Expert help from Google Answers

Expert help from Google Answers

by: Jakob Jelling

Web users turn to search engines for answers to their questions. This is usually done through various levels of searching the engineกs database. Sometimes though, no matter how hard they try, searchers can’t find the information they need. Maybe they’re not familiar with how to narrow and focus searches, or they may not have enough background in the subject they’re researching to recognize the answer they need. Google Answers offers a solution.

With Google Answers, you hire an experienced researcher or specialist in your field of inquiry to provide answers to your questions. In a sense, this process works much like bidding on an item at eBay or hiring work done through a freelancer web site. You will create a Google Answers profile, a nickname, enter your credit card information, and when you post your questions, you specify how much you’re willing to pay for answers and an expiration date for replies.

There is a 50 cent per question listing fee, and your payment offer for an answer can range from $2.00 to $200.00 currently. Your offered price needs to be high enough to justify and compensate the time a Google researcher will spend finding an answer. Researchers receive 75% of your offered fee, and Google receives the remainder to help support the Google Answers service. Once you receive an answer, your credit card will be charged the offer amount you made for that answer.

Previously asked questions and answers are posted, searchable, and freely available at the Google Answers site. Other users may make comments on the questions and answers, to help clarify the information you receive.

Google Answers isn’t magic. They can’t answer unanswerable questions, and they won’t provide medical, legal, or financial advice. But for other tough questions that you just can’t find an answer for on your own, Google Answers may be, well, the answer!

By Jakob Jelling

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About The Author

Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.sitetube.com. Visit his website for the latest on planning, building, promoting and maintaining websites.

This article was posted on September 29, 2004

by Jakob Jelling

A Back Road Loophole For Getting a Top Google Rank

A Back Road Loophole For Getting a Top Google Ranking

by: Alexis Dawes

While everybody wants their site to receive a top 10 ranking in Google, itกs just not possible for everyone.

And this is especially true if youกve got a brand new site. New sites that have been crawled by the Googlebot are sometimes given a decent ranking in Google for a few days before they plunge to the depths of Neverworld.

What a TEASE that Google is!

The unknowing webmaster thinks theyกve hit paydirt with an almost instantaneous top 2030 listing. Then one day POOF their site is gone as fast as it arrived.

Now the webmaster has to prove that the site has staying power by getting links from other sites within its niche. Not just any links. Links from sites with a decent PageRank would really do the trick. Getting listed in the infamous Yahoo! or Open Directory would be even better.

Thatกs what the experts constantly tell us. And in fact, itกs all 100% true.

However as the old saying goes… Thereกs more than one way to skin a cat.

One of the things I teach my readers is that your site doesn’t necessarily need a top 10 position in Google in order for you to be successful.

You can get your marketing message listed in Googleกs top 10 results for your targeted keyword, and still get a ton of traffic to your web site.

Let me explain how it works…

You advertise on a specific site. (Iกll tell you about this site in a few moments.) This advertisement will promote your web site;

Your advertisement getกs spidered by the Googlebot.

Your advertisement receives a top Google ranking for your targeted keyword.

People see your advertisement in Google, and click on to your actual web site.

And this has NOTHING to do with placing an AdWords advertisement.

Itกs a fantastic little loophole that most people don’t know about. And Iกve seen it work consistently for many different niches.

This loophole works because

Google LOVES itself.

Google trusts that expert researchers are going to lead searchers to the right tools.

You see Google has an interesting service called Google Answers (http://answers.google.com/answers/).

Users submit specific questions to Google Answers, and specify how much they’re willing to pay for the answer. They accept questions on all types of topics ranging from arts and entertainment, business, health, science, and so on.

Google has an arsenal of 500 researchers who answer these questions.

While Google isn’t accepting any more researchers, anybody with a Google account can post comments answering questions. People who post comments don’t get paid like researchers, but thatกs not the important part.

Now hereกs where it gets juicy

Iกve noticed that Google loves to list questions and answers from Google Answers within their top 10 search results.

For example, somebody posted a query saying that they needed a list of brokers who buy and sell used LED boards. You can view the query here: (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=458689)

I ran a search on Google for the keyphrase กLED boardsก and sure enough, this exact query from Google Answers showed up in the #2 position.

Any LED board broker could get a ton a free publicity here.

All theyกd have to do is post a comment to this query listing their company as broker of LED boards. You can even list URLกs in the comment.

And VOILA your job is done.

Your marketing message is listed in the #2 position under an extremely targeted keyphrase.

Itกs free, and you didn’t have to break a sweat to do it. You simply added some information about your site, and got instant rank.

Making this technique work for you.

Google Answers receives many new queries every day.

Your job is to keep an eagle eye out for queries that you can post comments to, referring people back to your site.

But itกs important to do a quick check several times a week.

It took less than 2 weeks from the time the LED board question was posted, till it reached the #2 position in Googleกs main search.

You want to make sure you get prime advertising space before the query getกs a top 10 ranking. This way you maximize how much traffic you receive.

Copyright 2005 Alexis Dawes

About The Author

Alexis Dawes is the author of ‘taking The Back Road To Get On Googleกs First Page.ก This report offers details on several more loopholes you can use to get a top Google ranking. You can find more information at (http://www.GetInGoogleNow.com).

This article was posted on February 02

by Alexis Dawes