The YouSaidIt Tour : Social Q&A for Your Website

1. People and Google love Q&A. It produces great content.

Q&A is a phenomenal magnet. People love to ask/answer/browse questions and answers. It is one of the most common sources of information and communication. Some of the biggest sites on the web are Q&A sites (Yahoo Answers).

Google loves questions because people who search are looking for answers. YouSaidIt comes optimized for search engines and it's performance is exceptional. See our Blog for examples.

2. Almost No Moderation

Moderation can make visitor contributions operate at a loss rather than be profitable - as they should be. Moderation is required when you prompt people to get on a soapbox and vent their opinions. Q&A is different: Unsolicited opinions are not asked for, just questions & answers. Discussion takes place in the (collapsed) comments. The result is a community that helps one another.

3. A Loyal Community Where People Have a Reputation

Most contributors to Q&A are repeat visitors who become known in the community and build a reputation. YouSaidIt records reputation by providing users with profiles that show their previous contributions and by scoring their track record based on: 1) Community votes on their questions/answers; 2) whether their questions are featured by the moderator and 3) whether their answers are chosen as favorites by the person asking the question.

4. Truly Social

There is nothing more social than a question. They are structured bits of information: easy to consume and ideal for distribution through social networks. Q&A is not only a social forum on your site, but can be streamed through Twitter or posted to Facebook. This is essential as social media become the dominant source of traffic. Your content now must be able to escape the confines of your site.

5. No More Workarounds

How often have you asked people to ask their questions in the comments? How often have you told them to email their questions? How long have you spent assembling the questions and then emailing them to the "featured guests" or "experts" to get the answers? Then how long does it take to edit it, lay it out in your CMS and publish it? None of that is necessary using Q&A and featuring experts/guests.

6. Your Site - From Skin To Sign-in to Ads

Your Q&A is truly integrated with your site. If you have an existing sign-in then your members will be signed in to your Q&A. When they get there the Q&A will adopt your web styles, will have your banners and branding, and your navigation. You can even zone your ads as you would your other pages. And of course it's your domain and you get the benefits of the SEO.

7. Easy Administration: Feature Posts, Add Widgets

YouSaidIt provides easy administration of your Q&A community and content. You can feature, moderate, review, edit and delete posts. You can feature employees, experts and community members. You can style Q&A pages. You can manage login options and users. You can create widgets to distribute content in the context of your other web pages.