Yahoo Answer Alerts is a great new service for affiliate marketers, bloggers and anyone who wants to take advantage of the traffic and potential of Yahoo Answers.

Yahoo Answer Alerts is going to revolutionize how affiliate marketers use Yahoo Answers!

What is Yahoo Answers?

Yahoo Answers is located at www.answers.yahoo.com and receives literally 1000s of question requests per day. Yahoo Answers is a powerful tool for affiliate marketers and bloggers to open the lines of communication with potential customers by posting answers to questions.  As person who asks a question if referred to as the ‘asker’. To become an asker or an answerer, you can login with your Yahoo profile, or create a free account.

What is Yahoo Answer Alerts?

Yahoo Answer Alerts is a web service that monitors Yahoo Answers for new questions twice an hour. We would like to monitor Yahoo Answers more often, but we don’t want to go against Yahoo Answers’s Terms of Use. We are able to retrieve the 50 recent questions asked for all topics via Yahoo Answers’s RSS feeds. Receiving email alerts about hot question topics is a wonderful thing for an affiliate marketes or blogger. The goal of posting answers to Yahoo Answers questions is to build a back link to your website, affiliate landing page, blog – or all 3!

Who uses Yahoo Answer Alerts?

Yahoo Answer Alerts can be used by anyone, but Yahoo Answer Alerts’ service is mainly targeted to affiliate marketers, bloggers, and product-selling website owners.  Affiliate Marketers: Affiliate marketing is all about building back links to your landing page to earn a commission when the customer makes a purchase. By answering questions at Yahoo Answers, you can find your customer asking a question that pertains to your product.

Example: You have Yahoo Answer Alerts monitoring the keyword ‘diet’. You will receive email alerts each time a new question has the keyword ‘diet’ in the title, description or category name. An affiliate marketer can be first in line to give their well thought out answer that precisely describes a valuable solution to the asker’s question, and a helpful link to more information (your landing page), can also be provided.

Bloggers: Blogging can earn revenue for a blogger in many ways. Affiliate commission, direct product sales, and advertising revenue (Google Adsense) are just a few ways bloggers can make money. Bloggers are just as interested in Yahoo Answer Alerts as affiliate marketers.

Product Selling Website Owners: A website owner selling jewellery or any product can reap the benefits of Yahoo Answer Alerts. Yahoo Answers is a marketplace of customer’s asking questions. Some people are looking for advice, such as product reviews, and others just want to find a solution to their problem – “where can I buy…”.

Example: An asker posts a question about where to buy crystal figurines. You, or someone you know, has an online store that sells crystal figurines. They either have a brick & mortar store, and online store where they have their own product, or they have a drop-shipping account and they just fill the orders and another company delivers the products.

If you’re promoting multiple product niches you may want to create many different Yahoo accounts to post answers. Grouping all your answers under one Yahoo Answers profile will make you look like a ‘generalist’ and will also expose all your other answers – potentially exposing your other niches to other affiliate marketers.

Be the 3 C’s

Be courteous when posting answers to questions. Take the time to post an informative, positive answer to maintain a good name for your Yahoo Answers profile.

Be creative when posting your answer. Don’t just put a one sentence reply to the question – give some detail, show your expertise, and build a name for your Yahoo Answers profile. The more effort and quality you put into your answers – the better chance your answer will be selected.

Be cautious when posting answers to questions. Utilizing Yahoo Answers as a marketplace to post answers that promote affiliate links and products can potentially get your Yahoo Answers profile flagged or banned. Be sure you understand Yahoo Answers’s Terms Of Use when posting answers, to ensure you don’t post an answer that goes against the rules. Don’t be spammy with your answers, pick and choose questions to reply to, or reply to questions over a number of days – so not to raise suspicion.

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