Do you enjoy chasing around Yahoo Answers? Well WebAnswers has a similar feel but at WebAnswers you can actually get paid for answering people’s questions. Some questions are simple facts that can be looked up in seconds (makes you wonder why they ask) and others are looking for opinions (I’m full of opinions are you?).
Here is how to set up WebAnswers for Passive Income
1. Get an Adsense Account (if you don’t have one already)
2. Sign up for an account at WebAnswers (free)
3. Answer at least 10 questions or get 2 answers selected as Best Answer. (can be done in minutes)
4. Go to Earn Extra Income and input your email address associated with your Adsense account plus part of your phone number and your Zip Code.
5. Respond to the email the site sends you to authorize access.
6. Google Adsense sends you an email to confirm the setup. You will be able to see WebAnswers in your Adsense account shortly. Look under the My Account -> Account Access tab when logged into Adsense.
Pluses and Minuses of WebAnswers
+ Very Easy to Use Site. Good look and feel. The colored blurbs are a nice touch.
+ Good Clear FAQs and Guides On Site.
+ Links – Once you establish authority you can selectively insert relevent links including to your own articles, blog etc.
+ No need to think of topics to write about, just answer questions well
+ Paid through Google Adsense. Aggregated earnings from other Adsense projects and sites
+ Available anywhere Google will pay people (India, Philippines, Indonesia etc.)
+ WebAnswers rewards quality answers and positive site participation in multiple ways including giving you more ads to earn off.
+ Currently you can also earn on Adsense by Asking Questions. Some people are asking a lot of questions so they must think it is worth it.
Neutral: New users start at 60% share of Adsense Revenue. Better percentage than some but not as good as other sites like Infobarrel. It looks like you can earn increased impressions by building authority and being active. Also referring visitors and members earns extra Adsense impressions.
+ You earn full Adsense share by getting Best Answer “awarded” to you. You share Adsense on questions you and others answer and you could get share on pages anywhere on the site if you are active or when you refer visitors.
+ Revenue sharing used to only last for 1 year but now it lasts forever.
+ There is now a referral program. You earn extra Adsense impressions for referring visitors and you earn 10% of the Adsense out of the Webanswer side of the impressions for every user you refer over to WebAnswers. There is a place in your profile where you can see how many extra impressions you got from referrals.
Neutral: The site reports that top users make “well over $500 a month” from WebAnswers. Not enough to quit your American day job over but a decent side income for Americans and a very good income in some countries.
- While the formula for Adsense Sharing on pages awarded to you is clear, the way they give you extra ad placements and possibly increase your adsense share is secret and based on some sort of quality score. I imagine this is secret to prevent people gaming the system. They do have a very clear explanation of what they consider quality input to be.
+Once you have some awarded answers you can track the number of views and links under the Make More Money Tab that will appear.
+ Webanswers is based in Colorado USA and there is a contact form, email and fax number for them posted on the site. There is also a support forum.
My Tips for WebAnswers Success
- As in any Adsense based web writing, there are good and poor keywords and topics. I suggest focusing on higher value topics like finance and staying away from lower value topics.
- Rephrase the question into something a user might naturally type into Google and include some terms that people would likely search for to increase the traffic the question page gets.
- Since you need to be awarded the best answer to maximize your earnings, put some thought into your response. Stick to questions you can answer well.
- Posting bogus answers or useless comments will not help you earn at WebAnswers, in fact it will hurt you. Save this fun for Yahoo Answers where there is no money to be made.
- Recent questions from active users are more likely to be awarded a best answer.
- Sometimes you can read other’s answers and then write a better one building on their work. On the other hand you might be selected as best answer easier if you are the only person to answer.’
- Read the tips the WebAnswers site provides.
- Check the tools under My Account. Lots of useful information there especially as you develop some track record at the site.
Are you already using WebAnswers.com? I’d love to have your feedback in the comments.
For another good Adsense Sharing site consider is Infobarrel
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Thank you for the answer. However there is no right or wrong answer for that question. Anyways thanks for answering. Cheers
This is great information. Thanks for sharing…
Thanks for sharing this site with us. Using it I’ve already made more money with AdSense in the past seven days than I did all last month.
Thanks for your comments Russ. I noticed you on there too. Similarly I’m very encouraged by the results of my webanswers experiment. It’s not a get rich quick scheme but it is starting to generate some nice Adsense residual income.
I think WebAnswers is a great idea for an AdSense revenue sharing site, but the execution is kind of disappointing. I loved it at first, but it soon started to bother me that the site isn’t more transparent about how you get impressions apart from awarded answers (and plenty of questions NEVER receive an awarded answer). With most AdSense revenue sharing sites, you know you’ll get impressions at a set percentage when people visit your content. With WebAnswers it’s more up in the air due to their mysterious quality score system, and they’re not open about what percentage of impressions you get for asking questions, either.
Yes they are a little vague to prevent people gaming the system. I spend a little time there and it is the only site that consistently earns me something every single day even though I don’t visit often. It looks like they split earnings between all those who answer on questions without an award. One of the experts there said he earns more on the unawarded questions than on the ones awarded to him. I also read that you earn on questions you ask until they are answered (not clear though). All I know is that I earned more the days I was active but that I continue to earn passively.
Its really a nice information and now only i will start this.And thanks for information..
Hi Jade – thanks for this tip it sounds like a really good idea and I will be checking it out. Are you still using it ? Is it any good for making money with Adsense ? And also, as you can get money for asking questions and answering questions, can you not answer your own questions and get more money that way ?
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I don’t go to Webanswers very often since I’m very busy on my business but I earn Adsense from Webanswers absolutely every day. Answering or asking questions today will pay off over time. I suppose you could ask and answer the same question but it would look a little strange. \It is fine to answer questions others have answered because they split the revenue among the people who answer unless a best answer is chosen at which point the best answer gets the clicks. Pretty much anything you do you get clicks for over there. You need to answer a few questions before you can get Adsense (not hard)
Hey, any chance you can mention the hot revenue sharing program offered from the Big City Informer News Network?
It offers you 80% of the ad revenue and you can publish news from your city there ;)
Thanks
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So am I to put “webanswers.com” in the website url section of AdSense signup?
Sure, you can do that on the Adsense application.
Thank you for telling me about WebAnswers, I signed up last week and have earned money each day since. I wonder where you got your information that the revenue is only for a year because I’ve studied the FAQ’s and can’t find anything that suggests it’s for a year and not for life. I’m just wondering what your sources are. BTW I’m frinh on WebAnswers.
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At the time I wrote the review Webanswers stated that you earned on awarded questions for one year. This may have changed (whoo hoo) since looking at the FAQs and other information I can’t see that point. Thanks for raising it – maybe a good question to ask at WebAnswers.
Good article. I want to mention that another way to make money without a website (and with adsense) is writing articles for Hubpages.com
Yes, Hubpages is a good site too. I don’t use it yet only because I have a number of other revenue sharing sites I use.
Great article. I’m using shetoldme and best-reviewer and I am also using webanswers. I’m making $60 a month. I started in Jan
Great progress. It just builds from there as you add more and more content that has your adsense id associated with the content.
Thank you very much for that useful information. Great article!
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Great article. I like the way you explained everything in detail for all potential new users of webanswers.
My goal is to reach that $100 every month by the end of the year. So far, it looks as if I will manage only every second month. In my opinion, webanswers are the best way to get ideas for your own articles and to earn some small additional income. If you are using Ad Sense on your site, this can be a welcome additional earnings.
Best of luck…
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Really good article. I answered a question that might help some readers looking to join webanswers. Here is a link to it.
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This is really it.wow,i don’t have any idea that i can now increase my adsense earnings,it’s really worthy of an oscar.this blog is the best for money info’s!
i just seached in google and actually i am interestd to join webnaswer. but after reading your post, i am no sure to join it. the risk of joing it is nothing but get banned from google adnses and we get nothing for jobs we did. not too good sites even it is chatagorically scam site