I Became a Top Writer on Quora
Hey everyone,
I have some good news to share with you.
Recently, I received the following notification from Quora:
This came after my best month — this February — in which only two answers garnered a lot of interest in the form of views, upvotes, and comments.
If you've been reading my blog posts, you must know by now that my niche is chess.
I'm only an early intermediate chess player who views the game as a hobby. There are tons of experts and grandmasters out there who are far more experienced than I am.
Therefore, to be put in the same bracket as them is definitely a sign of good work.
The topic Chess on Quora has more than 314,000 followers, so it's by no means an untrodden path.
I've previously said that Quora is a very long game. By that, I mean that it's much slower in terms of traffic acquisition than Pinterest, for example.
Having said that, it can be a great way to establish yourself as an authority in your niche.
Just today, I got this message from someone:
Poor T thinks I'm a chess expert. Little do they know that I'm just as clueless as them.
This goes to show how your writing can really give off the impression that you know much more than you actually do.
In other words, your niche can be something you're just passionate about — not necessarily something you're very knowledgable about.
Here are my two best-performing answers which got me the Top Writer status. They're still getting upvotes as we speak.
Let me know if any of you would like to see me do a sort of series where I share tips and insights on how to do well on Quora.
Thanks for reading.
Yusuf
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Excellent to hear Yusuf!
I've never really ventured onto Quora myself and would be interested to hear how much traffic you are getting to your site from it?
It's obviously worth doing otherwise I doubt you would be doing it!!
Nice going again my friend and enjoy a wonderful Sunday!
Thank you Nick.
The truth is that Quora is a very long game. Here's why:
From first-hand experience, I can tell you that your answers will get way less views if you include links to your articles in them.
Therefore, the best game plan is to be as genuine and helpful as possible and hope that eventually, people would be so interested in finding out more about you that they would go to your profile and find your website in your bio.
This is much more of a long-term plan than, say, Facebook, where you would typically keep writing posts with links to your website.
That's very interesting to learn Yusuf...
Basically, what we all need to do with our sites then, be as helpful as possible, don't spam them with links and gain their trust!
I don't use SM as I personally loathe it, but... if Google carries on as she is at the moment then using it as well as forums such as Quora may well be the way to go moving forward!
Appreciate the info as always my friend! :-)
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Great work Yusuf, what sort of traffic is this sending to your website as it seems to have a lot of views. Do you find Quora timeconsuming as I have started looking at it but can't decide whether to start investing some time into
Any tips to help me decide?
Cheers and great to see you making such good progress :-)
Pete
Thanks a lot Pete.
In all honestly, it's only a handful of visitors I got from Quora. As I said in my reply to Jessiefido, promoting your website on Quora is much more indirect and long-term than on other venues.
Pinterest, for example, is much more direct and can theoretically grow your traffic much faster, but my niche isn't big on Pinterest, so I'm focusing on other options.
I'm currently also posting on Facebook and LinkedIn. I may share some progress in the near future if I get some traffic from those.