22 Sep 09 SEO Simplified: Backlinks and Yahoo

Yahoo has at least two firsts to its credit, one is search engine and another is social site. You must be aware of the search engine bit, but you need a cue to remind yourself of social site bit. Yahoo answers is the first social site, at least the first that we all use.

In this article, we will talk about this tool, and how to use it to get backlinks. As we know that Yahoo answers is meant to give answers to the questions asked by users. We can use this tool to get some traffic to our websites as well, but before we go on talking about that, I must say that if you use this technique profusely, you risk account blocking in yahoo answers. Your competitors may complain and get you banned, therefore use this tool with much care. Another thing is this: the links your website will get from Yahoo answers will not qualify for Page Rank, as these links are no follow, but it certainly will give a boost to your traffic.

Traffic from Yahoo Answers in 10 steps

1. Register an account and choose your categories, wisely.
2. Find 20-30 simple questions. You can go for idiotic ones as well.
3. Provide simple answers to these questions
4. Do not add any link in these question
5. Now, find some good quality questions
6. Supply the question with a well though answer
7. Provide links to authority sites like Wikipedia, or university websites
8. Bury your links midst these authority sites
9. Post your answer
10. Do not over do it. Do not complete all these things in one day, you will get caught.

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