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Should You Use Quora Boards?

Quora is an online question and answer website. You show up, ask questions and other people answer them. Or you answer questions that other people ask. Simple, right?

Well, it just got better. Now, Quora has a service it calls Boards. You can set up a Board around any topic you like and post links and leave comments about that topic on your Board. You can also invite other Quora users to post to the Board. As administrator, you can make them authors or co-owners.

So what’s this got to do with your business? A lot. Since you run a business that caters to a particular clientele or provides a particular service, you can set up a Board that is all about that topic or covering topics that are important to your clientele.

You can’t monetize a Quora board. But you can use it to build links to your web properties. Every time you write a blog post, post it to Quora. When you find something interesting about your topic that your audience would find relevant, post it to Quora. You can essentially use it just like any other social bookmarking website except that you can also post to your Quora Board the same way you’d post to Twitter or Facebook.

What it looks like is a cross between Facebook and Pinterest. Photos are great for Quora Boards. You catch people’s attention. Once you have their attention, you can send people anywhere you want on the web.

Cool, huh?