Social Marketing Sites – Yahoo & Stumble Upon

Here we’ll look at a couple more of the most powerful social network sites that you can draw traffic from, and we’ll see some videos on how to use them for marketing your website.

Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers, run by the giant search engine Yahoo is a place where people can ask a question on any topic at all. As a marketer, you can actually answer questions that relate to your products/services and then leave a link to your website within your answer. It’s effectively free advertising, and it also has search engine benefits because you’re building high quality backlinks to your site.

At last count, 95 million questions were posted on Yahoo Answers, so this is a very high traffic site that you certainly should be using.

To see how you can use Yahoo Answers to get traffic for your business, you can view our video here:

Stumble Upon

SU is one of the pioneers of social marketing, and remains one of the best high traffic social sites. It boasts about 2 million users so is well worth using as part of your marketing campaign.

Stumble Upon works as a social bookmarking tool – you can submit website pages, articles (etc) to stumble and the more favourable votes users give, the more free traffic you’ll achieve. There are several tactics that can be used to maximise your SU traffic. In the below video we reveal how to maximise your stumble upon traffic:

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  • LinkedIn
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