Quora Marketing: The Complete Guide For 2023

For those of you who are already familiar with Quora, feel free to skip this chapter and move on to the next one. In this chapter, I’ll briefly cover the basics of Quora and what you need to know to get started.

How to Set Up Your Quora Account?

• Go to Quora.com and sign up using your email, or by linking to your Gmail/Facebook.

• Follow the topics you care about the most; your feed will display a selection of questions and answers relating to these topics. Don’t worry, you can change it later.

After you have opened a Quora account and verified it, you will be directed to a dashboard that will look like this (I’m using a dark version, which is possible to modify in settings):

 

The left part is your spaces/topics feed which shows all the topics you follow. The middle part is your feed, presenting a mixture of questions and answers related to the topics you follow.

How to Make Your Quora Profile Stand Out?

Creating a well-presented Quora profile can help you stand out from the crowd, make people remember your name, and even drive people to your site.

Let’s go over Asim Qureshi’s profile. Besides being one of my favorite Quora writers, Asim is also a Quora top writer and a marketing genius. His answers generate millions of views every month.

So, what makes Asim’s profile great:

• Well presented and good quality profile picture.
• Straight to the point credentials: Quora credentials is a 50-character catchphrase that appears under your name on your profile. The millions of people who visit Asim’s profile know right away that he is the CEO of Jibble, which is great for branding.
• Profile Description: This is where you can use your creativity to attract people to your site. Write briefly about yourself or your company and why it’s worth checking out. Link to your Linkedin, Twitter, or other relevant channels that can show people more about yourself and your activities. If your Quora answers are good enough, people will be curious and want to delve further into what you do.

How to Use Quora Credentials the Right Way?

Quora lets you customize your credentials for each answer you write. The idea behind this is to give readers context right away. It tells them why you’re a credible source for answering that particular question. In the examples below, Asim has answered two different questions. The first question is university-related, and Asim’s credentials show he has an MA in Physics from Oxford University. You might wonder why he is not showing his company name, the answer is being viewed by many people after all. In my opinion, the main reason is that the Quora algorithm favors credentials that suit the answer. Stating that he studied at Oxford is providing more legitimacy to his answer than stating he is the CEO of Jibble would.

In the second question, Asim’s credentials state he is the CEO of Jibble for obvious reasons.

 

Here are three reasons why Quora should be one of your top used marketing channels:

Reach your target audience at the right moment: To better understand how valuable Quora is, we should first briefly go over the buyer’s journey structure. The sales funnel is a marketing model that visualizes the journey of prospects as they become customers. It’s called a “funnel” because, at each stage of the journey, fewer prospects remain. The stages of the sales funnel are:

TOFU (Top of Funnel) – The TOFU stage is when prospects first become aware of your product or service.

MOFU (Middle of Funnel) – The MOFU stage is when prospects are considering your product or service.

BOFU (Bottom of Funnel) – The BOFU stage is when prospects are ready to buy your product or service.

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With Quora you can reach people mid-funnel, which is considered to be the best time to influence your target audience. Selecting the right questions to answer, and being there when your target audience is looking for a valuable and trustworthy answer, can drive great traffic to your site, promoting brand awareness and credibility within your industry.

Improve brand presence: By doing in-depth SEO research to find strategic questions to answer, you can put your name before your target audience (be it developers, decision-makers or investors) over and over again in a positive context. Quora might be a small part of the puzzle of your entire marketing strategy, but it can have a great impact on your entire sales funnel.

Become a thought leader: Becoming a thought leader is a difficult task. In many cases, tech founders spend extreme amounts just to get opportunities to write articles for different popular publications. These publications are likely to limit those who wish to contribute articles with strict guidelines, like not including links to the author’s website, making the entire effort feel less worthy. Even if you do get the chance to add a few links to your site, you might still be disappointed with the traffic those articles drive to visit it. Quora can be a great alternative. When used effectively, Quora can be a powerful tool for building your reputation as a thought leader. Writing good answers on Quora can lead to mass exposure.

In some cases, if your answer goes viral, you can get featured on top-tier sites like Forbes and Huffpost.

For example, look at this Forbes article:

The article features a Quora answer written by Garret Reisman. This mention gives Garret great exposure and increased professionalism for being mentioned on one of the most prestigious sites in the world. Quora provides an excellent opportunity for thought leaders to share their ideas and insights with a wider audience.

 

Useful Quora Statistics for Marketers

Based on the latest report from Quora, over 109 million users follow technology as a topic, and content related to technology receives over 400 million views a month.

Quora claims its audience is:

Based on Ahrefs, Quora ranks on the first page of Google (top 10 results) for over 5 million different search terms.

 

With millions of questions being asked on Quora, finding the right questions to answer becomes tricky. Having keyword research in place can help you focus on questions that are strategically important for your branding and SEO efforts. If you already have keyword research, you can use that. In case the research is still in progress, we can show you how to create keywords research quickly and effectively.

Run a Keywords Research

Keyword research helps you focus on Quora questions that will benefit your SEO efforts. Standard keyword research allows you to focus on shorter search terms; however, in my experience, Quora marketing shows the best results when you create a dedicated Q&A keywords research, focusing mostly on long tail keywords.

Let’s assume you have built a code analysis and debugging tool for developers. You can use AnswerThePublic for free (with limited daily searches) to find out what people are searching on Google. Combine it with the SurferSEO Chrome extension, which can help by revealing search volumes right on your Google search, and you have the perfect coupling for keyword research.

Let’s search on AnswerThePublic for your most broad topic, in this case ‘debugging’. Make sure you choose your target region and language, then click ‘Search’.

By default, most of the data will be displayed like this:

Click on the data for a much more convenient overview. You can export the file by clicking on Download CSV in the top-right corner of the screen.

 

After scrolling down the page, I found a few subtopics I’d like to dive into a little more:

I can run AnsewerThePublic again for each of those keywords separately to find more related keywords.

Once you have installed the SurferSEO extension, your Google search will also show you the search volume for the keywords you look for:

You can click on the star icon to save any of the keywords. On the right side of your screen, use the ‘Keyword Ideas’ to find more relevant keywords. Then, click on ‘Clipboard’ to find all the keywords you saved:

Why is Keywords Research Important for Quora Marketing?

Preparation is the key to your success, and when it comes to Quora marketing, keywords research can help you better understand which topics to focus on, how popular these topics are, and how difficult it is to rank for them. Thus, it can help you find more relevant long tail keywords that you can use for your other marketing channels (blogs, Medium, etc.).

Finding Quora Questions to Answer

Found a question you think you’d like to answer? Here are some things to ask yourself to help determine if the question is worth answering for you:

• Is the question relevant to my expertise or interests?
• Can I give any insight or value to the readers that other people who answered the question didn’t mention?
• Does the question have a good amount of views and engagement?
• Is the question already answered by top writers?
• Is the question ranked on Google and can it help with my SEO activities?

If you can answer most of these with a yes, then the question is probably worth answering. Remember that you don’t need to answer every Quora question within your niche. With time you’ll learn how to pick the right questions to answer that are more likely to get a good amount of views and drive traffic to your site.

Searching for a Quora question to answer is easy, but it will get to a point where Quora’s search will feel inefficient. I like to use Quora search and Google to build a keywords bank before I begin answering questions.

On Quora, search for one of the keywords you found in your keyword research. Then, click on the first result.

Quora search results might be a bit overwhelming at first sight; click on ‘Questions’ and then play with the time frame filter to help provide you with a helpful ordering of questions. Older questions are more likely to have higher views and also higher competition (more people who answered).

 

Another way to find Quora questions around your target keyword is by using Google.

Go to Google.com and search for:

site:https://www.quora.com/ python debugging

 

Create a document with all the relevant questions you find. To keep it organized, I recommend mentioning the focus keyword that led you to each question.

o better understand how to write a good answer on Quora, we should first cover how the Quora algorithm works.

Quora ranks insightful answers based on different parameters. In a Quora answer (written seven years ago), they shed some light on their ranking system:

• Upvotes and downvotes on the answer, in part based on how trustworthy they are in a given topic.
• The previous answers written by the author.
• Whether the author is an expert in the subject.
• The contents of the answer, including the type and quality of content (words, photos and links).
• Other signals, including ones that help us prevent gaming of ranking through votes.

 

Having written answers on Quora for years, I believe their algorithm also tends to favor (unconfirmed data):

• Traffic: Sharing your Quora answer and driving traffic to it can have a positive impact on answer ranking.
• Internal linking: By linking to another Quora page/answer, you keep the readers on the site, making your answer strategically more important for Quora. Since word count is also a factor Quora considers, I believe that internal linking can be equivalent to the bounce rate on Google analytics. If your answers can keep readers on Quora for more time, it makes sense their algorithm will give it priority.
• Bullet points and bold text: Search engines love bullet points and might display the answer in Position Zero. Bullet points and bold text can make your answer stand out and make it more comfortable to read, while also giving your reader’s eyes an easier structure than other answers, which might just be long paragraphs without much space between them.
• Quora comments and shares: These activities create more engagement around your answer and can signal to the Quora algorithm that your answer should rank highly.

 

Here’s an example of a great answer written by Ken Gregg. By following a similar structure (when possible), you will increase the chances of your answer getting more engagement:

SEO is a long process. Creating high-quality content on your website and building backlinks will speed up the process, but only to a certain point. What if you could rank on Google’s first page for a few of your focus keywords within days?

Here at Growtika we help our clients rank for hundreds of keywords in no time using many different growth hack methods that we have developed in-house. This simple Quora SEO method can be used to find questions that are already ranked high on search engines around your target keywords. By answering those questions using the tips mentioned in this guide, you will be able to boost the ranking of your answer, which in turn gives you a quick way to rank high on Google.

I’m using Ahrefs to find these opportunities. Search for quora.com, and click on ‘Organic Keywords‘.

In the next window, click on ‘Position‘. For the limit, insert the number 10 (first ten results on Google), and click ‘Apply.’

Next, click on ‘Keyword‘, change it from ‘Exact Match‘ to ‘Partial Match‘, and insert the focus keyword you want to target (one of the keywords you found using the Quora keywords research I showed you above). In this case, instead of ‘debugging’, I will write ‘debug’, since the partial match search will now show both options. I clicked ‘Apply’ and have found 133 Quora answers that rank on the first page of Google and contain my target keyword in the title.

Repeat this method for all your target keywords, write high-quality answers and enjoy the full power of Quora marketing for your startup.

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