In my earlier post , I explained how Yahoo answers can be used to promote a blog. In this article let I share with you the strategy that can be used to promote a blog. But before that some basic things.

Choose a yahoo screen name which serves best to your field of expertise or the subject you blog about. This will give others an obvious clue about the reason for your presence. Choose a yahoo screen name that says something about you and/or your blog.This will help you cement your yahoo presence. Don't keep the default profile pic; instead put your photograph in your profile.

How to promote the blog:

Choose the particular blog post or the entire blog, which you want to bring traffic to or promote; and put it in your Yahoo answers profile. You have to keep these links handy, as you’ll also be using these, when you answer a question.

Now although Yahoo answers forbids you from promoting your links, while answering a question; it allows you to add those links to your answer which in a way enrich an answer.

For example if you answer a question—“How to add a widget to blogger blog”; you can add a link which you think is the source of your answer or helps in detailed explanation.

Now there are two ways by which you can promote your blog content or your links.

If you blog about a particular niche, then you just keep answering questions stacked under the yahoo answers category/subject same as that of your blog subject.As you progress to higher levels, you’ll increase visitations to your Yahoo Answers profile.

But if you blog about a number of things, on a single blog; then the best way to promote your content is to answer those questions which are related to your recent post. For this you first have to do an advanced search on yahoo answers for the topic that promotes your recent post, if you chose to answer it. And while answering the question, you just add that particular post as a source or as a link assisting explanation.

And one more thing, post a thoughtful answer. An answer which honestly tries to solve the problem of the questioner. This means adding your blog post link to your answer only when you think your post explains or assists the answer best. If you think contrary, then add the link, which fits in the situation; no matter if some one else’s.

What is Yahoo Answers:

Yahoo Answers is a service, where people can find answers to their questions. All one needs, to be able to post a question at Yahoo answers is a yahoo email id.

When a user posts a question at yahoo answers, he/she in a way makes a request to other users to help find answers. So whenever a question is posted by a user, other users provide answers to the questions. The answers appear as a list below the posted question; which can be easily scanned by the questioner to find the answer which answers the question, best.

What users get for contributing answers:

In exchange of the effort Yahoo users put to find answers to the questions; a user gets 2 points for each answer. In addition, if a user’s contribution/answer is chosen the best, either by the questioner or by yahoo answers community, the user gets 10 points as a reward.

The points so earned, catapult a user to progressive levels. Higher the pointed earned, higher the level reached. The higher the level, higher is the popularity of the user in Yahoo answers community.

But apart from this, a user also gets traffic to his/her blog for contributing answers.


Bring Traffic to your Blog using Yahoo Answers:

When you use Yahoo Answers, you bring traffic to your blog in this manner:

--When as a user, you post answers to other users’ questions, you increase the chances of the other contributors and the questioner, visiting your yahoo Answers profile (So make sure you put the blog you want to bring traffic to, in your profile).

--Contributing answers to the questions which match your interest or expertise, establish you as an expert in that niche. So people pay attention to what you say, not only at yahoo answers but also at your blog.

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So start using Yahoo Answers and bring the most valuable thing for a blog Traffic.