To change the personal information that displays with your answers and on your personal profile page, click the ‘Edit Your Profile Information’ link located in the ‘Contributor Options’ widget over in the sidebar of the page – near the top.  Once you click this link, you are directed to your profile editor which allows you to customize all of your personal information.  Simply make your desired updates and make sure to click the ‘update’ button at the bottom of the page.  That’s it.

Contributors are able to raise their score by answering more questions on the site.  Every answer you provide will earn you more points – so the more you participate on the site, the more points you will earn. Answer points are based on the length and detail of your answers.

In addition to answering questions, users can earn an easy 50 points by completing their agent profile.

Participating on InsuranceLibrary.com is a great way to increase your online visibility and generate free insurance leads.  In addition to these direct visibility benefits, InsuranceLibrary.com is able to drive value to your other online marketing efforts.  This is done by:

1. Completing your personal profile and adding links to your website, blog and social media properties.  This is a great way to share more information about yourself and drive traffic to these properties.
2. Your profile links send strong relevancy signals to search engines like Google – which helps increase the search engine visibility of your other web properties.

3. Answering questions in the knowledge base is a great way to showcase your expertise and enhance your personal brand & online identity.

Every answer includes a ‘+1’ button.  This button allows website visitors to ‘upvote’ an answer if they feel it is valuable and directly answers the question.

InsuranceLibrary.com contributors have the ability to achieve different “levels” based on the number of contributor points they have accrued.  All contributors start off with a ‘basic’ profile, but after after accumulating a certain number of points they are able to achieve ‘enhanced’ and ‘premium’ status.

As contributors reach higher levels, more features and functions are made available to them within their answers on their contributor profile pages.

Users that contribute answers to questions are awarded points.  Users receive more points for answers that are greater in length and detail. In addition to answering questions, contributors can earn an easy 50 points by completing their agent profile.

The more points a user has, the more features and functions become available to their profiles.  Additionally, users with higher points get better visibility for their content and they have the ability to be featured on the InsuranceLibrary.com leaderboard.

It does not cost anything to contribute to InsuranceLibrary.com – any licensed insurance agent can participate for free.

An important aspect of SEO is related to quality of links your website gets from other sites on the web.  As an InsuranceLibrary.com contributor, you have the ability to add links to your web properties within your contributor profile.  These links are ‘SEO friendly’ and can help your website, blog and social media profiles perform better in search engines like Google.

Those users that achieve a ‘premium profile’ status are able to customize the link text to their website, which adds even more SEO value.

Agents are able to generate leads by answering questions that are posted to the site.   Contributor profiles for all levels of users include a ‘Contact Me’ button, which allows consumers to securely send a message to an agent.  Users that have achieved ‘enhanced’ or ‘premium’ status have a ‘Contact Me’ button within each of their answers – making it even easier for consumers to contact an agent.

Many agents find that certain types of consumer questions generate a nice number of high quality leads.

There are a number of reasons why insurance agents love contributing to InsuranceLibrary.com:

1. It’s free promotion.  It’s a great way to get your name and contact information out there and position yourself as a subject matter expert.
2. It drives traffic to websites, blogs and social media properties
3. It generates leads via the ‘Contact Me’ button and website links
4. It adds SEO value to your overall online marketing strategy
5. It’s fun!

If you are a licensed insurance agent, it’s very easy to get started.  Simply head over to the ‘Contributor Registration’ page and submit your application.  Once your application has been submitted and your license status has been verified, all you need to do is check your email to click the email verification link.  That’s it!

No.  InsuranceLibrary.com only features content from licensed insurance agents.