Creating a (free) buzz with Yahoo Answers

Ruck at Cashtactics.net has written a fantastic, free, downloadable eBook that describes his system for using Yahoo Answers to generate traffic and sales for his business. I've read it, and I think he covers some great points overall, and I also appreciate that he cautions about using the service for spam and just mindless blanketing of your advertising. I worry about people reading his advice and taking it to the extreme and doing just that, but I'm certain that Yahoo has - or will have - a system in place to deal with such as necessary. BTW, Cashtactics is an awesome blog that I highly recommend for internet marketing advice, he definitely knows of what he speaks!

A lot of people either aren't aware of Yahoo Answers, or maybe know of it but never spent any real time there. Let me tell you, it's very addictive and if you're not careful, you can get stuck there for hours. It's a different kind of social networking, less for the soul than for the brain. Basically, people ask questions, and people answer questions. In a nutshell. It's totally free with a Yahoo account, and the beauty in this for you, the broke entrepreneur, is that if you're smart (and I know you are!), you can easily become an authority on your industry (or any other topic you choose) and spread your knowledge throughout the Yahoo Answers community, while helping people with their concerns, and advertising your business, website or blog at the same time - totally free. It's a wonderful thing.

It's the perfect hangout for Resident Smartypants such as myself who sometimes have all of the answers - and yet other times I have nothing but questions! Ruck tells you how to take it a bit further by applying some little known SEO tricks to the process and turning it into a virtual marketing goldmine. Play it right though, and even a little bit of participation will reap big rewards.

Yahoo Answers might prove to be so habit-forming that you won't even notice that you're actually doing promotion because you're having so much fun. Download and read Cashtactics eBook, read the rules at Yahoo Answers, then jump in and make it work for you. Just remember to be helpful and focused at all times, don't spam or inject your link where its not wanted, and keep in mind that there is no need to dig for opportunities to promote, there are literally hundreds of thousands of questions waiting to be answered at all times, so you're certain to find one that requires your type of expertise!