As of today, Askville, Amazon’s question and answer service, has been officially launched…or at least relaunched as Vallywag reports. While there are questions of whether its slightly incentivized business model (you can earn Amazon gift cards for giving answers) will be enough to unseat Yahoo! as the king of questions and answers, the real question for affiliates is whether they can make money by dropping affiliate links in Askville answers.

If you ask me, I’d say yes…so long as Askville can build up its users, and as long as people are asking questions about stuff related to the products that an affiliate promotes.

A search for “insurance” at Askville shows that there are insurance related questions being asked, so I bet some affiliate traffic could be drawn from that. My real question is who will be the first person to start dropping InsureMe affiliate links into Askville answers?

Anybody willing to give it a shot? If so, let me know how it goes.