Quora and Medium Collaboration
How to Get Started with Quora and Amplify Your Medium Stories
Use Quora Spaces to create visibility for your Medium Stories
We use several innovative tools and processes to amplify the stories of our writers on ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated. Our aim is to support our writers by giving more visibility to their content.
One of the important tools we use is Quora Spaces.
Both ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated have Quora Spaces.
These Quora Spaces allow our writers to share their Medium articles easily and reach a broader audience.
In this post, I want to guide you to get started with Quora and Quora Spaces.
Let’s first understand what Quora and Quora Spaces are.
What is Quora?
Quora is a web platform based on questions and answers. The platform holds millions of questions and has a high domain and content authority with Google and other search engines. It was established in 2009 and since then gained substantial recognition globally.
Even though questions and answers can be very useful to increase our followers, I want to focus on Quora Spaces, which are more relevant to what we want to achieve as Medium writers.
Quora Space
Quora has an innovative extension to questions and answers. The extension is called Quora Spaces. This feature allows users to add links, write articles, and share their experiences in an interactive way.
I found some articles comparing Quora with Medium, but I disagreed with the approach because, to me, it is like comparing apple and orange. These two platforms have different functions, philosophies, and audiences.
In this post, my focus is using Quora Spaces to extend Medium’s capability especially to use it for amplifying stories of writers.
How to get started with Quora
The first step is to create a Quora account.
How to create a Quora Account
Enter the Quora link to your web browser.
The link is: https://www.quora.com/
You have two authentication options: Google and Facebook.
In this example, I choose Facebook.
You need to log in using your Facebook account, as shown in the attached screen capture.
You will receive the following confirmation.
Click on the continue as a button (Blue button).
Your account will be created.
Now, your account is ready.
On the top right end of the bar, click on your photo.
On the browser link bar you see your account link as shown in the following screen capture.
Now that we created our account, let’s learn how to use Quora spaces to post our Medium story links.
How to use Quora Spaces
To help the writers of ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated, I created two Quora Spaces.
ILLUMINATION Quora Space
Link for ILLUMINATION Quora Space
https://www.quora.com/q/illuminationonmedium
As ILLUMINATION Quora Space has already reached a certain number of followers, Quora has granted us a domain name “illuminatoinonmedium”
Besides, as our Space has a reasonable engagement rate, Quora also awarded us for adding our logo to the Quora Space.
ILLUMINATION-Curated Quora Space
Link for ILLUMINATION-Curated Quora Space
https://www.quora.com/q/ygkwsfjvuxgkyzvw
As the ILLUMINATION-Curated Quora Space is relatively new, we don’t have a domain name and logo privileges yet. However, considering the excellent engagement rate, we will obtain these privileges shortly.
How to link Medium Stories to Quora Spaces
For this exercise, we will add a Medium story to ILLUMINATION-Curated.
By the way, you can not only add your story links but also add story links of other writers. As long as it is a valid link, Quora allows the link to be inserted as a post.
Step 1
Click on the link for ILLUMINATION-Curated Quora Space
https://www.quora.com/q/ygkwsfjvuxgkyzvw
Step 2
Click on the “Say something…” button as circled below.
You will see a text window as shown in the following screen capture.
Step 3
Copy the story link from your Medium browser.
In this example, I copy one of my stories as shown below.
https://readmedium.com/10-bio-hacks-changed-my-life-859866e8ccb
When I copy the link, it will automatically embed the story to the text window as show in the below screen capture.
Step 4
Click on the Post button as shown in the above screen capture.
Once we click on the post our story is posted to the Quora Space of ILLUMINATION-Curated.
As you can see from the below screen capture, your story name, photo, and Medium link are embedded to the post.
The post is ready on the Space.
This story can now be accessed by my followers.
They can Upvote it if the readers enjoy reading it.
The Upvote feature of Quora can be resembled the claps feature of Medium, showing appreciation for the post.
The upvoted posts go top of the Space.
The more Upvotes your story gets, the better visibility it gets from the Quora readers. The story can also get a higher chance of indexing by search engines.
Readers can also leave comments.
The ability to comment is an excellent feature to engage and collaborate with other Quora members.
Meaningful engagement is a critical success factor in social media platforms.
Extending Quora to Pinterest
You can also pin the Quora posts to a Pinterest board.
I will provide Pinterest in another post as both ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated have automatically fed Pinterest boards via Medium’s RSS system.
Here is a quick snapshot from our Pinterest dashboard.
We get great views from Pinterest.
Here are the recent impressions of our pins.
Moreover, you can tweet your Quora posts and share them on Facebook pages to reap more benefits.
Conclusions
In this post, I provided a step-by-step guide to creating a Quora account and sharing your Medium articles in Quora Spaces.
Quora is a large platform with millions of members.
Quora Spaces can provide an excellent opportunity for Medium writers. We can create visibility for our stories and gain new followers.
Our Quora posts can also bring new members to Medium.
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By adding our stories to Spaces, we also contribute to Quora. Medium stories can enrich Quora content.
It is a win-win case for Quora and Medium. Sharing our stories is an excellent collaboration, not a competition between two superior platforms with high domain authority.
Quora and Medium are two complementary platforms. They are like apples and oranges, offering different nutrition and taste.
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