Well I have just had the most amazing half hour. For some time now I have been meaning to go along to Yahoo Answers and see what was going on.
Someone had suggested that it is a great way of getting traffic to your site if you answer some questions in a responsible and meaningful way.
Your reward is basically a link back to your site or blog just so long as the link ties in with a thought through answer. In other words use links carefully – avoid spamming.
The first thing that surprised me was the activity – within minutes or even seconds of questions appearing there can be up to half a dozen answers. AND the questions are coming in so fast that when you refresh your screen there are already heaps more.
I have been nursing for most of may adult life and am now heavily involved with a website about hypnosis so I am well qualified to answer so many of the health questions – but I could literally have kept going full time on the questions coming in and still not answered all of them.
What I couldn’t understand having been there is why people who are wanting to sell stuff on-line as affiliates aren’t targetting this massive number of people for instance who are looking for sleep cures and sending them to Adam Eason’s ‘Deep Sleep Programme‘ page.
I will see over the next 24 hours whether answering three questions on Yahoo Answers has any effect on traffic. I will let you know.
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About Keith Watson
Hi - I am Keith Watson.
This blog is dedicated to Banger - a teacher from my teenage years who - at least once a week - insisted upon cracking the hilarious - and I have to say - never heard before line "What's on Watson?".
I would smile demurely - the rest of the class would fall about with sides aching - and life would go on for another week.
'Wats-on My Mind' I have decided will assist me personally as well as be of interest to others (I hope) who share my challenges. It will help keep me organised and document my activities so that I know what I did yesterday.
You think I am joking!!
I have been in the website development game since 1993 and have been involved with over 2000 website builds (with the help of my fantastic team of freelance programmers)
It was only in the last two years though that I have moved over to making money for myself on line and in particular linking up with an amazing talent called Adam Eason to produce and distribute self help and hypnotherapy products.
As a result of looking to promote these products I have downloaded hundreds of internet marketing articles and e-books, studied countless reports, tested list building tactics, butterflied, boot-camped, buzzed, adsensed, affiliated, met a jerk, jv'ed, plr given-awayed, and generally suffered from information overload.
My computer - presumably in a fit of pique or simply demanding a holiday has given up the ghost on at least two occassions - causing me even more stress.
Oh this simple business of making money online.
BUT the great news is that it is all working and our list has grown - I have found some gurus I have complete faith in - and Adam and I are actually making money from our endeavours.
Some way to go but I am more relaxed and can spot a phoney over hyped, sexed up, must have latest product which you must either buy or if not, simply fade into oblivion. There’s not room on this Internet for the two of us.
This ramble of an introduction is really to set the scene for I am sure an interesting journey which I invite you to join. In fact I want you to help me find the right tools, scripts, plugins etc. etc, that will catapult me into the stratosphere of success. I hope you will be there with me.
I don't just consider success in a monetary sense. I so want to help some friends of mine who are involved in Christian missionary work in some pretty harrowing parts of this world. If I can bring any help to their missions that will give me more satisfaction than anything else.
I really, really do love this web stuff and the people you meet. I am convinced that this powerful technology can be harnessed to do some good.
