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How to Use Yahoo! Answers To Make Money On eHow

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By idaliabelaly
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Get tons of traffic to your eHow articles by answering questions on Yahoo! Answers.

Difficulty: Moderate
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Computer
  • Internet
  • Yahoo! Email Account
  1. Step 1

    Open up your internet browser, and type in answers.yahoo.com into the URL search box.

  2. Step 2

    If you don't already have a Yahoo! account now is the time to get one. Sign up for one at mail.yahoo.com.

    Once you have a Yahoo! username and password, look for the "Sing In" link next to the Yahoo! Answers logo and click on it. When the page opens, enter in your information and hit enter.

  3. Step 3

    Now, you will need to look for a category on the left hand side of the page where you think you will find questions that you can answer with your article link. Make sure to only answer questions with your link if you think it will help the person asking.

    To answer a question, you will have to click on it, then click on the blue "Answer this Question" button that appears in that page and follow the instructions from there.

  4. Step 4

    Once you have answered a question, try finding more and answering more. The more questions you answer with your link, the more hits you are likely to get to your eHow article, thus you will be able to make more money faster each month.

Tips & Warnings
  • If you are not allowed to submit the link with your answer, try adding an extra space somewhere, so that the browser doesn't recognize it as a link.
  • Answer about 15 questions a day for a month, and you will receive at least 1500 page views guaranteed.
  • Instead of just leaving the link as the answer, try writing a couple of sentences before it.
  • Don't insert your link as answers in questions that aren't relevant; doing that could get you banned from Yahoo! Answers, and it could get your account with Yahoo! canceled all together.

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tammyfrost said

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on 11/5/2009 Wow..I was going to say I would try this but zzzz has me scared...What do you suggest? Anyone?

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on 10/26/2009 I liked the article anyway :)

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on 10/26/2009 I have tried this a couple of times and have gotten the same response as ZZZZ. People flag the answers as inappropriate.

zzzz said

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on 9/28/2009 STEP ONE do NOT ADVERTISE on Yahoo Answers.

DO NOT TRY TO USE YAHOO ANSWERS to drive traffic to your E-how pages (or blog or website).

Yahoo calls that "solicitation", and it is taken as seriously as simple spamming. It WILL lead to your account being suspended and all your content wiped.

Some people who persisted found even their ISP accounts suspended.

Even if you don't do it on every answer, they will get you for it.
And leaving gaps in the link won't help either.

highcloud said

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on 9/27/2009 Thanks for sharing this info. It will come in handy. 5*

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