I have been spending a lot of time lately over at Yahoo Answers, answering questions mostly in the Small Business and Advertising/Marketing categories.

And it is paying off! I am now #8 in the Business and Finance category in terms of having the most number of answers rated as the best. Answers are rated as best either by the asker, or by the voters (if the asker has basically abandoned the question).

More than the rankings, however, I get visitors interested in what PowerHomeBiz.com offers. I get more people to discover and learn about our website. I get targeted visitors by becoming an active member of the community. I answer questions on how to start a daycare business and refer them to our daycare business article. I answer questions on how to avoid unwanted calls while working from home, and I refer them to our article on how to avoid the top 10 distractions of working from home. I answer questions on how to finance a business, and I refer them to our section on financing a business.

The icing on the cake is that the search engines indexes Yahoo Answers. This means I get backlinks everytime I post a Powerhomebiz.com URL! This strategy is so much more effective than going around commenting on blogs (which mostly have rel=nofollow tags anyway so why bother?).

Try it for yourself …