| What’s the best way to responsibly promote my company in Yahoo! Answers?

What’s the best way to responsibly promote my company in Yahoo! Answers?

baseball g asked:


I’m an emarketer with a large financial services company and in support of our online marketing efforts we want to start to leverage social media channels. We have some calculators and content that can get buried in our site and I think certain web communities could benefit from it.

Since I’m a big fan and user of Yahoo! Answers I’d like to start here by using our content and tools to help answer people’s questions. I’m not sure if there are any written or unwritten rules on the best way to do this – I definitely don’t want to be SPAMy.

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3 Responses to “What’s the best way to responsibly promote my company in Yahoo! Answers?”

  1. frak1a12345 on March 24th, 2009 6:46 am

    Promoting a commercial venture on Yahoo! Answers is against the general policies of the website.

  2. Sharon F on March 26th, 2009 10:33 am

    You cant do that in Yahoo answers

    You can however submit your site on search engines….

  3. Unstoppable Dreams on March 27th, 2009 2:20 pm

    It is against the community guidelines to spam. Spam can be perceived in so many ways. You can easily find ways to promote yourself and fit within the guidelines. One of the ways that is encouraged by Y!A is to share your knowledge where it is relevant to the question. If you simply do that and provide valuable answers, people will naturally contact you through your profile. I say “if” because if you are “spammy” and offer no value in your answer, then you are better off not waisting your time in this forum at all. It is not against the guidelines to tell people about yourself in your Y!A profile page and provide a link to the company you are marketing.

    You can read more about the guidelines by clicking on the community guidelines link at the bottom of each page in this forum.

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