply along the lines of – ‘the same thing happened to me and I used these people’, then put a link to the site.
The posts are still showing (to date) and have been up for a few weeks now and they are even being counted as valid back links to our site from Yahoo.
In addition Google lists questions and reponses high within the index, so we have been popping up on searches for ’supermarket accident’ etc’.
It seems that Yahoo Answers can be used as an excellent marketing tool as long as you are VERY careful what you write in your replies.
I also suggest answering other questions without any links, so maybe only 25% of your replies contain a link and you don’t look like a spammer.
Might be an idea to have a couple of yahoo accounts, just in case!
June 1, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Found it all very though provoking and mind expanding!