Get New Visitors By Answering Questions

Posted by Mark Flavin
May 31, 2008 at 7:12 am

One of the deepest desires of people today is the desire to feel important. One easy way to make someone feel important is to give them attention and show you care about the things they care about. Be there when that person needs you and help that person when they need help, and you’ll be satisfying the deep desire to feel important.

Now if you can make your customers feel important, do you think they’ll be interested in buying from you again & again? When you’ve bought from someone who truly seemed to care about you and felt you were important, didn’t you feel a certain loyalty? This post will show one way to build a base of loyal customers by answering questions at places like Yahoo Answers and Answerbag.com especially if you own a service oriented or info product business.

Yahoo Answers Traffic

Sites like Answerbag.com and Yahoo Answers have become very popular. People can ask questions on just about any topic and end up with at least one answer. When users on Answerbag were recently asked why they answered questions, the responses included:

“I have made new friends here at Answerbag, and I like to share my
knowledge with them.”

“I love sharing views and opinions.”

“In helping others, it seems to help me. Feel better about myself.”

“I want people to answer my questions, so I will answer theirs.”

So what does that have to do with you, an internet marketer? How could that possibly help your online business? Do you notice the words “friends”, “sharing”, and “helping” in the comments I quoted? These are all relationship words, and creating relationships is the key to building a loyal customer base.

Once you’ve started to build a relationship with someone on one of these Answer sites, you’ve started to open the door to doing business with them. If you gave a truly helpful answer, and as I said earlier made someone feel important by helping them, you’ve created a powerful emotional attachment with that person.

Once you have this attachment you can carefully introduce the fact that you have a business related to the topic you helped that person with, and that you may be able to help them even more through your business.

Although most of these Answer sites are limited in how they can allow you to link back to your web site, there is usually some place to put a little description of yourself in a profile. Be sure to mention the fact that you own a web site on a particular topic, and you may create a bit of traffic from your profile.

But remember we are talking about a relationship-based type of marketing, and as with any relationship you have to give it time to grow before you can expect someone to jump on board and buy your product. However with a little patience, you can be well on your way to building a loyal base of visitors by making them feel important.

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  • Star Riley Says:
    May 31st, 2008 at 10:22 am

    I am shocked I was not allready a subscriber but thanks I am now.Very good info maybe placing links to questions you have answered can help develop more seo response?

  • Jude Bourff Says:
    May 31st, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Hey Mark,

    Excellent suggestion! I have searched for answers on yahoo answers before and it is a really cool program. Found out what I wanted to know too.lol
    Thanks for the idea!

  • Vicki Zerbee Says:
    May 31st, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    Thanks Mark! I have used yahoo answers but not too actively, and never have used answerbag. Thanks for helping us understand this better!

  • Paul Perry Says:
    June 1st, 2008 at 8:10 am

    Hi Mark
    Always good advice,I did’nt know about this site and it look like its worth a look. Thanks again
    Paul Perry
    http://www.PerrysClickbox.com

  • Jeff Bode Says:
    June 1st, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    I agree yahoo answers is great for getting interested traffic.

    I haven’t used answer bag, but that site looks like it would be very good. It’s great helping people as well.

    Keep up the great post Mark!

  • MoneyMingle Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    Just be warned….especially with yahoo…..there is a bit of competition to answer first…some other answerers will “drop a dime on you” if you are linking to your own site as a resource over and over…so keep it to your profile and keep the information you contribute legit and valuable. Yahoo could yank your entire account including an email address you have had for years…in a finger snap.

  • Fernando Morales Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 10:05 am

    Hey Mark,

    Thanks for being so liberal and ready to share these awesome traffic tactics.

    You really set a great example of what internet marketing should be about.

    With Much Respect,
    Fernando

    “The Twilight Warrior”

  • Laurie Lacey (Natural Healing Talk newsletter) Says:
    July 5th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    Hi Mark,

    This is good advice. Thanks, as always, for some good advice. I share explore this option, soon!

    All the best,
    Laurie

  • Pat {Moma} Edwards Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    Mark,
    I am real proud that I have adopted you because you are
    some more Wizard and I am proud to bragg about you when my family is having dinner. My
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  • neo Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    I am glad to have stumble on your blog. Many intresting invaluable and free info here.
    I have just watched on Yahoo answers, hmmm i never it exist. I will try the traffic strategy there.
    I am sure to read more of what you write and give my feedback from time to time.
    Good job and keep it up those like me who needs the guiding light :)

  • Bryan Hee Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    Yahoo answer and Answebag are the great place for you to generate targeted traffic.

    You should choose to question that relevant to your niche you promoted.

    You’ll reward with the best answer status by providing the best advices. Once your answer voted as the Best answer, you’ll generate streams of targeted traffic to your blog/website.

    Never spam the site. You’ll be “BAN” forever once you’re caught by “spamming” the site.

    To Your Success
    Bryan Hee

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  • Easy Computer Tips Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    Hey Mark,

    Thanks for sharing.

    I actually thought about this before but I never got around to actually doing it. But now that I have acquired more knowledge in my area of expertise, I most certainly will be doing this too.

    Paul

  • Top Secret Fat Loss Secret Bonus Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    Hey Mark,

    Thanks for the info and great post. Another question / answer site that folks might want to try is Yedda.com.

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