If you’ve spent any amount of time online you’ll have heard of “Yahoo Answers.” Yahoo Answers is basically is a constantly updating site where people from the general public ask questions and other people gives answers to them.

If you don’t know much about why you should be using it (namely free traffic) but I won’t be going into here, as I’ve written about it before on this blog, just do a quick search on my blog for more details or click here.

Now onto this blog post…

If you think about it the majority of people will probably go through the first 3-5 answers and after that they’ll probably move on to the next question.

But, wouldn’t it be great if you could grab the first position and get the majority of traffic clicking through to your site?

Yes?

Here’s how I do it.

1. Find the topic you’d like to answer questions on.

2. Pick a question that’s just been freshly asked. You may need to reload your webpage to get it updated.

3. Get typing quick! But don’t think you need to answer the question now you don’t. I usually, just put in “Try this” or “Yes” or “No” something short and then submit my answer. That’s the fun part, while others are typing like crazy to get in first you’ve already beaten them.

4 . Look at you short answer and you’ll notice that there’s a little “edit” link you can use to get back in to edit you answer. This is when you go in and give a good quality answer (no junk, nobody’s going to follow junk) with a workable link in your resource box.

5. Voila! If you’ve done steps 1-4 properly you can sit back and watch those web stats changing immediately.

But, remember there’s no point getting in fast with a poorly written answer. The better the answer the more people are inclined to want to know more.

If you’d like more great tips on Yahoo Answers click here.

I know after reading a blog title like this, a lot of you (especially the SEO heads out there) will argue that page rank is still relevant nowadays and we all should be looking for it.

But, after the last few days with my own site I don’t know?

If you visit out home page here at www.ItWasSoEasy.com you’ll see that we’ve dropped down in page rank, from a rank of 4 down to a 2 and now….?

And another site of mine www.EscapeFromFat.com that I’ve changed from a site to a blog has gone in one week from a page rank of 1 to a page rank of 4….?

Maybe someone out there can work that one out for me….but I’ve still scratching my head.

So, I’m left wondering does page rank really matter anymore?..or have I slipped through the page rank cracks??

I think I won’t be paying as much attention to page rank as I used to…just give me the free traffic instead!!!!