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!

YouTube: Get Involved, Build a Presence

First of all, I’m sure you’re quite familiar with YouTube. There are all sorts of places on the web to view and upload videos, but YouTube is pretty much the standard “go to” place for videos if you want to be part of this scene. It’s not too hard to upload videos. The part that becomes a little bit more tricky is when you want to get your video to be seen by others. And remember, your goal here is to spread your videos like wildfire.

Before you start uploading your own videos, you’ll want to create your own profile on YouTube. It’s a good thing if you build up your profile a bit before uploading your own content. This way you can establish your presence on the site, allowing your profile to become more visible to others. Once you create your profile, you’ll be able to enter details about yourself and share a link back to your own website. You’ll be surprised at how much traffic you’ll see once your YouTube profile becomes a bit more established.

Once you have your own YouTube channel created, it’s a good time to create a playlist of videos. Gather videos that you feel are appropriate for your channel, and add them to your playlist. Eventually you’ll be adding your own original videos to your playlist. This will be a fantastic place to gain exposure to your own content, mixed along side other videos. Again, the whole idea here is to build your presence on YouTube, so you can win over some viewers in the long run.

In the coming days I’ll be sharing some additional YouTube video marketing information. In the meantime, if you haven’t done so already, create your YouTube account. No time is better than now to get involved and familiarize yourself with the world of video marketing.