Alston’s first two affiliate commissions totaled $130 from Bluehost. He earned them by answering questions on Quora. The problem was that on his very first attempt, he nearly got himself banned from the affiliate network for linking directly to an offer inside a Quora answer. He learned fast. He figured out the right way to do it, cleaned up his approach, and the commissions kept coming.
In this post you get the exact two-step system he walks through in the video above: how to find high-traffic Quora questions and answer them without writing a single word yourself, and how to build a Quora Space that grows an engaged audience you can monetize with affiliate links inside the platform. Both methods run on roughly 20 minutes per day.
What You’ll Walk Out With
- A step-by-step process for finding fresh, unanswered Quora questions in any niche
- How to use an AI writing tool to generate quality answers without typing a word yourself
- The CTA rule that keeps you from getting banned while still driving affiliate traffic
- A full breakdown of Quora Spaces and why they have looser affiliate link rules than regular answers
- How to schedule AI-generated questions to your Space so it runs almost on autopilot
- Real numbers from Alston’s own Quora results, including the near-ban that reshaped how he does this
- What to do if you want to skip Quora and go straight to finding your first profitable idea at finder.platformproof.com
Why Quora Is a Legitimate Traffic Source
Most people treat Quora as a place to read answers. Affiliate marketers who know what they are doing treat it as a search engine with a built-in distribution system. When a question on Quora gets enough upvotes, Quora pushes that answer out to everyone who has ever expressed interest in that topic through its digest emails and notifications. One well-placed answer can reach thousands of people without you spending a dollar on ads.
The other thing most people overlook: Quora answers rank on Google. If someone searches “what are the important parts of a sales funnel” and a strong Quora thread appears near the top of search results, your answer inside that thread collects organic search traffic on top of Quora’s own distribution. That stacks. Two traffic sources from one piece of content.
The catch is that Quora has rules. Direct affiliate links in regular answers will get you flagged and potentially banned. Alston found this out the hard way when he nearly lost his affiliate account over his very first commissions. The right approach requires one extra step, which Method 1 below covers in detail.
The AI Tool That Does the Writing
At the time Alston recorded this video, the tool he used was called Conversion.ai, which operated under the brand name Jarvis. That product is now known as Jasper.ai. The core function is identical: you give it a topic, a question, and some context, and it generates full paragraphs of written content on demand. It carries a monthly subscription cost, but it eliminates the part of this method that stops most people cold, which is sitting down to write several hundred words on a topic five times a day.
Jasper has a dedicated Quora Answer template. You paste in the question, add two or three keywords or short phrases about what you want covered, hit generate, and it produces a ready-to-use answer. You read it, edit anything that is off, and post it. The process from question to posted answer takes about four minutes once you have the workflow set up. At five questions per day that adds up to roughly 20 minutes of work total.
The alternative Alston demonstrates is the Long Form Assistant. This is the more powerful option and the one he actually recommends. Instead of using the Quora template, you paste the question into a blog post prompt, generate a few intro paragraphs and pick the best one, open the editor, run the blog post outline tool for your topic, and then let the AI compose in long-paragraph mode. It continues writing section by section while you guide it and keep it on track. The end result is a 400-to-600-word answer that looks like it took serious research. More depth means more upvotes, which means more distribution from Quora’s algorithm.
Method 1: Answer Quora Questions With AI Content
Step 1: Find Questions That Are Still Active
Go to Quora.com and create a free account if you do not have one. In the search bar, type a topic you are building a niche around. It can be something broad like affiliate marketing, or something specific like sales funnels, web hosting, or basket weaving. After typing the topic, look at the search results page and click the Questions tab. That filters results to show only questions people have asked about that topic, not articles or general posts.
Once you are in the Questions view, set the time filter to “Last Week” or “Last Day.” You want recent questions. The reason is timing: when someone posts a question, they get notified of every new answer that comes in. If a question is three years old with fourteen answers already, adding a fifteenth is unlikely to move the needle. A question posted yesterday with no answers is a far better target. Your answer is the first one the asker sees, you get the notification bump, and if it is good you pick up upvotes quickly.
Step 2: Generate the Answer With AI
Copy the full text of the question. Open Jasper.ai and go to the Quora Answer template. Paste in the question, then add a few relevant keywords or short phrases in the supporting fields. For a question like “What are the important parts of a sales funnel?” you might add “landing page, email follow-up, autoresponder” as context. Hit Generate.
Read what comes out. AI writing tools are not flawless. They can drift into generalities, repeat phrases, or start heading in the wrong direction mid-paragraph. Alston notes in the video that Jarvis “gets stuck” occasionally and starts repeating text, and when that happens you just scroll back, delete the repeated section, and hit compose again. It gets back on track. If an answer looks good with minor edits, clean it up and move on. If it is significantly off, regenerate or add more direction to the context field before trying again.
If you want a longer, more detailed answer that is more likely to get upvoted, skip the Quora template and go straight to the Long Form Assistant. Start a new blog post document, paste the question as the prompt, generate a title and a few intro paragraphs, pick the best intro, open the editor, run the blog post outline template for your topic, and then switch the content length setting to “long.” Hit compose and let the AI write section by section. Alston recommends changing each section heading to an H2 subheading inside the editor as the AI generates them, which both makes the final answer more readable and keeps the AI better oriented on the topic. End result: a 400-to-600-word piece that answers the question in real depth.
Step 3: Add the CTA the Right Way
This is where most beginners blow it. You cannot paste an affiliate link directly into a Quora answer. Quora’s system flags it, and if you do it repeatedly your account will be banned. Alston discovered this with his very first commissions. He was earning money from Bluehost referrals by answering hosting-related questions on Quora. His first commission was $60, and his first two combined came to $130. But the method he was using at that point included a direct affiliate link in the answer itself, which nearly got him removed from the Bluehost affiliate program entirely.
The fix is a bridge. Instead of linking directly to the affiliate offer, you link to something you control that then leads to the offer. That can be a blog post you have written on the topic, a landing page with an email opt-in, or a YouTube video that walks through the product. The Quora answer drives the click, the bridge page pre-sells the offer, and the reader lands on the affiliate page already warmed up. Add one clear call to action near the top of your answer so people see it even if they skim. Something like “Click here to learn more about building your first sales funnel” with a link to your blog post or landing page is enough.
Aim for five questions answered per day using this process. At that pace you are building a meaningful library of Quora content in 20 minutes per session. Over 30 days that is 150 answers pointing back to your bridge pages. Not all of them will get traction, but the ones that do keep sending traffic long after you posted them, because upvoted Quora answers continue getting distributed to interested readers for months.
Method 2: Build a Quora Space
What a Quora Space Is
A Quora Space is a dedicated community you create and own inside Quora, similar in concept to a Facebook Group or a subreddit on Reddit. You set up a Space around a topic, invite people to follow it, and post content inside it on a regular basis. Space content can include questions, articles, links, and discussions. Followers see your posts in their Quora feed, and the platform’s algorithm pushes active Spaces toward new people who have expressed interest in related topics.
The critical difference between a Space and a regular Quora answer is the affiliate link policy. In regular answers, direct affiliate links are prohibited. In your own Space, you can include them in your posts. This makes Spaces a far more direct monetization channel. You are building an audience around a niche topic, those followers are already interested in what you are covering, and when you recommend a product you can link straight to it without needing a separate bridge page at all.
At the time Alston recorded the video, he had 711 followers in his affiliate marketing-focused Quora Space. That is not a massive audience by any measure, but it is an engaged group that sees his content every time he posts. Even a few hundred followers can generate consistent affiliate clicks when the posts are useful and the recommendations are relevant to real problems those followers are trying to solve.
How to Fill Your Space With Engaging Content
The ongoing challenge with running any community is generating enough content to keep it active without burning out. If you are trying to do this across multiple platforms at once, content creation becomes a real bottleneck. This is where AI writing tools step in again. Jasper has an “Engaging Questions” template that takes a topic and a target audience and generates a list of questions designed to start conversations.
In the video, Alston demonstrates using this template with the topic “sales funnel” and the audience set to “small businesses.” The tool generated questions like “What are the different stages of a sales funnel?” and “What responsibilities do you have as a small business owner when it comes to online marketing strategy?” He then adapts those questions slightly to fit the actual niche of his Space. Since his Space is about affiliate marketing rather than general small business, “small business owner” becomes “affiliate marketer” and so on. A few quick edits and the questions are ready to post.