Yahoo! Answers Builds Traffic

In case you don’t know, Yahoo! Answers is a free Q&A community that allows people to ask and answer questions on virtually any topic.

I was doing a backlink check on Yahoo the other day. (A backlink check is a way to see how many other sites link to you. Go to Yahoo.com and type in linkdomain:www.yoursite.com to check your site’s backlinks.)

And I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people who posted a link to my site on Yahoo! Answers when answering questions about website creation.

Wow! Free traffic and I didn’t have to do a thing.

This further drives the point of how important it is to build the most useful site you can in your niche. Whether you reach golfers, doctors, stay at home moms, you name it. If your site is useful, people will link to it voluntarily.

The other benefit to this is that the search engines will notice these multiple one-way links and reward you with higher rankings.

So don’t just put up a 3-page site and hope for the best. Build a site with a wealth of useful information.

Check your competitors and offer tools and advice that they don’t. Get people to remember you, and you will be rewarded long-term.