What profit is yahoo getting from this ask & answer?
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None yet, but later when it comes out of beta it will most likely be covered with advertising...and that's where the revenue will come from.
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On a daily basis I find from 20 to 50 opportunities on Yahoo! Answers. Many of those end up being scams, MLM, vitamins or vi#gra. Only the rare opportunity comes along that is even looking to the future of business and the internet.\nI hope yours is this kind of opportunity.
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look from the company's perspective and answer the question "Whats the return on investment of advertising on this site?". If you are sure you have a strong case, then target the company and do the selling :)
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Yahoo is a publicly traded company (on the stock market).  They have a fiduciary duty to show a return on equity for their shareholders.  All advertising can be broken down simply into eyeballs. The more eyeballs, the more money, advertisers would be willing to pay for spots reaching the eyeballs.\nAs I type this, there are no advertisements on the page, YET.  Believe me, at some future point, Yahoo will be selling advertisements on the side of these answer blogs to potential clients.  Yahoo's sales presentation will include the number of users, demographic info. on the users (compiled from our registrations), and time spent reading and answering these questions.  It'll result in another online revenue stream for the company. In the corporate world, it is almost always about the money.
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It's a blog site that lets you put ads in your blog posts (via Google's AdSense). You actually get paid (between $0.02 and $1.00) for each click on ads you've placed. An interesting concept.
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Wow, Amy.  That's a really good rate.  You're not trying to get us ALL to go to that site, are you?  Because that would be SPAM and I don't think Yahoo! will look to favorably on that.
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I answer questions on Yahoo.  Wanna pay me?
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Its gonna be $10 per question and...\n\n$100 per correct answer.
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previous answer is dead on the money
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Yahoo doesn't make the rates the companies yuo research or brought up do. and information on companies change daily.\nBut so far all dividend rates i've seen on yahoo matched the ones  paid me.\nYOu should be getting a check form the company right after the rates are announced by the company.  That is all the company does is announced the rate which brokage reporters  than put on yahoo finance. Companies always want the public to see they are  paying a dividend as it improves their image, but sometimes some  companies will exaggerate their dividends (which yahoo has no control over) to entice investors to buy their stock, These are usually companies in trouble.
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Yahoo has named this test project "Project Panama," where ads placement are now based on price and relevancy of ad. Yahoo is expected to test this in the UK in July.\n\nCurrently, Yahoo places a paid ad solely based on the amount you are willing to pay for the keyword. Google uses both price of the keyword and a "quality score" to rank the ad.\n\n \n \nRBC analyst Jordan Rohan reports that Yahoo! has released a test version of its new search monetization in Scandinavia and will expand the rollout to the U.K. in July.\n\nCodenamed “Project Panama,” Yahoo’s new model will be similar to that of Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), which ranks search-engine ads by both the amount advertisers pay for keywords and the relevance of the ad. The Google-like algorithm should result in higher click-through rates than its older model that ranked ads only by the amount paid for keywords.
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Per per clicks are real, but they DO NOT PAY YOU. You pay them, your website gets more visits, so you make more money.
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A lot of the people I know do it through two ways: either advertisments or through an affiliate program. By creating a site people want to see and then placing Yahoo or Google ads on it you can earn money when visitors click those ads. \n\nAffiliate programs are offered by many big companies like Amazon.com. Basically you sell their products on your web page  and you get some of the profits for each purchase! Check the links below for more information.
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Hi Paul, here's am excellent article by Marshall Brain, the founder of HowStuffWorks.com. Its titled 'How much money can you make with a web site?' and caters presicely to your question. Here's the link :\n\nhttp://webkew.blogspot.com/2005/04/lesson-3-how-much-money-can-you-make.html\n\nAnd one more thing, don't agree on buck247's answer, if you study his answers, he is advertising for the company, and has submitted around 59 answers with the same content. Beware!
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Not yet, but give Yahoo time to figure out how to charge people.