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How to Use Quora - Beginner's Guide
Hey everyone. In today's video, I want to give you an introduction to [email protected] It's a platform for questions and answers, and it's evolved to be a lot more. So I'm going to show you all of it in this quick video, and then I'll make follow-up videos showing you how to use Cora for marketing and SEO is a powerful tool for business owners.
Now, the chorus started back in 2009, but at the time that I'm recording this video, It has over 550 million monthly active visitors. A lot of people probably have seen Cora before without even realizing it. A lot of Google searches lead to Cora because what Cora is, is a question and answer platform and it's all user-generated.
So, people, anybody could ask a question and anybody else to has to answer. Good. Jump in and answer that question, right? So when you look up a question on Google, for example, the core result is probably right on top there and in recent years, it's really evolved to be more than just that question and answer search engine.
So high, like to think of it is a search engine blended with social media and also a fantastic marketing tool for businesses too and just like any other social media that you may have used, like Facebook, you could create yourself a profile, you could follow other people on Cora, just like any social media platform.
You could actually create what are called spaces, a collection of content, or create your own spaces. I'm going to show you all this in this video and Cora is a completely free platform, but he makes money by running as just like all other social media and free content websites and if you want to learn more about it, you could actually go to quora.com/about, and they do have a nice description here of what they do and why they exist.
Well, let's go ahead and start from the beginning. When you land on cora.com simply create a profile here just by using email and password or another platform like Facebook and Google, and then on the next page, pick five or so different interests, and then you will land on quora.com on the homepage.
So let me kind of show you around here and then I'll show you the next steps of the process. The first thing you'll see here. On the top is the homepage. Now, if you've ever used Facebook, this is like the Facebook feed, right? So you could kind of scroll through and see a bunch of different posts here.
Now, again, this has evolved to be more like a social media platform that used to not be this way. So your homepage will come back to, then you have the following. This is when you follow other profiles, you could see little follow option next to each person, other people could follow you too. Then you could just look for answers.
This tab shows you just answer here related to topics that you follow spaces, all explain in a second and notifications that are at the top of the page. But if you go to the left side, these are the type of topics that I followed when I first created my profile. So these are called spaces and they're basically a collection of the same type of topic, right? So Mac computer is a collection, so all answers and questions related to, so that will be under that in a very nice and organized way and you could basically create your own spaces here for your own collection of things. So that's just a brief overview of the homepage and remember, this is a search engine.
So instead of using Google, a lot of times you could just come up here and search whatever question you have up here and then look for answers, and right here is how you would ask your own question, but let's go through setting up our account. Step-by-step the first thing you want to do is follow five more spaces, right? So I followed a bunch when I started. So you could go to discover spaces here and just follow a bunch of different spaces that are created like these. So I'm going to go ahead and follow tech, insider tech lounge, right? I'm just following it. You could see how many followers each of these have.
Okay, so I followed five here. Let me go back here and you could see, I crossed this off. So you basically want to go through this then what you want to do is you want to upvote good pieces of content. So any questions, let me just go to. The tech insider here and here, each piece of content, you could actually give it an upvote.
So if you like this piece of content, you could give it a four and this is sort of like how Reddit works. The more upvotes, the higher, it will move on the homepage here. You could give it a downvote and you could also share it or leave a comment. So everything has that. Including this option for sharing out on different platforms and for reporting and bookmarking.
So this is probably familiar to you if you use Reddit before or even Facebook here. So you basically want to go through and kind of set this up. Then you could ask a question, right? So asking a question is pretty straightforward. You would just type out your question here and then people. That has the answer.
We'll answer you. So let's see how much money Corum makes. Let's figure that out. Now, if the question already exists, you could see that over here, you will give you the results. If it doesn't exist, it won't show up, right and you could see people have asked that, but it doesn't have any answers yet. So you could go ahead and ask that question here and it's going to give you some tips, but look up here. It says, adds a question. You could also share a link here too and with links, you basically could share a resource to your followers. I don't have any followers yet on this account, so I don't want to do that, but this is going to really come in handy for businesses and for marketing, which I'll cover in an upcoming video.
So ask a question. How much money did Cora make, ask a question and it will be posted, right? Your suggestion. If you found similar questions with answers, you could find them here. So I could go over there and not posted, but let me go ahead and post it here and I could select the different topics this might going to, and then press done.
So now I have a question. So you could ask her a question up here, or you could just click over here to ask your question over here and you could also share the link over here, again for marketing purposes and then you could see when people answer you, that will show up. But if you go up here now you have the following tab.
Since I follow the other people, I'll just see the people I'm following. So a little bit different than the homepage and then answers when I get answers, I'll see them over here as well, and then let's go to spaces. Basically, four spaces are going to show me all the different profiles that are following year, and I could discover more and to create your own, you basically click here and that type your space and give it a description and created and then you could add content to it there now. The next thing I want to show you is kind of finishing up your profile. So press this icon, go to your profile page here and what you want to do here is you want to really type out really good credentials here because eventually, we want to answer questions too.
We don't want to just ask questions so you could go ahead and add your credentials here like this, and add a profile picture and whatever you want. This could be like LinkedIn. For example, if you're using this for marketing, make sure your employment, your education, your location, everything is set up over here as well and then go ahead and create spaces here. And then finally, you could go ahead and answer a question now. This is going to show you questions that are for you based on your interests. So I am pretty good with iOS. I'm good with social media. I mean, I have over a thousand videos on YouTube covering different topics.
So I could use those to answer a lot of these questions that are relevant to my interests. That's why it's important that you pick topics that you know something about. So this is gonna show you relevant questions and people could request answers specifically from you too. So you'll see those here as well and that's your crash course on using Cora if you've never used a platform before and remember if you're a business owner, Cora is a must. I have someone actually dedicated to content for Cora because what Cora ends up doing for business owners is it gives them a powerful way to generate leads and for SEO, for search engine optimization, it gives you a powerful backlink.
If you actually give the correct answer on core out here, and he ends up generating leads and BankLink power through SEO. So I'm going to cover that in the following video. This was just a beginner's guide to Cora and I hope you found it useful, please give it a thumbs up. I'll see you next time.