How to Get Blog Traffic From Yahoo Answers

             Yahoo Answers is a bustling question and answers community. Members may pose questions or answer questions asked by other members. It is a popular and successful platform. It has survived the challenges posed by other such communities, particularly Google Answers! Here, in this concise article, I will share with you some effective tips that will help you get blog traffic from Yahoo Answers.

               Just focusing on organic traffic would be foolishness. That is because SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategies changes from time to time. The factors helping you to rank high now may take a beating in the next algorithm update! Just take a look at the blogs, which suffered huge traffic loss post Google’s algorithm updates in the recent times. Thus, it makes sense to focus some effort towards building up sources of referral traffic. When talking about referral traffic, the first thing that comes to our mind is- Social Networking sites. This is followed by other sources namely- social bookmarking, forums, communities etc.
               Yahoo Answers, as a source of referral traffic, is often overlooked even by the smartest of bloggers. According to me, with the right strategies, it can be mould into a source of consistent referral traffic. Before learning how to get referral traffic using it, let


Out of the many advantages, the following are the key ones-

#1 More sales, conversions

               If your blog is all about selling/marketing products, then the extra traffic can very much be converted into extra sales! You see, Yahoo Answers is a PR7 site, which is trusted by many! So, a link to your blog from it carries some ‘weight’!

#2 Increased reputation and exposure

              Well, this is an advantage of sharing links on Yahoo Answers. Basically, it is a ‘problem solving’ site. Thus, any link you quote or share there is aimed at solving problems. Thus, with the number of problems you solve, your reputation rises! Ultimately, this is good for your blog too! Along with this comes added exposure, which is also crucial to a blog’s success!

#3 You’ll get repeating visitors

              Yes, this is an interesting prospect. A visitor who comes back to your blog for more, later, is a valuable asset. With Yahoo Answers, you’ll get just that. When people see that your blog is good at ‘solving problems’ and for getting solutions, it is more likely that people will bookmark it or visit it again on a consistent basis. Interesting prospect, isn’t it? Now that we’ve ran through the list of different advantages, let’s now get to know the methods of getting traffic. Here are some effective strategies that you should try out-Getting traffic to blog from Yahoo Answers

              Before we start, it is a must that you should have a Yahoo id. You may log in there using your Facebook id also and complete your profile later.

After that, follow the tips listed below-

#1 Become a level 2 member

              Yahoo Answers works on ‘points’ system. When you answer a question, you are awarded 2 points for your efforts. While signing up, you are provided with 100 points. New member belong to ‘Level 1’. Upon answering questions and accumulating points, a member is promoted to ‘Level 2’. To become a level 2 member, one should amass 250 points. An easy way to get to this level is by leaving really good answers. Because, if your answer gets elected as the ‘Best Answer’ by the poser, you’ll be awarded 10 points extra! Thus, this makes journey to achieve 250 points much easier! But why reaching level 2 is a must, you might ask. This is because, if you want to leave a ‘clickable’ link to your blog, along with the answer, then being level 2 member is mandatory. Basically, getting traffic using Yahoo Answers is by leaving/quoting links of your blog posts along with answer to the relevant questions. Now, in case of a level 1 member, the url left wouldn’t be clickable. And people these days are too busy to copy and paste the url to the address bar of their browser to get a glimpse of your blog!

               But, in case of a level 2 member, the url left is clickable. This highly increases the chances of it getting clicked. The more the clicks, the more the number of visitors! Thus, becoming a level 2 member is of utmost importance.

#2 Finding the ‘hottest’ and ‘most sought’ questions to answer

               This is the most crucial part. Getting consistent traffic from Yahoo Answers will only be possible if you satisfy this aspect. You must find a question that lots of people ‘will search’ in the future. You must try to answer and leave your blog’s links on answers to such questions. And yeah, finding such questions is not easy. But, to an extent, you can zero in on such questions by scavenging through the tons of questions being asked across various categories on Yahoo Answers. Make it a point to look out and make use of such questions. Because, only then will more and more people see and click on your blog’s url. And while answering such questions, remember to write the ‘best’ answer possible! Also, you must make it sure that your blog has an awesome post related to the question posed. Only then will leaving the url along with the answer make sense!

#3 Do self promotion in limit

               The moderators at Yahoo Answers are pretty efficient! They are good at scanning through large number of answers and filtering out spam and self promoting stuff. Make sure that you don’t just focus on promoting your own stuff. In fact, when you start out, you should promote more links from other reputed sources, like- Wikipedia links, links from influential sites and blogs etc. Also, try to maintain a healthy ‘ratio’ of self promotion to promotion of others’ links. Like for every link of your own blog you share, share 3 links from other sources along with your answers! This way, you’ll manage to stay safe from the radar of the moderators. If moderators find that you are violating their community guidelines and remove your answer, 10 points will get deduced from your account! So, never go full throttle when it comes to promoting your blog’s posts along with answers!

#4 Take help of friends

                If you’ve got help, tasks become easier! Ask your large hearted friends to lend their support in your crusade! Ask them to use the site and reach level 2. If they are lazy, like me, to type answers and accumulate 250 points, you may ask them to just give their ids to you so that you may answer questions using them. And if things sway your way and you manage to get multiple ids belonging to level 2, you are in luck! You may promote your blog’s links better using those ids also, keeping points #2 and #3 in mind, without forgetting to implement them!Further, you may also ask your friends to ‘pose’ ‘much sought’ questions and you may answer them. But hey, this is an ‘unethical’ method and needs to be performed with much precaution! I usually don’t recommend this method, but I’ve seen folks doing this and getting good exposure in the process.

#5 ‘Forcing’ people to quote your blog posts in their answers

                 This is an exciting and rewarding prospect. Let me give you an example. In an education related blog of mine, I created an article describing various good courses in India to study. I made a concise list. It ranked well in search results and got read by many. Slowly, people using Yahoo Answers started using the link to that article while they answered relevant questions. Usually, they’d list a few courses and give the link and state- ‘You’ll find the whole list here’. And I still get visitors from those very links! All this happened without me putting in any conscious effort! Literally, the quality of the article ‘forced’ people to use it in their answers! You may also do this feat, be it any niche that you are blogging about!

Conclusion

                  These are the strategies that I’ve always depended on, to get traffic from Yahoo Answers. The main strategy should be to work steadily, without being too aggressive in self promotion. Also, finding the ‘hottest’ question also is necessary. Hope you’ll implement the tips and get good results. Share this post and express your opinion in the comment section.

Getting High Quality Links to Increase Ranking

Despite the many changes in search engine ranking methods in the last year and many more expected to come the most reliable way to increase your rankings is still to get links to your site from high power high ranking sites and domains. Ultimately content is the most important factor you have control of in achieving higher rankings consistently regardless of any changes made to search engine algorithms. That is the actual purpose of the search engine – to seek out and provide search results based on relevance and reliability of the content in the results. Despite this, it is still necessary to utilize Search Engine Optimisation strategies. 

Realistically getting from page 2 on the results to the 1st page and top 10 in the rankings typically requires some effort on your part. If you have done the basics like implementing social media SEO strategies, done all of the on-page optimizations, and provide quality, fresh content relevant to your niche there is still another avenue to consider.

Getting links to your site from other websites is still a tried and true method of increasing your rankings. Ideally, as you get better known in your niche and increased traffic to your site some other sites will begin to quote or cite you in their content and include a link to your site with a link as a reference. In the real world this happens but not as often as needed typically to truly push you up the rankings.

There is an overlooked method of getting these links that are so vital to increasing your rankings. By offering your expertise and passion on a subject as a guest contributor you will typically be allowed to include a link in either the content you author or the by line of the content. To make this work for you there are of course considerations.

• All links are not created equal. The easiest way to determine the value of a link is to do a search and look at the first page results. High ranking websites will have greater value than lower ranking sites.
• Highly effective links come from sites with relevancy to yours. If your site niche is cell phones a link on a fashion blog is not as effective as a link on a consumer electronics or communication site.
• To optimise for a keyword find a site that already ranks well for that keyword. Once again, a simple search using the keyword or phrase you wish to optimize will give insight as to the value that site will have. 

To offer to contribute to a site for the opportunity place a link you need to have something to offer. All blogs want good high quality content relevant to their blog and readers. If you can provide a unique piece of quality content then most will consider if you approach them in the right way. Keep in mind these things.

• Many websites sell space for links in content. The initial reaction may well be an offer of content and link placement for a fee. This is not strange or rude, it is very common. If they often get paid to have a link in content then you need to offer seriously good content for them to consider it for free.
• When making the inquiry include a specific topic of relevance to them and enough background on yourself to show you have the skill to write that content.
• They will naturally want to see the site you wish to link to. They will want your website to be in keeping with standards that their readers may expect and likely are not interested if your site is overflowing with spam and advertising.

Of course you need to keep you own site filled with fresh quality content but if in exchange for a few hours of your time each week you are able to place high quality links to your site it will pay dividends. As well as higher rankings it may result some extra traffic and readers for your site. You may also make some friends to network with for other ideas and insights in a mutually beneficial way.

Four Effective Link Building Strategies

Search Engine Optimization or often abbreviated as SEO features many complex and time-intensive processes. One of the crucial processes in SEO is link building. Link-building should become consideration for all webmasters since all various search engines give better rank to a website if the website has numerous quality one way links to it. There are 2 sources of backlinks. The first source is from a linking campaign and second source is natural backlink. Normally a website can get a natural link if the website has good content and great traffic.

                     

Traffic occurs if a website has good position in search engines so natural link comes if a website has been successful in linking campaigns. Backlink is split into 2 types that are one-way and two-way backlinks. All major search engines put priority on one-way backlink as opposed to two-way. Currently there are several ways that can be employed to obtain backlinks especially the one way links. Below I've listed some verified strategies in gaining backlinks that the majority site owners around the world use.

1. Contacting webmasters of other websites which have identical or similar topic. This process is perhaps the most seasoned strategy in gaining link development and it still prevails in today’s condition. If your website has good traffic and good search engine ranking, it’s very simple to obtain links from other webmasters. Nevertheless, this method usually gives you reciprocal backlinks.

                                

2. Submitting website to link directories can be a good choice to acquire one-way links. The two forms of link directories are free and paid link directories. There are numerous free link directories on internet that you can easily find and you may submit your website at no cost. Yahoo link directory is one example of paid link directory.

3. Outsource link-building campaign to a link building service. With this method, money plays its role. If you spend $10 then definitely you’ll get bad quality results but if you would spend for example $200 then you will see the difference. There is no need to worry on investing your money on a link building service since the payback is very promising. 

4. One-way backlinks can be created via using articles to article directories. Article submission sites normally have high page rank ,which is very good for low page-rank websites to get better position on search engines. However, usually you're only allowed to add URL of your website’s homepage on article directory sites.

Can spam backlinks harm your rankings

It is a big issue from past some years that do spam / negative backlinks harm your site in search engine rankings.
about 4-5 years ago google had confirmed that

Inbound links can’t harm your ranking because competitors would be able to harm your site by spamming thousand of low quality links.

However eecently Matt Cutts announced a change in Google’s policy.

The Google statement changed from:

There is nothing a competitor can do to harm your rankings
                                        to
There is almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your rankings.

It is very obvious that your competitor can blast huge number of spam backlinks to your site using black hat seo tools.
So do you think spam backlinks can really harm your site seaarch engine rankings?
If we consider googles statement then we can easily come to conclusion that,

Neither spam backlinks harm your site nor they boost your site in SERP's, they are just ignored by google.

However this theory is not applicable every where, Lets see how

Effect of spam backlinks on old trusted site

Some SEO experts says that google compares spam backlinks with existing authority quality links of a site. If any site have very strong and consistent backlinks in past then google will simply ignore the blast of spammy links bombarded on that site.

Effect of spam backlinks on new site

off course google will penalise a new site for spam backlinks as it is obvious that no one will going to harm a site that itself is struggling to bubble up on first few pages of google search results.

How to prevent site from spam attack by competitor

To prevent your site from getting penalised by google for spam attack by your competitor you only need to get some authority high quality links from niche sites. This can be done by getting some permanant backlinks from reputed niche sites through guest posting. Also there are many gov and edu. sites/forums that allows registration and dofollow backlinks through profile pages, grab them they will help you in long run.

How this algorithm building Market Monopolies

Some big fishes that are having bunch quality websites are free to spam as google dont hunts out big fishes. These Market Monopolies are hunting small websites and pushing them dipper and dipper in serps.

Get High pr9 Dofollow backlinks-SEO Tips

In some previous post we found some high pr dofollow blogs to get backlinks.

• Finding dofollow blogs ~ Tutorial
• Auto accept PR7 dofollow blog high PR pages explored ~ Tutorial

Now it's time to do something different but effective.

Are you getting rid of hunting out dofollow blogs to get backlinks, and now you dont want to do this boring spy work to get backlinks and link juice?

If yes, then this article is for you. Now its time to find some alternative sources to get high pr backlinks and link juice.

• Remember this cyber world is extended beyond the sky and resources are never going to end until you have sharp spy sight.

Today I am going to explain a full tutorial for getting high pr backlinks and linkjuice from our well known website Youtube.

Yes it's the one that google owns. Do you ever observed a youtube profile in SEO point of view, I dont think so.

• Youtube profile is the Golden Mine to get high pr backlinks.

Lets see how:

Now we will observe various aspects of a youtube profile.

Tools Required:

• Seoquake
• Google
• Youtube

Observation 1:

Conclusion 1:
Now what you understand from above observation.

• Point 1: Here in youtube profile you have space to add dofollow link of your site.
• Point 2,3 and 4: Here via subscribers,channel comments and friends you can get dofollow links from other channels. This means you can pass linkjuice of high pr profiles of other users to your profile and from your profile to your site through the dofollow link we seccured in point 1.

Key point:

 Youtube is full of high pr profiles so this is a really vast source for getting high pr link juice.

Now the technical part is how to find high pr profiles easily without doing hours of spywork.
Here we starts tutorial to figure out high pr youtube profiles.

I assume you have read

• Finding high pr pages automatically using Seoquake

• And installed seoquake.

Now Tutorial starts:

1. Just go to Google  , in search setting select 100 results per page  click on save settings and return to search
2. In google,search for the any one of the queries bellow 

site:youtube.com/user/  

inurl:youtube.com/user/  

 Now by considering any one of these two search queries follow the tutorial given here. 

 Overall Conclusion:

Look at those pr9 profiles don't they are spinning your head right round-round.
Just create youtube profile design it well and fill full information(So that it will reach pr6+ in next pr update). 
Add your site url in your youtube profile as described in point 1.
Now find some high pr profiles by using above tutorial, subsrcibe them,add them as friend and post comment in their channel comments section.
And get high pr linkjuice to get your site awarded with high pr in next pr update.

• Subscribe to our youtube channel,we are going to start video tutorials for easy SEO soon.
• Also checkout our high pr dofollow list.

 Stay tuned for more :)

Auto accept PR 7 Do follow Blog High PR Pages Explored-Tutorial

Hi guys..
Today I am here with a big bang with an autoaccept PR7 dofollow blog. I am going to explain you a full tutorial to explore all the high pr pages of this blog.


Before we start I assume  that you have read finding high pagerank dofollow pages .
Tools Required:

• Seoquake
• Gogle search

Now we will explore all the high pr pages using some simple techniques.
So the tutorial starts here.

1. Go to www.topo.com .
2. Create an account, in your profile fill your data, you will see that there you can add your website link at two places and the bonus point is that after next pr update that profile page will reach pr6 damm surely.
3. So you have now seccured two pr6 backlinks to your website.
4.  Now we are going to explore all the high pr pages of the blog www.topo.com with some simple techniques.
5. Just go to Google  , in search setting select 100 results per page  click on save settings and return to search
6. In google search for the queries one by one

1. site:topo.com/trips/

2. site:topo.com/photos/

 Now by considering there two search queries follow the tutorial given here

Conclusion:

After exploring all the high pr pages of  www.topo.com comment on the posts and get high pr backlinks.

After having this task completed I assure you that if your blog holds pagerank less than pr3 then it will be  awarded with higher pagerank upto pr3 in next google pagerank update.

But remember dont cross the faint line between building backinks and spamming ,because google just hates spam.
 

What next ?

Next post wil be "The full tutorial to get link juice from 100's of PR8 pages with little work".

Stay tuned for more..