Affiliate Programs

Last week I told you how I had been using Yahoo Answers to drive traffic to some of my sites. I want to give you an update on how this one method of traffic generation is coming along.

I have to say, I’ve been quite pleased with the traffic from Yahoo Answers. Linda, over at 5 star affiliate programs had voiced concerns about how time consuming it seemed. Well, at first I was spending about an hour a day. Now, I spend between 15 and 30 minutes about every other day answering questions.  I just log on in the mornings, search through my niche and start laying down answers. About every 5th answer or so, I find a question where a link to one of my websites would be helpful and I leave it laying.

What I’ve Learned So Far

What I failed to take into account was that your answers will be archived. So when someone searches for something like “What are the best blue chip stocks to buy“, your answers will show up even after months if you’ve answered questions on a lot of post about “what is the best blue chip stock to buy“.

This is the beauty of Yahoo Answers. The links I lay down now will be there for a long time, just waiting for someone to do a search and find them. I like that!

I’m now seeing a steady stream of traffic to the pages I linked to.  By that I mean I’m getting around 50 to 70 hits a day on several of my sites where I’ve left answers.  This is from probably around 20 to 30 links in answers I’ve left so far. This number should go up as I leave more answers with links in them.

Another cool thing is that some people will email the posted questions to their friends. I’ve got about 50 or 60 hits from email addresses.

This traffic converts really well for Adsense sites. Nuff said.

Yes, female profiles work better than male profiles. I have one profile that gets “Best Answer” 34% of the time. Points are adding up fast! My male profile doesn’t get near that on related questions. Oh well, as long as my links get on there, that’s all that matters!

Spammers Are Stupid

I can’t tell you how many spammers I see on there. Yahoo Answers is a pretty tight group and spammers get flagged almost immediately. I see idiots on there creating bogus sounding profile names along with no avatar and every answer has 1 to 5 links in them pointng to a blogger account. Hellooooooo. It only takes a few minutes to set up a natural profile! These are the same people asking “Why can’t I make money on the Internet.” They just don’t get it.

Stay tuned for more updates if anything interesting evolves from my experiment of generating traffic with Yahoo Answers.