Is This The Best New Way To Promote A Site?
This blog exists to promote our main site, ProductCritic. We're quite open about this and the name of this blog should be clue enough.As I've written about previousely, we use a variety of strategies to promote the growth of ProductCritic. I've just started to use another method that I'm hoping will help gain some backlinks from the second most popular search engine...Yahoo!
How do you do this? Use Yahoo! Answers. I've started reading some of the questions in the Consumer Electronics category (specifically Cameras, Camcorders, and Cell Phones). There appear to be quite a lot of questions in the form of "Which of these digital cameras is the best?" and "Is the Nikon D40 better than the Canon 20D?"
I provide honest answers to questions that I know something about and provide a link to the relevant products on ProductCritic and their ProductCritic Scores. I believe this can genuinely help people answer their questions while at the same time providing a plug for ProductCritic. I'll know that this isn't just a tactic to merely troll for links when one of the people asking a question picks my answer as the best one that answered their question.
Best of all, this should help raise the profile of ProductCritic since Yahoo will crawl their own site, right?
What do people think of this method? Leave a comment!
Posted by Tony |
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2 Comments:
I answered 10 seperate questions and didn't get a single click on my link. Are you getting any traffic at all?
Hey Jonathan,
Yeah, I've answered two questions so far and have had four clicks. Maybe it's the nature of the questions that I'm answering. The questions I'm answering are strictly about camera, camcorder, and cell phone reviews and scores. Maybe that's exactly why people are clicking?....because they want to read the reviews anyways?
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