Can Helping To Answer Questions Really Improve Google Rankings? - By: Michael Silverton

There are websites that provide questions and answers for a huge range of topics. It's a gold mine of information waiting to be used.

A user on one of these Question and Answer web sites can submit a “question” on a particular subject and other users of the Q&A web site can give answers to it and the answers can then be voted on (and then sorted by) relevance (more votes meaning more relevance). All of the responses can be seen online.

These Question and Answer web sites can generate you great amounts of traffic if you can answer questions in your area of expertise (it goes without saying that you need to ensure that your answering Questions that are related to your particular niche on the Internet).

Yahoo have a Question and Answer website that offers a complete question and answer service and it’s very useful to use to get your name out there and known to people.

You do certainly need to be careful about what you post. Don’t expect to be able to just post a URL and get masses of traffic, you will find your “answer” voted down or even removed if you do this.

As I have mentioned numerous times, providing great quality and relevant content will be far more valuable. Actually helping people out (by answering their question) will show you to be an “expert” in your market in no time flat.

The rules generally specify no "soliciting", so answer the question and help someone out, with a detailed answer and then add a reference to your website for people to follow up for more information.

The other great reason to use Question and Answer sites (particularly Yahoo given that Google is not accepting new questions and answers) is that lots of websites syndicate the questions and answers for content on their website.

Because of this your web traffic improves over time.

As I mentioned earlier, Questions and Answers can also appear in search engine results. Of course the other benefit is that users of the question and answer sites themselves will get to your website from reading your responses.

In my experience I treat the answering of questions as the building of a presence on the Internet rather than a source of huge traffic to my websites, however it is certainly something that should not be ignored.

With that said, I believe it can be a great “return on investment” where for a relatively small investment of time (to answer questions) you can get a steady stream of traffic to your web site.

Did you know you can get web traffic virtually automatically just by answering questions? I kid you not there are sites out there where people need help and if you take the time to visit and help them out you can and will receive web traffic. Interested in the specific details? Read on and see for youself.

I suggest that you use Q&A web sites. Why? Well almost guaranteed website traffic is the result. So drop by today to find out how to apply this technique in your day to day internet marketing.