Another day, another viral YouTube video claiming ChatGPT can dump $783.99 into your bank account every single day using a “new untouched method.” I watched the full thing so you don’t have to. The short verdict: the method is not new, it is not untouched, and if you follow it exactly as the creator describes, your Quora account will be gone before you see a single dollar.
Here is what the video actually teaches, why it breaks in practice, and the specific corrections that turn this into a real, long-term traffic strategy. I have used Quora personally for years, accumulated close to 90,000 all-time views on the platform, and drove meaningful early growth to my YouTube channel through it. This is not a theoretical takedown, it is a practitioner’s review with the receipts to back it up.
What You’ll Walk Out With
- A clear picture of what the viral $783.99/day ChatGPT + Quora method actually instructs you to do
- The two specific violations that will get your Quora account banned if you follow the method as taught
- How Alston personally used Quora to grow his YouTube channel (close to 90,000 views, years of real data)
- The correct filtering sequence: sort by Questions, filter by Past Week
- How to use Ahrefs to find Quora answers that already rank on the first page of Google
- The right call-to-action to place in your answers, landing page, not affiliate link
- How to use ChatGPT as a drafting assistant rather than your entire content team
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What the Viral Video Actually Says to Do
The video runs about 15 minutes. After watching it, one thing stands out immediately: this is the same core idea that at least three other viral “side hustle” videos have already covered, repackaged with a fresh thumbnail and a different dollar amount in the title. How many different ways can you say the exact same thing? That was the first reaction after sitting through it.
Here is the method as presented: go to Quora, copy a question from the site, paste it into ChatGPT, copy ChatGPT’s answer, paste the answer back into Quora, then insert your ClickBank or Digistore24 affiliate link. That is the entire $783.99/day strategy. Twenty minutes of video compressed into two sentences.
Quora itself is a legitimate platform, one of the largest question-and-answer sites in the world, built almost entirely on user-generated content. There is nothing wrong with using Quora to build an audience. The problem is the specific execution this creator recommends. Those execution steps violate the platform’s spam policies in ways that will end your account quickly.
There is also a credibility question worth raising. The creator gives no evidence that he actually uses Quora regularly. He shows no stats, no account history, no example answers that have performed well. That gap matters. Advice from someone who does something is different from advice from someone who describes something. The original video reads like the second type.
Why the Method Will Get Your Account Banned
Two things will end your Quora account if you follow the method as taught. The first is pasting raw, unedited ChatGPT text directly into Quora at volume. Quora’s content moderation systems are built to catch automated content, especially when it is posted at high frequency with no variation in style. Raw ChatGPT output has recognizable patterns. Those patterns get flagged.
The second problem is the affiliate link itself. Inserting direct ClickBank or Digistore24 affiliate links into Quora answers is treated as commercial spam by the platform’s moderation team. This is not a gray area, it is explicitly against their policies. Quora allows you to mention products and services in relevant context, but dropping a raw affiliate URL into an answer triggers removal.
This is documented from personal testing. Not a theoretical risk, an actual test, run recently. The answer with a direct affiliate link was removed within eight minutes of posting. Earlier, following advice from a different large YouTuber who said to include Bluehost affiliate links in Quora answers, the account came close to suspension. Both incidents confirmed the same rule: direct affiliate links in Quora answers do not survive.
The contrast between the original creator’s advice and a practitioner’s experience is stark. Close to 90,000 all-time views on Quora, a history of using it to actively grow a YouTube channel, and a clear understanding of what the platform allows, that is the baseline that makes this review different from a surface-level take.
The Correct Way to Find Questions on Quora
The original video skips the most important setup step. Without it, you will waste significant time scrolling through content that has nothing to do with what you want to answer. Here is the correct sequence.
Go to Quora’s search bar and type your niche. Weight loss, personal finance, parenting, budgeting, whatever your area is. After the results load, look for the option to sort by Questions. This removes everything that is not a question from your results: answers other people have written, blog posts that got indexed, and miscellaneous content that clutters the feed. Without this filter, you will spend an hour looking at things you cannot respond to.
After filtering by Questions, change the time range to Past Week. This surfaces recent questions that do not already have twenty polished answers stacked under them. A question posted three days ago with two answers is an opportunity. A question posted three years ago with 400 answers is a wall you will not climb. Filtering by recency puts you at the front of the queue.
These two filters, sort by Questions, filter by Past Week, are the entire setup process that the viral video omits. They are the difference between finding real opportunities and burning time on a strategy that produces nothing. The original creator shows a basic Quora search and moves on. That is the mistake.
One more thing the original video gets wrong: it tells you to find questions but does not specify how to evaluate which ones are worth answering. A question with three followers and no engagement history is a dead end. A question with active upvotes, recent comments, or a high follower count is a live thread where your answer will actually be seen. That distinction matters and the viral video does not make it.
What to Link to Instead of an Affiliate URL
The reason direct affiliate links get removed is that Quora reads them as spam. The solution is not to hide the link, shorten it, or use a redirect. The solution is to stop treating the affiliate link as your first destination and start treating your email list as the first destination.
Send Quora visitors to one of three places: a YouTube channel, a blog post, or a landing page. A landing page is a single-page site whose only job is to collect a visitor’s name and email address in exchange for something useful, a free guide, a checklist, a short video. You are not trying to sell anything on this page. You are building a list. The affiliate offers come later, through email follow-up.
This structure is not just about avoiding bans. It is about building a business instead of running a traffic trick. When someone joins your email list, you own that relationship. You can follow up over days, weeks, and months with relevant content and well-placed affiliate offers. When you send someone directly to an affiliate product page, that transaction is a one-shot event. Either they buy or they don’t, and you never hear from them again.
For the landing page itself, system.io is a free option that handles both the page and the email sequence. If you want more functionality, GetResponse and AWeber are both solid platforms used by affiliate marketers at every level. The specific tool matters less than the principle: collect the email, build the relationship, promote the affiliate offer from inside the relationship rather than from a cold link in a Quora answer.
The structure of a Quora answer should follow this pattern: open with a genuinely useful response that addresses the question directly. Within the first two or three visible lines, before the answer gets cut off by the “more” button, include a soft callout. Something like: “I put together a free weight loss guide if you want to go deeper on this, link in my profile.” That click goes to your landing page. Not to a ClickBank offer. The platform tolerates the first approach. It removes the second in eight minutes.
How to Use Ahrefs to Find Quora Questions That Rank on Google
This is the advanced layer of the strategy, and it is where long-term, compounding traffic potential actually lives. Quora is a high-authority domain. Individual Quora answers regularly rank on the first page of Google for keywords that millions of people search every month. If your answer is the one that ranks, you receive search traffic to your Quora page and from there to your landing page, indefinitely, without additional work.
To find these opportunities, open Ahrefs and go to Site Explorer. Enter quora.com. Click on the Keywords section, this shows every keyword that Quora currently ranks for in Google. Set the Position filter to five or less. This narrows your results to only the keywords where a Quora page appears in the top five positions on Google’s search results page.
From there, use the keyword filter to narrow by your niche. Typing “weight loss” into the filter surfaces queries like “20 pound weight loss face” and “72 hour fast weight loss results”, real keywords where real Quora pages rank in positions one through five on Google. If you can write an answer on one of those question threads, you inherit a share of that search traffic.