Once a newbie asked me;How do you drive traffic to your site apart from social media and organic search?

And i was like mmmhhh......i use quora.

The look on his face suggested that....i was either lying...or i had said something he had never ever heard of before.

I started blogging in 2014 and have had ups & downs not to mention picking up the wrong niches later to abandon them a year down the line....What a time wastage?

So i started a tech blog Smatt Geeks Media,which most of you have heard of since the U.K blog awards and the fruits of my labours are finally seeming to pay off.

Most people don't believe quora can drive alot og traffic to their sites when properly used.


My answers on the platform have hit over 70,000 views, and I’ve been featured three times in the Quora Daily Digest that goes out to up to 2,000,000 people.



I know....i know......You work tirelessly on your content – but no one reads it.

It’s like giving a presentation to an empty room. No matter how much insight you have to share, nobody’s there to even notice.

You feel certain that if you could only get some more traffic to your blog, the content love would flow.
But even when you promote the heck out of your latest post, the following week you have to start the process all over again.

It’s really exhausting.





How do I maximize traffic from Quora to my site?

In order to do that, here are some tips.


1 to your site from your profile:



From your profile on Quora, let people know about your website and provide a link to it. Add links to your social profiles too so that people can follow you, and then you can drive traffic in long term.

2.Include your domain in your answer bioss



You can have different brief bios next to your name when you answer questions on Quora. You can’t add a link, but you can mention your domain name. A proportion will be curious and take a look.

Note such traffic won’t show in your logs as coming from Quora, as people will be visiting directly.

3.Answer questions relevant to your site on a regular basis



The more questions you answer, obviously the more visible you will be on Quora, and the more traffic you can potentially attract. Also, you will begin to pick up ‘Most Viewed Writer’ accolades for different categories, which helps give visibility to your profile and helps your answers to rank higher and get more views.

4 back to your blog from answers:


Presumably, if you’re looking to attract traffic to your site, you already have a blog that you regularly publish to. Just as you link between different blog posts on your blog, you can link back to relevant content on your blog from the answers you provide.

5.Blog on Quora:



While most people think of Quora as a Q&A site, which predominantly it is, you can also blog on Quora, gaining thousands of additional views for your content from the Quora community.


Don’t let this replace your main blog. Instead, repurpose the content on your blog, republishing it on Quora and other top content platforms like Medium.


From this additional content on Quora, as well as links back to your blog include content upgrades to encourage readers to join your list. Once on your list, you will be able to drive repeat visits, not just one.

6.Provide value in your answers:



Most people seeking to drive traffic back to their site from Quora give the bare minimum answer, and sneak in a link. This isn’t very effective, as the answer will generally sink beneath fuller answers, won’t gain as much search visibility, and will attract fewer upvotes and followers.

The answer doesn’t have to be long, but should be sufficient to answer the question.

Add images where appropriate and where that provides further value in your answer. This will also help your answer rise above others.

7.Share your answers:



By sharing your answers through your social media channels, you will boost the number of views of your answers, which will help your answers rise to the top.
Plus, because who already follow you on social media, may be more willing to upvote you, follow you on Quora, and click-through to your site from your answers, all of which builds your overall traffic levels.


#HAPPY BLOGGING#

thanks @Op for the write up.

You provided a detailed step-by-step guide to optimize Quora.this is quite insightful and I will have to take another look at my Quora profile.

I just published a research I conducted on my blog about. Traffic strategies used by bloggers and my focus was the tech nicHe.
You can check it out.see my signature for the URL.
Thanks and keep up the good work.

great Happy to read this.... am just opened my blog ... pls help.me check if it's kinda OK... bless u

Smyblueboy:
great Happy to read this.... am just opened my blog ... pls help.me check if it's kinda OK... bless u

I would advice you to go with self hosted wordpress instead of blogger so that you can optimize for seo using plugins.

but if you know some coding,then staying with blogger is also good.

styca:
thanks @Op for the write up.

You provided a detailed step-by-step guide to optimize Quora.this is quite insightful and I will have to take another look at my Quora profile.

I just published a research I conducted on my blog about. Traffic strategies used by bloggers and my focus was the tech nicHe.
You can check it out.see my signature for the URL.
Thanks and keep up the good work.

mmhh...i loved your post..
i must admit with all the statistics you've gathered there,i most definitely fall in the second group.

Mikeshiangala:


I would advice you to go with self hosted wordpress instead of blogger so that you can optimize for seo using plugins.

but if you know some coding,then staying with blogger is also good.

Pls put me through the on this ..i love blogger its easy to navigate so i want to staybwith it... But i do not known coding bro.... Ur suggestions and advise would make a brother happy.

Smyblueboy:

Pls put me through the on this ..i love blogger its easy to navigate so i want to staybwith it... But i do not known coding bro.... Ur suggestions and advise would make a brother happy.

Using blogger is not bad....
I started my blog there but later moved to wordpress because i was not that confident messing with code to boost seo factors such as h1,h2,h3....meta tags.....keywords...etc...etc

Wordpress is very easy to use more than you might have imagined....the beauty of it is setting up things using plugins without touching code.

There also other platforms such as joomla,concrete5,drupal.....just to mention a few..

what sets wordpress apart is the vast availability of incredible functions,themes & support.

Nice One bro.. Cc Lalasticlala

Mikeshiangala:



mmhh...i loved your post..
i must admit with all the statistics you've gathered there,i most definitely fall in the second group.

Thank you Mikeshiangala for the kind words.

The aim of the data is to spur us into action. And to know where we should be focusing for our traffic strategy.

Keep up your work at smattgeekemedia. And I admire your writing style.