This can be a great tool to drive traffic to your website ? by answering questions that are related to your web based business. You should not have your link to your website on every answer [the moderators from yahoo will see it as spam] but the more you establish yourself as a knowledgeable authority the more people will know you and eventually know your website.

It works like this:

The more quality answers that you provide the more points you get. For each answer you get 2 points. Answering questions and getting them starred are the most common way to get points [there are other ways].

You will start off at ?level one? – which means that you can only answer twenty questions a day, so choose your questions wisely. The more points you get the more levels you go up and that means you get to answer more questions on a daily basis.

How to get started?

First you will need to create an account with yahoo. It?s very simple:

Then go to Yahoo answers:

http://answers.yahoo.com/

Start researching topics/categories that are related to your business. If you want quality traffic then you should ONLY be answering questions related to your business or industry. If you are an expert on business and your website is about online business chances are you?ll find some Questions that are being posted by Yahoo Answers users that pertain to your niche, this is where you come in to show off your expertise.

Answer each question with the best answer you can and remember: you are not just answering to that specific individual who asked the question – but to the hundreds and thousands of visitors who are coming to Yahoo Answers looking for answers! and solutions to their problems. Establish yourself as a resource of information and these visitors will follow you…. JUST TRY IT