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| 3 Ways Quora Can Improve Your Blogging in 2014 [Guest Post] Posted: 20 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST This is a guest post from Dustin Christensen. Could Quora, a Q&A site, help you build a more popular blog? According to Quora's CEO and founder, Adam D'Angelo, their mission to "share and grow the world's knowledge." This is something they do by combining the informational aspect of Wikipedia with social media capabilities like upvoting and easy cross-platform sharing. But the site also serves another function, particularly for bloggers: it's a goldmine of content opportunities. Covering questions from the highly personal to the broad and practical, it's the ideal platform to find new content ideas, get in touch with subject experts and expand your own blogging presence. Sites that now post content originally found on Quora include huge ones like Newsweek, Slate, Forbes and the Huffington Post. But however big or small your site is, you can use these three Quora tips improve your blogging strategy today: #1: Find Popular Topics in Your NicheAlthough keyword research is an important part of your blogging strategy, it's not the only way to come up with ideas – you can take a look at topics too. For instance, on Quora, the topic "blogging" has nearly 50,000 followers, and the topic "Blogs" has more than 73,000. With this much engagement, there's bound to be ideas that you've yet to cover on your own blog. A good way to find popular post ideas is to view the Top Stories from a Quora topic. In this example, the Top Stories includes ideas like:
Chances are, you'll come across topics and areas of interest that you haven't considered, and with enough research, you're likely to find enough potential ideas to fill your editorial calendar. Tip: The best questions to base your content on are often those with the most answers or followers, or those that have been answered by well-known experts. Essentially, you're looking for the topics with the most engagement. #2: Discover Long-Tail Content OpportunitiesDon't stop there – you can dig even deeper to find additional long-tail content ideas. Consider this Quora question: What are the best pieces of golf writing? You could get several potential posts from this question by referencing books, magazine articles, how-to tutorials, blog posts, news stories and other pieces of writing. To start, you could blog about the top 10 golf books ever written. Go to Amazon, look through the bestsellers in the sports section and find 10 books that are selling well. Write a blurb on each, maybe quote parts of a review and if you're really diligent, read the book yourself to add your own take on it. You could just as easily do a "best magazine articles on golf" and do the same thing, finding popular articles from golf and sports magazines and writing a compilation post. There's a book collection called The Best American Series that puts out "best of" books every year, and there's one called Best American Sports Writing. With these types of blog posts, you're simply mimicking this format: presenting the best of the best, with your own spin and value so that you're adding something unique as well. And that's just the beginning. If you really want to go further, you can expand with ideas like:
Tip: In addition to Quora, use your keyword tool of choice and even social media search tools to see what else people are saying about your topics and long-tail ideas. #3: Find Experts in Your Area of InterestOne of the most appealing aspects of Quora is the high-profile users that answer questions on the site (including Mark Cuban, Ashton Kutcher, Stephen Fry, Steve Case and many more). For bloggers, this represents an amazing opportunity to get in touch with experts on a platform they're interested in. Quora allows you to follow and message other people within the site itself, but more importantly, you can also find these people on other social media platforms. And chances are, if they are willing to respond to questions on Quora, they'll be accessible in some form, whether it's Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, email or their own blog. This tactic is great when you're writing specific, in-depth articles that require unique and expert insight. But it's also effective for posts that require the opinions of many people at once. Take this question for example: What is the single best piece of SEO advice? There are more than 180 answers, from SEO experts like Rand Fishkin, of Moz, and Matt McGee of MarketingLand.com. This is the perfect place to compile a list of sources that you can use for the next time you write a blog post where you want input from a lot of different people, something like "25 SEO Trends to Watch in 2014." You can contact experts, let them know that you found their Quora answers helpful and ask if they'd be interested in commenting on a similar topic for your blog. Not only will you be creating more valuable blog posts for your readers, but you'll also be building your personal network and improving your connections within your niche. Putting Quora to Good UseQuora has proven itself to be the rising star of the Q&A niche. It presents to its audience practical questions and insightful answers. With some time, research and brainstorming, you can turn Quora into a rich source of original and valuable blogging opportunities. And why not take it further by participating yourself? Quora can help define you as an expert in your own right, and prove to be a valuable source of traffic to your blog.
Bio: Dustin Christensen is the digital marketing manager at JacksonWhite Law in Arizona. He blogs about online marketing at BrandRise and considers himself to be, among other things, a "dog person."
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| Do You Know The Secret Success Word? Posted: 19 Feb 2014 11:54 AM PST One of my favorite personal development and success authors is Earl Nightingale. He became quite famous with an audio segment called The Strangest Secret in the World, and he published several other books and audio programs. Yesterday I started reading his book title “Lead The Field.” It contains 12 traits and factors that successful people have. The first chapter is about a secret success word. Can you guess what is it? The secret success word is this one: attitude. If you are not familiar with the term, here’s Google’s definition for the word: “a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person’s behavior.” Successful people have a positive attitude towards life and their work. For instance, they don’t waste time with intrigues and petty talk, they don’t get discouraged by obstacles, they know that failing is part of the game, they don’t have a problem admitting they are wrong if it happens, so on and so forth. Earl call it a secret because many people would not include attitude in a list of traits or factors that lead to success. Instead they would include things such as intelligence, knowledge, contacts and so on. And here’s why this word is so important: despite not being included in such lists, in my opinion (and in Earl’s too) attitude is more important than all other factors and traits. That’s because someone with the right attitude will be able to compensate for a lack of intelligence, lack of knowledge, lack of contacts and so on. In fact if you think about it most people in strategic and important positions have very positive attitudes. Think about politicians like Barack Obama or Hilary Clinton. CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page. Television personalities like Oprah Winfrey or Jay Leno. Bottom line: if you want to be more successful and want to work on something, work on your attitude! Wanna learn how to make more money with your website? Check the Online Profits training program! |
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