12. 12Confidential
• The mission is to grow and share the world’s
knowledge
• Q&A platform founded in 2009 by Facebook alumni
• 200 million users concentrated in metropolitan areas
• Used evenly across desktop and mobile
• Questions organized by topics
• Use common language rather than keywords
• Very detailed questions and answers
20. 20Confidential
• Keyword based
• Audience targeting
• CPC
• Targeted by platform & location
Your business name: “Promoted by [company name]” in the above
example.
Headline text up to 65 characters in length. Text must be a
statement, not a question.
Description text up to 105 characters in length. Text must be a
statement, not question.
Desired call to action, Quora offers options such as Learn More,
Sign Up and more.
Bonus: Advertise on
Quora
21. 21Confidential
• Founded in 2005
• Calls itself the front page of the internet
• Users post external links, self submissions (IAMA, Jokes,
questions, stories), videos and images
• 524 million monthly visitors
• Not organized, really a collection of subreddits each moderated
by volunteers
• “Karma” is what drives where submissions and comments show
up in the hierarchy
26. 26Confidential
• Build Karma by posting interesting content – extensively research what becomes popular in
each subreddit
• Don’t focus on the front page, just the subreddit. The top few positions will make it in to the
front page for some users
• Participate in the community with thoughtful comments
• If you get banned from one subreddit, you can still participate in others
•Become a redditor
ADD VALUE
29. “Surveys can help discover
interesting facts
“Open ended questions will give you
ideas to explore
“Cross-tab into results to combine
different ideas
Use Surveys
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We don’t want to write just any content, we want good unique contetn
So here are you basics, you can site search to find things that people are already looking for
You can also use Ahreafs to see what your competitors are doing that you are not
You can straithgt up put your competitors in here to see what they are doing and then use the skyscraper method
But lets go back to basics, lets use the wisdom of the crowds to teach us what people really want
So first you can try this tool called answer the pubic. Put your primary keyword ijn here and you can see all the questions people are looking for
You can also look at suggested terms. Youtube has a wealth of knowledge since if people are making a video out of it, you can definitely get an article out oit
I also love this tool called keywordtool.io whih can scrape suggested terms for Google, Bing etc in every language
Today we are going to deep dive into a number of places you might not have thought of using to give you ideas on where to write
Quora blah blah
Quora has content litterally on everything
And once you dig in there is even more
You can see put the topics pages into Ahrefs and you can see the kinds of keyowrds thats ranking and this might give you an idea on what to write
You can also search to find more toics and blah
Once you have a topic you want to drill into, you can click to find questions
As an aside you can also consider these people influencers for outreach
Fill out your topics as much as possible
Business profiles
Another way you an use quora is to pay for it
Reddit is my favorite social network. At my first pubcon, I learned how to become a power digger and 30 days later I did it Once I got booted from Digg I joined Reddit and have been a fan ever since
Trump, conservatives
There are reddits for everything and you can either find a reddit bysearchig on reddit or googling
As you think about contnet to write, sidebars are a wealth of knowledge
You can also find popular topics within your keyword
But its not just questions you should focus on but comments. I don’t who writes them but some are hilarious, insightful, and long
You shouldn’t use Reddit as a taker, but you can actually join the commnty
You can also benefit from Reddit by advertisig
Very cheap and targeted
Pretedn you are promoting on Reddit
Now to my favorite topic, survyes
Talk about getting salary info
RAS
SM isn’t the only way to get survey data by any means
Everyojne knows how to use G trends
Pinterest is a wealth of UGC and categories. Look at popular pins and topics
Wikipedia, look at primary target and look at each cross link as a topic all on its own
Lok at the most shared contnet on a website and see if there’s somehting you can do better. Here’s ehow
Yahoo answers. Some of you are too young to remember others are not and can’t believe it still exists
Topics for everything
Also look at competitors to see what comp is writing and the keywords they are targeting