WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:04.670 Once you have your account set up what types of questions should you be answering. 00:04.680 --> 00:09.150 It's best to answer questions related to your niche and also related to the products and services you 00:09.150 --> 00:09.720 have. 00:09.720 --> 00:14.220 Not that you're going to be promoting those products directly through your core core answer. 00:14.220 --> 00:20.440 That's not going to get a lot of up votes which is basically how answers become popular or not. 00:20.550 --> 00:26.520 You want to be the one in that number one spot but you can often direct people back to your Web site 00:26.520 --> 00:31.230 and eventually they might find your products or services it's a longtail approach. 00:31.230 --> 00:37.880 So for example when I log on I might just search for topics related to Photoshop. 00:38.010 --> 00:42.710 This is something that I have courses on and I would probably answer these questions. 00:42.900 --> 00:47.830 Here's a question that's perfect for me what is the best way to learn Adobe Photoshop. 00:47.850 --> 00:52.370 So what I'm going to do is click on this question to see what answers are there. 00:52.530 --> 00:55.950 So it already has 86 answers which is a lot. 00:55.950 --> 01:02.010 So you might try to find a question that isn't as popular and doesn't have a lot of questions because 01:02.010 --> 01:07.050 it's better to get on a question that is more recent you can see related questions over on the right 01:07.050 --> 01:13.020 hand side so I can see if there's anything newer or that I might have a better chance of getting that 01:13.020 --> 01:14.600 number one answer for. 01:14.790 --> 01:16.400 Here's a question that I found. 01:16.440 --> 01:21.020 What are the best online free resources for learning the basics of Photoshop. 01:21.030 --> 01:22.340 There is only one answer. 01:22.350 --> 01:25.450 So this is the one that I would answer. 01:25.860 --> 01:28.290 So I have content that's related to this. 01:28.290 --> 01:34.130 Let me go to my YouTube channel and find a recent video that I posted which is learn Adobe Photoshop 01:34.170 --> 01:35.430 in 30 minutes. 01:35.550 --> 01:36.690 Here you can see my answer. 01:36.690 --> 01:40.690 I quickly just say YouTube is probably the best place to learn Photoshop for free. 01:40.770 --> 01:43.290 And then I give three recommended tutorials. 01:43.290 --> 01:50.210 The trick is that I included mine as the very first link but then I added to their Photoshop to Tauriel 01:50.430 --> 01:56.680 so that it doesn't look like I'm biased in only self-promoting my own tutorials. 01:56.850 --> 02:04.020 I also included this image which is the cover image for my own tutorial because images are more eye 02:04.020 --> 02:04.460 catching. 02:04.470 --> 02:11.160 We learned in previous sections about Facebook groups in social media that using images will help create 02:11.160 --> 02:12.720 more engagement for your posts. 02:12.840 --> 02:14.580 And it's the same with Quora. 02:14.580 --> 02:21.210 So once you've added those just click submit and now your answer is on that question if you can gain 02:21.210 --> 02:22.850 a following on Quora. 02:22.950 --> 02:25.660 Or if you have followers that would do this for you. 02:25.740 --> 02:31.650 Send this to them you can share it on social media and try to get votes because this is what gets your 02:31.650 --> 02:34.470 posts to be the best answer. 02:34.710 --> 02:40.350 And if you can kind of lock down that best answer you're going to get consistent traffic to whatever 02:40.350 --> 02:42.780 resources you linked to. 02:42.930 --> 02:45.380 For months maybe even years. 02:45.380 --> 02:51.600 So those are the basics that I would do for answering questions search for topics in your industry post 02:51.600 --> 02:52.670 relevant links. 02:52.680 --> 02:56.460 Don't be biased don't just self-promote try to be helpful. 02:56.460 --> 03:02.610 This one's kind of specifically asking for online resources so it's easy to drop a link but if people 03:02.610 --> 03:06.210 are asking general questions don't just link to a blog article. 03:06.210 --> 03:07.380 Explain your answer. 03:07.410 --> 03:13.050 In the core appose and then at the end of the core posts say if you want more information or this is 03:13.050 --> 03:17.570 where I got this information and then link to the resource itself. 03:17.580 --> 03:20.380 Images are great and be consistent with it.