Introductory Tutorial for Answer Analyst 1.4 and Beyond

Introductory Tutorial for Answer Analyst 1.4 and Beyond

I'm not so sure on how new owners of Answer Analyst will be able to cope with the new features that come with some of the releases. For those who have been following Answer Analyst since version 1.0, these new additions should be easy to follow, but the main question is, will it be demotivating if I just got it

(version 1.4) and knowing that the whole interface simply packs with too much information and you have no idea where to start? Just continue reading and you'll know how:-

Note: This tutorial uses Answer Analyst's interface for version 1.4 (if by any chance you're reading this in the future when it's 1.8 or 2.x, some of the information might still apply, but I'll try to update this tutorial as time goes by)

Step 1: Get Familiar With the Interface
Easier said than done, but just for the sake of getting yourself familiarized, just go through the interface, type in some words, select some items from the dropdown menu, click the buttons, do whatever you want. It doesn't matter if it gives you the results / content you want, the idea here is to play around. Nothing beats practical tryouts even if you're doing it the wrong way. Go crazy and click away. The labels for each area are not so technical in nature, so it should provide ample description on what it is and what to expect. I take that if you own a copy you've gone through the video on Answer Analyst's site before? That video, although outdated (as of today 25th Feb 2009), should give you some idea on how to use the software.

Step 2: Get Your Questions



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1. If you're trying to do a research on "Iced Coffee Recipes" for example, type in this phrase into the Keywords box at the top. 
2. There are 2 options for the drop down box (Ask.com & Y! Answers). For more results, use both, but don't forget to tick "Add to questions" once you're done with the first one. If you don't tick this your most recent results will overwrite your current one. 
3. For the country dropdown box, it just simply represents what language you're doing your research in. From my personal testing, you need to put in your keywords (Get Questions) and / or questions (Get Answers) in the respective language in order to get results within that language. This feature has not been thoroughly tested in detail, so for those who have a better insight on this, do leave your comments.

Now once your questions have been generated, you can either just leave them alone or copy them to the clipboard to save them in your favorite text editor for future reference. This is also a good time to save your project. Save it using a unique name, e.g. the keywords used, etc. so that you'll know which project is which.

Step 3: Get Your Answers

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This part might get a little complex as there are a lot of checkboxes and dropdown menus, but no worries they look much easier than they look. AREA 1 (from the screenshot above) is where all of your questions you did in STEP 1 will be.

OPTION 1 (Using questions from Step 2)

1. To get your research going, select and click on one question from AREA 1.
2. You'll notice that the chosen question will now appear in AREA 2 in the Question box.
3. Before you click on the "Get Answers" button, there are few options that you need to look at.
• Google dropdown menu - Select Google or Y! Answers to determine your source of information. Best to get information from both sources and always remember to double check "Add to current results" checked.
  
• Short, Medium & Long Answers - This option simply means how much information that you want to get back, I think in terms of paragraphs. Always choose Long Answers for more information.
• Secondary Answers (Ticked by default) - Display answers which the software labeled as answers which are not directly related to the main question. Tick this to get these answers anyway, they might provide good additional information.
• Add to current results (Ticked by default) - Self explanatory. Always leave this checked if you're getting answers from more than one question and want all of the results to appear in AREA 3 (from screenshot above).
• Loose matching - Good to use if you're not getting any results / answers. This kind of answers usually are not directly related and most likely to be out of topic, but a majority of them will be somewhat useful and indirectly applicable. Also good to compliment answers with additional information.
4. As you notice, all the results will be in AREA 3. To browse through the questions according to the question you've researched, use the "Jump To" function. The dropdown menu allows you to select and jump to the respective questions instead of scrolling through the list of answers.

OPTION 2 (Type in your keyword in the Question box)
This feature / method is introduced in version 1.40, so if you haven't got your software updated, do it now. The difference between this method and OPTION 1 is that you can get your answers ready by just typing in the question box in AREA 2. For more info on this new feature click here.

Step 4: Select Your Answers & Add to Research
After you've done all your research and data extraction, it's time for you to filter out the results and choose the best. You'll notice that on the left of each answers, there'll be a square checkbox. Check this box if you like the answer and go on till you reach to the bottom of the results. You'll have 2 buttons at the bottom in order to interact with the items you've checked within the results area.

Add to Research

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This will simply add your selected answers into a copy and paste friendly page. All this will be done within the Research Tab right at the top left just beside the Questions Tab. Click  "Copy Research to Clipboard" once you're satisfied and paste it into your favorite text editor.


Add With References

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This will work the same way as "Add to Research" but this time around it will add in a link below, stating the URL source of where you've obtained the information from. Always give the credit where it's due.

If you've decided to continue on with your research and move back to the Questions tab on the top left corner, you'll realize that the answers which you've selected / checked are now within a yellow background, labeling them as "Sent to Research" so that you won't end up selecting the same answers again.

Step 5: Content Usage
Do note that all of the information collected from this software is meant for research purposes only. If you intend to use the content obtained through this method in its entirety (without modification), you need to indicate the source of information for each content you've selected. Alternatively if you intend to omit the credits and sources, it's essential to grab the most important points and rewrite the content using your own words. This is a research tool, not a content generation tool.

And there you go, I hope I've made this tutorial as easy as possible for everybody. If you have any comments / feedbacks or anything else, feel free to leave your comments. Don't have a copy yet? Get Answer Analyst NOW!

Some software recommendations that compliments Answer Analyst

Some software recommendations that compliments Answer Analyst

This post is based on  "Answer Analyst: Tips & Tricks" posted here previously.

Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is a great way of getting traffic to your sites, regardless whether the blogs belong to the no-follow ones or not. If you post a quality comment which is helpful, lots of other commentators will click on your link and visit your site..

Recommended Free Software:-
Comment Kahuna
http://www.commentkahuna.com/

Do-Follow search engine
http://www.commenthunt.com/

Creating a FAQ based site and monetize it.
PHPmyFAQ is an open source PHP & MySQL driven script that allows you create your own FAQ based sites. Build up your site with the help of Answer Analyst and build your community from there onwards.

PHPmyFAQ - http://www.phpmyfaq.de/

Make full use of post scheduling in your blog.
There are lots of other blogging softwares and platforms out there but the only 2 I would personally recommend is Wordpress and Blogger. Use their post scheduling features to your advantage and get your blogs working for you on autopilot.

Wordpress - Download or Blog Straight Away!
Blogger - http://draft.blogger.com

Sample Questions & Answers from Answer Analyst

Sample Questions & Answers from Answer Analyst

Since it has been a while Answer Analyst has been launched, we'll run through the software using "Answer Analyst" as the keyword, just for fun of it.

• Can someone with financial analyst experience answer this.?
• How are Ceridian's client support analysts trained to answer cust...?
• Is there a best answer for a case analysis?
• Read my questions and answers and analyze me. What do you think.?
• What is Answer Analysis?
• How to answer a Swot analysis?
• Does the Meta-Analysis Answer a Defined Clinical Question?
• Can Cost-Benefit Analysis Answer Criminal Justice Policy Question...?
• Do I work with only one payroll analyst and who answers any quest...?
• Where can i get cat 2008 full answer keys and cat 2008 analysis.?
• Which of the following is the best answer regarding the use of fi...?
• How do you answer 'Describe your problem analysis skills' in a jo...?
• Will give lots of points, need analysis questions' answers for AP...?
• How long is the answer indicated from your horary chart analysis ...?
• I want to try answer analyst?

You'll notice that there are a lot of general questions and just 1 question directly related to the keyword. Well I guess nobody is asking much about this software. Some of the answers ...

I want to try answer analyst?
This tool can research virtually any question in seconds or minutes instead of hours! Just type in your keyword and viola you will get the big list "the questions about your keyword" Yes. Answer analyst generate articles from the question as the basis. Want to more? Check out the demo video on the link below. And enjoy 20% discount until February, 6th from that link too.

Yes Answer Analyst will be available as of February 2, 2008. Jon Leger is very good at building non quirky products. I think this one will work well.

Sometimes none of the answers get it just right. If so, pick "No Best Answer". Voters DO NOT get any points for voting on the No Best Answer.

Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090129205412AAYcO1m

... try answer analyst from jonathan leger ... Yes Answer Analyst will be available as of February 2, 2008. Jon Leger ... software is created by jonathan leger. You can read answer analyst ...

Answer Analyst Software - By Jon Leger. Just released! Search for answers to questions, get great research almost instantly delivered from all ...

So what is Answer Analyst? It is the latest software developed by Jon Leger that answers any question would ask it. In a nutshell you input a question and within seconds Answer ...

Source: http://answers.yahoo.ca/dir/index?link=vote&sid=2115500189&cp=6&tp=109

Answer Analyst Tips & Tricks: 5 Methods on How You Can Get More Answers

Answer Analyst Tips & Tricks: 5 Methods on How You Can Get More Answers

Each feature of this software by itself is a hidden gold mine. If you take advantage each of them and go through each of it, you'll end up with more than enough amount of information for your research and for your next project.

Part 1: Get Questions
Being able to generate dozens of questions from 2 popular sources within the shortest time possible, you'll be able to attack the market you're in like never before. You'll no doubt be able to harvest essential questions that a number of individuals are asking. Just by knowing the source of their demands and requests is good enough for you to gain numerous ideas and approaches on how you can expand your site and content.

Part 2: Get Anwers
With the generated questions, you're now able to generate a huge amount of answers, just by a few clicks of your mouse. The points and information obtained from this method alone can generate tones of content, or even content from a sub-category or a closely related one.

Part 3: Get FAQ structured Answers (click here to learn about this feature)
By typing a general keyword into the Question box, you again will be able to generate additional information to your already growing list of data. With this method, not only you'll be presented with extra points that to be salvaged, but also information which is nicely presented in a typical FAQ structure. Each question and answer generated with this method would be potential article or a report by itself.

Part 4: Secondary Answers & Loose Matching
The "extra" information that you'll gain from checking these options are somewhat one may call a hidden treasure. In certain cases, the totally out of topic answers might provide you with a new idea or even a something highly complimentary to what you're currently researching. Other information might also provide insights on potential sub markets which you're not aware. This "out-of-topic" question and answers can also be utilized in Part 1: Get Questions above, as the diversity of question will somehow provide extra useful information.

Part 5: Country Drop Down (Language Selector)
It's a quite well known fact that English language only dominates around 30% of the overall Internet population. Chinese comes in second and Spanish third. Although Answer Analyst does not support special characters such as Chinese, you can definitely take advantage of huge internet population of Spanish readers, assuming that you're familiar with this language. You can try French, German and many others as well.

With these 5 main features, I think it's pretty safe to say that you'll get 5 times more information that you could have asked for. 5 times more and 5 times faster, click here to get your own copy of Answer Analyst now if you haven't done so!

Answer Analyst: Tips & Tricks

Answer Analyst: Tips & Tricks

To some, Answer Analyst might greatly help you up with some of the tasks that you often do over and over again. Being a great software, I've been experimenting and searching out for alternative ideas which I can use to fully utilize this research tool. Some of you might say "Oh I've already done that" or "Never thought of that, gonna try it later!", regardless it's something good to share. Here it goes ...

Make people click that forum signature of yours.
Have you tried getting more traffic to your site by having signatures in your form posts? Ever wondered why nobody's clicking it? Personally it's all about providing good and useful information. Perhaps solutions and really beneficial posts to those in need. If somebody asks a question in a forum related to your niche, Answer Analyst can help you to do the proper research in order to obtain the answer. Rephrase / rewrite the answers you've obtained or just provide the content with the source and chances are, your signature link will be much more visible to the eyes of the forum dwellers.

Blog commenting on steroids?
Using the concept as above, the same strategy can be used when you're posting comments on blogs. Good and useful feedback / information always make your post much more attractive than others, hence giving you the boost in traffic.

Create articles the Answer Analyst way.
What way you ask? Have you ever been to the top Article directories and keep on seeing normal articles with paragraphs and paragraphs of information? With the amount of information you can have with Answer Analyst, you can diversify your layout into a ...

1. Q&A / FAQ article. 
2. How about a quiz structured article?
3. A checklist (Have you done this and that?)
4. And many more ...

The idea is here to diversify your content structure, making it straight to the point and easy on the eyes, allowing readers to digest the information fast. When it's easy and smooth flowing to go from the top to bottom of the article, the chances of a reader going right to your biography and clicking the vital link should be a walk in the park.

Become a SUPER ghost writer.
Yeah but one without the cape. If you're a writer and make a living out of it, Answer Analyst will just upgrade everything up. Write more, write faster, this software can even be a starting point of a writing job. Impress your clients with this magnificent tool.

Creating a FAQ based site and monetize it.
Again, breaking the norm is always a good idea. People like fresh new ideas and a place with a different approach. Instead of creating a site with pure information, create a site that evolves around answering the majority's question. People want answers / solutions, and most of them want them quick. So if you can skip all the fillers and introductions and jump right to the point, the quality of your site will expand tenfold, hence creating loyal repeat visitors. Be an authority in the niche!

Make full use of post scheduling in your blog.
Post scheduling is a pretty much a common knowledge for bloggers these days, but have you actually taken full advantage of it or for those who haven't tried it out before, ever planned to give it a try? If you haven't, then you're missing A LOT of things. Well, it's a common knowledge that frequency is an essential factor in maintaining a good blog, but time is unpredictable and it might backfire and get you into some unwanted time conflicts. Planning for a long holiday? A weekend warrior? With Answer Analyst and its ability to generate tones of information on the go, you can plan your blog's future post in the dozens. If you're aiming for 1 to 2 posts a day, this could leave your hands free for the next few weeks or so. Imagine the possiblity!