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What is Yahoo! Answers?

Yahoo! Answers, in short, is the world’s largest questions and answers community where members can post any question and have it answered by fellow members. The person asking the question may choose the best answer from those posted to the question.

Members answering the questions are awarded points simply answering the questions and even more points if their answer is chosen as the best answer. In building points the members will be climbing the ranks established by Yahoo! Answers, eventually to be declared an expert after achieving a certain amount of points.

This system established a unique, useful and successful resource for a large number of Internet users who urgently need answers on questions. This also became a centralized resource for experienced individuals to prove their expertise to a large international audience. In becoming an expert in a specific niche, your answers will carry more weight than any other answers provided by non-experts. In following the recommendations in this guide, one of your goals will be to become and expert on Yahoo! Answers in your niche.

For webmasters, this service became a proven success in attracting targeted visitors to their established websites. The purpose of this guide is to show you how to achieve success in this opportunity not being taken advantage of by the majority of webmasters.

Yahoo! Answers can be accessed by entering the following URL in your browsers’ address bar:

http://answers.yahoo.com.

The Yahoo! Answers Points System

As explained, you will receive a certain number of points for every question answered and even more points if your answer is chosen as the best. The ultimate goal is to earn as much point, which will eventually be promoting you as an expert on Yahoo! Answers.

In increasing your points on Yahoo! Answers, you will also be lifting various limits pertaining to the number of questions you may answer per day, the number of ratings you may receive, etc.

Become a member of Yahoo! Answers

Before you can start benefiting from gaining traffic from Yahoo! Answers you will need to register as a member of Yahoo! You can do this by visiting the Yahoo! Website at www.yahoo.com or simply doing so by registering from Yahoo! Answers at http://answers.yahoo.com. Once you have registered you may log into Yahoo! Answers.

Complete your profile

After logging into Yahoo! Answers, you will need to complete your profile. This is very important as a large number of Yahoo! Answers members will at some stage want to view more information on you. The nature of the answers you will be posting on questions will determine other users’ interest in you. Ensure that you provide as much relevant information in your profile about yourself.

Do you want to be contacted?

During the profile completion process you will also be offered the opportunity of allowing fellow members to contact you and the way in which they can do so, whether it is by e-mail or messenger. You may also decide to have no correspondence with fellow members allowed.

Brand yourself with a photograph or image

You will also be afforded the opportunity of uploading a picture for your profile. We highly recommend branding yourself and by creating a small logo as profile picture is the ideal way in showing off your brand to your new online audience. This will make your profile much more memorable as this image will appear in all your answers you post.

Familiarize yourself with the Yahoo! Answers operations

Lastly, before you set off answering questions it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with Yahoo! Answers. You will notice the different categories under which questions are sorted. Take a look at how questions are answered, how questions are posted and read the available information on how Yahoo! Answers work. Play around with the functions of the website, you won’t break it!

In following the recommendations above you will now be a registered member of Yahoo! Answers and will have very basic knowledge on how this service work. You are now allowed to start posting answers, but not yet ready for it!

Let us keep reading on before you start answering questions.

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