Comments on: Answering Questions for Moolah

By: SkyWatcher

SkyWatcher — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:27:52 +0000

Put that on Wikipedia too! Will get billions of unique visitors a day :P lol
Anyways nice post as well as the idea.

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By: SEO Bob

SEO Bob — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:16:42 +0000

That’s an interesting idea.
I bet you could expand that to several forums 2. The key is just looking like your not an affiliate marketer. I bet I could get past the human admin pretty easy.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:49:03 +0000

You’ve got to put Wiki Answers on that list. Nice post.

By: Autmated List Builder

Autmated List Builder — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:57:19 +0000

This is a great post.

I use yahoo answers a lot with a good success. I always build a website or page on one of my sites with good content about the theme I answer questions. On that sites/pages I put then affiliate offers and a subscriber box to collect emails. You never should forget collecting emails because the money is in the list. I’m sure you heard that already a lot and it’s really true!

With that strategy I never got banned from Yahoo yet!

Daniel

By: Smaxor

Smaxor — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:29:37 +0000

This method is great. Used it quite a bit. Keys to success:

1. Proxies
2. Unique accounts with a unique IP tied to it ( if you’re doing it manually don’t forget to purge your cookies )
3. Cloaking, track your refers and IP’s of incoming people for a while. See what the last IP or Refer is before you get banned. Then cloak a nice wiki type page to those people.

What works very well too is scraping another q & a source. Then with one of your accounts post the question. After that post the answer with another account but add your link to the bottom. Then wait a while and vote your answer the best.

So you could easily get a c-block ( 255 ip’s ) of proxies. which would give you 255 accounts. Code up a little scripting for the logic and let it rip all day long. :)

By: XRay

XRay — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:32:54 +0000

Aha … that’s how you drove traffic to that google page you posted about in the forum :-). I’ve used YA a few times to create backlinks to my articles or Squidoo lenses & discovered your answers can get some nice search engine rankings.

Excellent advice on creating alternate personas for marketing purposes. Some people may have a problem with it, but to me it’s just smart marketing. After all it would be hard to be taken seriously as an authority on forex, relationships, debt elimination and RC cars as “you”.

Looking forward to your next post, Kris.

@Ruck: Thanks for the Yahoo! profile & 360 tip!

By: Ruck

Ruck — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:16:09 +0000

I dont even use tons of accounts anymore. I answer any and all questions from 5 authoritative accounts now. Posting links after signup is stupid. Another good idea is to build up your profile and Yahoo 360 as well. That way, if you can get your hands on an automated Yahoo Groups poster you can work the same niches heavily thru groups and Answers at the same time :)

CPA Networks will most likely NOT approve the traffic because of the “free site path” traffic is not usually allowed. Some do, some dont. But yea, “cloaking” your referrer is a good idea if you are going direct to offer but it works SO MUCH better to presell.

Best,
Ruck

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:22:41 +0000

I think this is a great idea and have read about Ruck and others doing very well with this. But since we are clearly breaking TOS opening up tons of accounts and using affiliate links. Couldn’t we be sued just like those myspace spammers were? Or should this not be a concern?

Plus most CPA networks probably don’t approve of this promotion method since you are breaking a sites TOS to advertise their offers. I’m assuming you cloak your referrers for this method.

By: hugepedlar

hugepedlar — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:18:45 +0000

I’ve been meaning to get round to posting on Yahoo Answers for a while now. Something else to put on my list.

I reckon YA might be pretty good for building lists of prospects. Build an info site with opt-in forms and set yourself up as a guru. Free targeted traffic.

By: Mason

Mason — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:34:32 +0000

Last week I got banned by Yahoo in 5 minutes posting to payday loans questions. Same crap from people… No one wants to give me a loan blah blah blah not my fault blah blah blah….

So I posted a reasonable answer about credit worthiness and high risk and sent them to one of my sites, which gives an intro to pay day loans (not spammy with only a hyperlink to an affiliate) and whammo…. BANNED in 5 minutes.

I went into another yahoo account and posted to the same answer “No one wants to give you a loan because you’ll probably won’t pay it and by the way IT IS YOUR FAULT!” NOT BANNED.

Go figure.

By: Robbert

Robbert — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:15:47 +0000

That’s just brilliant. I think I’ll be checking this out in the Netherlands! :)

But at what “work at home” affiliates do you redirect your visitors?