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Hello, YouTube. This is Alston with another video. And today we are going to talk a little bit about affiliate marketing with Quora. So I’m going to spend a few minutes talking about what is Quora, how to market or affiliate market with Quora. Should you even try it? Is it worth it? Is it worth your time and effort?
Are there any better options out there? And so on. But before we get going, make sure that you like, and subscribe. If this video or any of the other videos that are on my channel or playlist are helpful to you, make sure that you like and subscribe so I can continue to bring you great content.
Also, if there are videos that you’d like to see, drop me a line in. This in the comment box below or any of my other videos, and I will definitely make those videos. All right. So what is Quora? Quora is a question and answer slash social media slash forum site where users can go and ask questions and they can answer questions that are created by anyone around the world.
So these questions can be on a variety of topics. So if you look on the left hand side Here are some of the different Topics that you could ask questions on music, affiliate marketing, psychology, Wisconsin, television, economics, or you could actually type in, we’ll say web hosting, and then you can look at the topic.
You can look at web hosting providers. So I’m just going to click on web hosting here as an example. And then there are some questions. What are the cheapest web hosting services? Now the awesome thing about Quora is just about anybody can answer questions. Anyone can ask questions, but that’s also a downside as well.
Because there’s so many questions and answers out there you can get caught up in, in some wrong information. It’s very possible. So let’s click on answer. And you can see what is the best personal website host it was that’s the question it was already answered by 14 people it was Posted 14 hours ago.
So what I could do if I have an opinion I can just simply click on answer And then I can put in my answer. What I would do, what I’d recommend is actually clicking on the question first and then you can go through and read the re the responses. Now how can Quora help you with affiliate marketing?
One thing that I would suggest is whenever you see a link in Quora, it’s probably an affiliate link of some sort. Someone has gone through and answered these questions and placed an affiliate link with the hopes that you’ll buy that product or at least click on the link. And so that’s something that you could do too, but there is a right and a wrong way to do it.
And I’ll show you both ways and I’ll show you why they’re, why one’s correct and one’s incorrect. So let’s go back and ask a question about let’s say affiliate marketing. All right. So that’s the topic here. I’m going to click on that. And so you can read the different articles that are already up. You can go to answer a couple questions.
One thing that I do not see on here, there was a way that you could sort by newest first. And that’s also what I would definitely recommend is I would sort by the newest first so that if you’re planning on doing this really the person that, that post first usually gets the most views or at least gets the readers.
The person that posted the question you get a whole in front of them faster So what I did was I went up and I clicked on all questions and this popped up so here I’m gonna read the question. Is it possible to make money sending bulk permission email for affiliate marketing? You can downvote it you can Post this or share this to Facebook, share it to Twitter.
You could actually afford this or share it on, click on more. You can answer anonymously. You can follow privately. There’s a ton of options that you can do. What we would want to do is we’d want to click this link. And as I mentioned just a few minutes ago, there’s a right way and a wrong way to answer questions with affiliate marketing on Quora.
What a lot of people do. And this is the wrong way. Is they’ll go in, they’ll click answer. Whoops, I’m sorry. They’ll click answer the question. And they’ll say, this is my answer. Maybe they provide one or two sentences. And then they’ll put in affiliate link. Affiliate link. Now the problem with that. Is quora is constantly going through the questions and answers.
They’re removing questions that are Inappropriate, you know if they have nudity if they’re swearing they’re attempting to remove them The other side of that with answers is they will remove any answer that has an end they’ll remove most answers that have an affiliate link embedded So if you provide an amazon link Most likely you’re going to get an email or a notification that the message was moved, removed.
I know this for a fact because it’s actually happened to me a couple times. It’s actually a strange thing. So what happens is,
posted the question must have gone in Reddit and decided Bluehost was of good value and they purchased through my affiliate link. I would say maybe a half a day later. I got a notification that my answer was removed So I got paid or I made the commission for promoting Bluehost but my answer ultimately got removed at the end of the day.
I it worked so You know, you can’t get too mad about it, but you also can earn strikes and potentially be banned. You want to have as many answers or you want to have your answers showing up on Quora because people can follow you. The more you answers you have out there the more opportunity for people it is to see you be gained visibility and so on.
So you want to make sure that you do not do that. Don’t just put your affiliate links blindly into Websites into Quora. A better way to do it is to add some valuable information longer post obviously I would say probably Seven eight nine hundred words, maybe a thousand words and then provide a link to maybe your website a link to maybe an opt in page, something along those lines so that Quora doesn’t see an affiliate link.
That serves a couple purposes. You’re providing helpful content, which will potentially be up, upvoted. So more people will be able to see it. The next time the question is answered people will likely click on your link because you provide a good information. It won’t be flagged by Quora and you could potentially make a commission down the line.
That’s also possibly a good way to collect emails. So that’s all things to consider. That’s the correct way to do it. Make sure that you provide helpful content. I would say between, let’s say 500 and a thousand words, anything more than that becomes maybe excessive. And then provide your link. For my website, alstongodbolt.com
I provide a link there like alstongodbolt. com slash recommended products. And then readers can go there and they can look at the products and click on the link. So that’s a little bit better way to do it. Now, is Quora worth it? That. I would say really depends. It depends on how you’re starting off.
If you have little money, you have no money to invest, you have a lot of time on your hands. Quora can be a valuable resource for getting started. Like I mentioned about a year ago, about a year ago, I had done this method. I’d gotten a couple affiliate commissions. The issue is that you wind up spending a lot of time on Quora.
Because you have to constantly be one of the first three or four to respond. Especially when it’s something like web hosting, you want to make sure that you get your affiliate link out there before everyone else does. And you also want to make sure that you get out there before the moderators delete it.
So that’s the issue. And I found that of all the posts that I have made on Quora, yes, I do get a lot of views of my posts or my response responses, but that doesn’t necessarily convert to commission sales or high traffic to my website. The nice thing about Quora is it keeps track of the number of.
Times your responses or answers have been viewed, but that doesn’t necessarily correlate to traffic to your website. Now, if you’re ultimately planning on launching a blog or maybe YouTube or something like that, Quorum may be something that you do on a lunch break or something that you do on your 15 minute break.
If you get one, you don’t want to invest so much time in the core that you’re losing time investing in something that might be a little bit more sustainable. The other issue with core two is there are so many questions that come up, it’s easy for the same question to be asked multiple times in basically your question or your answer gets lost in the sea of questions and answers, because you have to figure there are so many people asking the same question or similar questions over and over again.
that your answer can get lost. So that’s something to consider. Quora I believe is worth it if you are just starting out or you’re looking for a way to, to gain some visibility or some traction. I would last month I actually had 60 visitors from Quora come to my website. I would probably say I made maybe 10 or 15 posts last month, but I have made more posts prior in previous months.
It’s like passive income where you do the work up front. It may trickle in later. So Quora can be good from that perspective. So now let’s talk about. Options. Are there better options out there? Personally I do feel like there are better options than relying on Quora for affiliate marketing and passive income.
I would recommend possibly something like Reddit. If you don’t know what Reddit is, and I’ll bring that up here in a second. So Reddit claims to be, or calls itself the front page of the internet. This is similar to core where people social media in general where people will post questions comments and so on this is also very similar to horror where there are different subreddits or different topics that are our focus.
This is the main page. So it just focuses on what’s trending or what’s hot In your area. So if you wanted to let’s say game of thrones is pretty popular right now. I want to join a game of throne subreddit Sorry, so I type in game of thrones and up here under View more these are all the different subreddits that are available what you have to do before you can post Obviously you have to join but i’m just going to click on game of thrones here.
And these are Some of the different questions, comments people are making about this topic. This is a video of gray worm. I believe he’s singing. I can’t remember the song, but I watched earlier. He’s singing his song and, miss Sunday is dancing anyway. So people can post questions here and then you can actually go in and respond.
So someone posted this funny short video. You can go in and click comments and these are basically all of the comments in the thread. Someone will respond and you can respond to them and so on. If you are going to use this method, you have to make sure that you are providing helpful content first. And then potent, then potentially putting in affiliate links much, much later or directing them to your website.
Much, much later. These communities are more tight knit. They know each other on a first name basis. So you don’t want to just roll into a community, start posting your affiliate links. You’ll get banned. You’ll get kicked out. They’ll shame you. So you want to make sure that you follow the rules. Also each individual subreddit has different rules.
You want to make sure that you read those rules before. Just blindly posting because that’ll get you banned as well. So that’s Reddit. Pinterest is another one. Pinterest is actually an interesting one because instead of, in addition to posting content, you’re mostly. Posting pictures. Let’s see if I can get in it.
You have to be believe you have to be Registered to access this site. So this is Pinterest and you post basically images of different topics and Quora and reddit it is Sorted by topic instead of calling them communities or subreddits they’re called pins or boards. And so basically what you do is You create a board and you share a pin.
The pin is a picture that you share You can view and save other people’s pins. People can view and save your pins. You can actually embed your links into your pins This is very similar to Quora, though, that if you post your affiliate links into your pins, you’ll get banned, or they won’t even let you do it.
They won’t let you post bit. ly links, they have to be full links. So what I would recommend is just like Quora, post your website, and then redirect them to… To your affiliate link. So that’s another one. YouTube is a big one. You are on YouTube now So you understand the power of it Basically what most people do and in fact what I do if you look below I will provide affiliate links below in My videos is basically you make content on a topic or Niche and then you can place your affiliate link So if you are into technology, you can create a series of videos around the newest Technology and then place your affiliate links in the description and then people will click on it And if they purchase you get affiliate link my issue with reddit pinterest YouTube and even quora is that you don’t actually own the medium you are simply Borrowing it you’re actually borrowing it to make someone else rich or wealthy what you want to do is you want to come up with something that you own.
Personally, while I use Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and Pinterest and Reddit, since I don’t own those formats or those mediums I don’t like to spend a lot of time on there because I’m not getting paid for it. What you want to do is you want to create something in which. You own the content.
You can decide what goes on and what goes off. So you want to look at something like blogging. Starting a blog. Because that’s going to be your source. It’ll be up there as long as you decide to keep the website up. And what I recommend is if you’re looking into affiliate marketing, a longterm sustainable strategy is looking into starting your own blog.
And what I’m actually going to do is I’m going to put in an affiliate link in the description on how to start a blog. I’m actually following, it’s called income school slash project 24. And some of my other videos are about my progress with project 24. So click the affiliate link. I’m also going to provide an affiliate link with some of the products that.
I use to help me write and record these videos. Definitely check out income school project 24 so that you can get started writing a blog and you can control your own medium. But before I let you go, this is Alston. Make sure that you like and subscribe so that you can be notified. You can stay up to date with all of the videos that I’m creating.
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