Follow up & interact where appropriate

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Q&A sites work great for this, because people are already asking the questions. When I blog I hope my posts address questions that my readers want answered, but they may not. In Q&A sites, your starting point is that somebody asked the queston that you're answering. Specifically: Search the Q&A sites for questions about your subject, and browse the relevant categories. Answer questions fairly and accurately. If appropriate, mention your product or service, and / or link to a relevant page on your site.


Use these sites' message boards to see if you australia business email lists can be of further help, or to congratulate another contributor for a great answer. Fill in your User Profile, showing why people should like and trust you. You can also usually link to your site from your User Profile. In the example below, notice how the user provided a quality answer (much of which follows a template he uses in other answers as well) and adds a relevant link to his site.





Quality (and Self Serving) Answer What are the leading sites and how do they differ? Yahoo! Answers: The biggest site in the industry, with 47 million US visits in November according to comScore (and that's probably a very conservative estimate). It's a broad horizontal site. Questions are open for 4 days. Users answer the question, and vote on the best answer. The best answer is selected by either the asker or by the community. Answers.