Blog Commenting

If you are familiar with the general layout of a blog, chances are pretty good you’ve seen a place where you can actively participate and share your comments on the topic being discussed.  Each individual blog has it’s own style of displaying comments, but the whole idea is pretty much the same.  It is most common to see a link at the end of each blog post, giving you the opportunity to leave your opinion.  There are some who just enjoy participating in the discussion, but the main reason people participate is to leave a link to their own website with hopes of getting some traffic.

Now before going you go wild and start leaving comments on a bunch of blogs, you should learn the right way to do it.  I can’t tell you how many times I see people go about this all wrong.  Commenting the wrong way will just be a waste of your time and energy.  Remember, you are trying to build traffic and make some money during the whole process.

Begin the process by doing a little research.  Search for active, current, and popular blog posts that are related to your own niche.  You want to find posts where you can provide at least some intelligent feedback.  One line comments that aren’t very informative will simply be overlooked.  Comments such as “nice post” or “thanks for sharing” really don’t add much to your credibility.  You don’t have to write an essay either.  A brief informative comment on a relevant topic can drive significant traffic to your website.  The blog post you are commenting on should be on a high traffic website.  Leaving a comment on a website with little to no traffic won’t produce results.

Engaging in the conversation with a helpful comment will spark interest in who you are and what you have to say.  It even works great if you sometimes question the original authors perspective on the topic.  Adding a little fuel to the fire and starting a little debate can also put you in the spotlight.  Just always remember to be professional, polite, and informative.  This will help you come across as someone who has a good degree of knowledge on the topic being discussed.

It is important to stay on topic and follow through with this process.  This method of driving traffic has proven to be highly effective, over and over again.  It is very simple to do, takes very little time, and once again…it’s free!

Yahoo! Answers is successful simply because many are tired of the same old traditional way to find an answer to their question. Those who seek out information have a pretty good chance of finding an answer to their question once they put it out there in front of millions.

Potential

Here’s where you come along, as an internet marketer, ready to market your site. The potential of gaining targeted traffic to your website is HUGE. There is absolutely no advertising cost involved. The only cost to you will be a little bit of time and effort. When visiting Yahoo! Answers, browse through the categories that relate to your business or product, look for the questions people are posting. Do you see the potential?

Building Trust

Now don’t go all crazy and start spamming the site. I’ll tell you now, that will harm you way more than it will help you. As with any other social networking community, you’ll want to establish a presence and become a trusted member of the community. Building a little bit of trust among users will go a LONG way.

Getting Started

This doesn’t take much time to get started. Sign up and become a member of Yahoo! Answers. Remember to completely fill out your profile. You’ll want your profile to proudly display who you are and what you’re all about. Once you have that all taken care of you can begin browsing the site. Remember to focus on categories that are relevant to the products or services that you are marketing on your website. In these categories you will want to look for questions that you can answer.

Only focus on questions that you can provide an honest, legitimate, and valuable answer to. This will certainly pay off in the long run. It’s a good idea to search keywords that are relevant to your own website. Doing this will certainly narrow things down a bit.

Once you have found the questions you can answers, occasionally link to your website as a reference. Don’t link the same way every time, because this will easily be noticed as spam. And it’s probably a good idea to link to other relevant sites as references as well.

Network With Others

You’ll want to participate in various ways while utilizing Yahoo! Answers. Don’t just use the site as a place to advertise your website. You’ll want to actively take part and vote for other positive answers too. Connect with others and build relationships. You just may be surprised at how rewarding this becomes in the future.

If you follow these suggestions, it won’t be long until you start seeing a steady increase in traffic to your site. Just remember to participate responsibly. Yahoo! Answers has proven to be a useful tool to many worldwide, so give it a shot!