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Is anyone having success with Quora answers to drive traffic to their site?

Is anyone having success with Quora answers to drive traffic to their site?

I would love to see examples of answers that are driving traffic, along with some data.

If you can help, thanks a bunch!

on January 29, 2019
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    I've used Quora before, answering top questions and including a link back to my blog content or product page. I would say the traffic is often low, but slow and steady over time.

    This is one questions that I've answered, for example: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-simple-CRM-for-a-B2C-startup

    This page sends around 15 people to our site per week. So super low, but also really steady and highly qualified for our business. If you can find a few of these types of questions to answer, it can be worth it.

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    I’ve used Quora with some success. Got a few thousand visitors and used it as a reference when writing guest posts.

    I get a stream of traffic to my website. About 150 - 200 visitors a month and that can spike if one of my answers goes viral.

    It happens with every 15th answer or so.

    The CTR varies and depends on how you incorporate your links. Natural I’m context links get anywhere from 1-5% CTR.

    This one had 10% CTR.
    https://www.quora.com/What-skill-should-I-learn-for-1-2-hours-a-day-that-will-help-me-become-successful/answer/Daniel-Ndukwu

    This one has a ~1% CTR https://www.quora.com/What-is-something-that-most-first-time-startup-founders-do-not-realise/answer/Daniel-Ndukwu

    If you add a footer, it can generate a CTR of .5-2%. It depends on relevance and positioning as not all people will read to the end.

    The key is to choose the right answer and then make something really in-depth.

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    I've used it for years as a strategy and find it brings a small amount of steady traffic to my little project management software comparison site and my main website. The main tactics are answering questions (linking to my content a little but mostly other resources) and building wikis. The wiki strategy is mainly to write or rewrite a one paragraph intro with one link to my content and then bullet points for resources from the top answers. Doesn't seem too intrusive and works well.

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    @farcosailas
    I am still a newbie but recently hit a mini-Jackpot with:
    https://www.quora.com/Is-130K-CHF-total-annual-gross-a-good-salary-to-live-in-Switzerland (you can guess which answer)

    Stats:

    • over 9k answer views in 7 days and still growing
    • over 200 website visits

    My personal observation is that Quora favors good performing answers, probably based on CTR - which means that a slightly 'click-baity' intro gives a lot.

    Then, of course, you have to answer the question comprehensively (+ nice formatting doesn't hurt)

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    We (@kickofflabs) have a had good success with Quora, but it is definitely a long tail marketing strategy.

    If you plan on being in business for many years, it can certainly help move the bottom line.

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    My most popular answer on Quora has 10 upvotes and 4.6k views.

    But I haven't get enough traffic from it.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-platform-to-write-a-chatbot/answer/Farid-Movsumov

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      How did you reach to Chris Messina? what type of message you sent to him. I am really wondering that. I also tried to ask these type of famous guys to hunt my project but no one replied to me :(

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    Just bumping this up :)

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