Utilizing answering services is a great way to diversify your link building strategy. Most services utilize nofollows or strip content of any HTML tags before posting. However, there are some services that allow linking and even if they don’t, the traffic can be well worth it.

There are four services that I’ll talk about today but not it great detail. We’ll just get to the meat…do they allow linking or do they not. My all-time personal favorite and relatively new contender in this arena is Fluther. Fluther has a great GUI and is easy to navigate. All links can be followed and since this service is relatively new, the odds of establishing yourself as an authority within your chosen topic are pretty good. My second favorite is LinkedIn Answers. LinkedIn Answers has a great question and answers section where the links are again followable. Of course the subject matter is more career oriented but sometimes there are questions that can benefit from a response that both answers the question and helps to promote your marketing efforts. Thirdly there’s Yahoo! Answers. A massive collection of questions and answers on just about any topic. Unfortunately all links are nofollowed so you’ll just have to rely on the link juice from this service. Fourth is Say-So. Say-so is a weird little Q&A service where you can vote on an answer to a question and then add your two cents about it. All comments are stripped of any HTML but you can textually represent links resulting in a direct visit.

Recap:
Fluther: links followed
LinkedIn Answers: links followed
Yahoo! Answers: nofollow
Say-so: no links period

If anyone knows of other good answering services please let the community know!

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