See an old post: here along with the comments.  Someone with the same name would like me to take this post down because people might confuse him with this person.  It was a person going around committing fraud.

I got a lot of responses from people after that post about him.  I think I would be doing a bad thing to remove it, but I hate to see someone else feel like their reputation is hurt.

What do you think?

 Wink.com is special because it helps you create a great profile of yourself and integrate all your other web accounts and profiles together. If you have the feed from your blog, twitter account or other kind of RSS driven account, you can actually tell wink to display your last few updates as well.

Downsides of Wink
One downside of wink is that there is more advertising than I like on a site like that.

Another downside is that it defaults to allow anyone to edit your profile. If you are going to take the time to set up a profile, you want to lock it down so only you can update it.

To lock your profile, follow these steps:

• Choose My Home at the top right.

• On the lower right under dashboard, choose profile settings.

• Under permissions, change the edit permissions to only yourself.

One other problem we ran into is that it works better with the Firefox browser instead of Internet Explorer.

Wink can be very beneficial in helping you with your online visibility for your name.

Be sure to add lots of websites under “Where I am online.” As your wink profile ranks better, it will also help those pages rank better and drive some traffic.

Yahoo Answers is a tool that you may not have heard about, but it is a good tool for some people to build traffic, develop more search engine visibility and position yourself as an expert.

Saying that, 90% of the questions are not all that serious or professional.  But if you take a few moments and find good questions, and give good answers, this tool can be effective – and addictive.

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Here is why you want to consider participating.

1.  Search Engine Visibility

Each question becomes a webpage with the question at the top and the responses below.  These pages are optimized for the question and they are on Yahoo, so they rank very well very quickly.  If you have answered a question and it contains a link to your website, you could be getting traffic for years to come.  If your answer is selected as the best answer, it is moved to the top.

2. Traffic

Each time you answer a good question, other people are checking it out as well.  You could see steady traffic from a good and interesting answer.

3. Expert Status

Yahoo will not make you an expert by itself, but it is a good place to hone your Q&A.  Plus, you could always point to your expert site as a part of your answer.  If people like your answer and you have a link like:  Need more information about Buzz Marketing?  Sign up for my newsletter….

You cannot do this every time as it is rather spammy, but if it is relevant to the question, you should do it.

4. Ask Questions

You can also ask your own questions.  This helps you capture all of the stuff above and keep it at the top.

Note of Caution:  I have found that the less complex a question is the more it will get responses.  Even though the general questions have been asked many times before, it is probably your best bet.