I don’t know if you’ve ever been here, but Yahoo Answers represents the strangest concept I’ve seen lately–try the human powered search engine.  How it works is, essentially, you pose a question to the Yahoo Answers community and wait a few days.  Come back and check it, and it’s entirely possible that people have answered your questions.  Some answers are excellent, well-reasoned and clearly well thought out, while others are utter garbage.

But where this comes in for you is that, if you become one of those people, and one of those excellent, well-reasoned, and well thought out responses, you get to establish yourself, if only for a short while, as someone who knows what they’re talking about.  And if you include a link back to your blog, you can continue to show the Yahoo Answers folks that you really know your stuff.

And convincing a community the size of Yahoo Answers that you are indeed an expert in your field of choice can’t help but light a fire under your readership counts.

Providing useful content has always been the key to driving more traffic to your blog. People have questions, if you provide answers they will keep coming back, more than that they will tell others about you.

Specifically going out of your way to find the questions people are asking and then providing solid answers in your posts is a great way to build a following rapidly. Whether you are using forum’s, Yahoo answers, Twitter or other sites, finding what the top questions are that relate to your blog and then creating blog posts that relate to those questions will show people how helpful you are.

Once you have the posts created go back to those sites and post a link to the post along with a short extract that tells people that this is a place where they can find the answer they are looking for.

What sites do you use to find content ideas?