Quora Partner Program: My Experience After 6 Months
I've made $180 in 6 months (average of $1 a day), though I was only really active for a couple of those months. The short of it is, if you're doing it for the money it's not worth it. Spending about an hour a day will get you about $3 each day.
Stats and figures to follow, but as an introduction for those who don't know what Quora Partner Program is, it appears to be random who is selected. My guess is that higher quality posting eventually leads to a referral, at which point Quora will spam you for a few days asking you to sign up. It's free to sign up, create an account, and then you have a link on your Quora page allowing you to access "Partners" page. On this page they give you statistics on the questions you've asked. Quora has adopted the mindset that a question that sparks a debate is the seed they need to grow, so they want to share revenue generated from all the answers under a question with the person who planted that seed by asking the question. Personally, I feel this is a little odd, since the content being written by the answers is what is, in my mind, should be rewarded, but I suppose they have concluded that incentivizing people to answer (or plagiarize) quality content to make money might lead to bad things for their community. But I digress...
It appears that Quora has a complex algorithm that factors in internal and external traffic, as well as their ability to advertise off of what questions are related to. That is so say, I've asked some rather strange questions, that didn't seem to get many votes or external traffic but accumulated a relatively high commission (for lack of a better term). One of them, I asked while drunk and watching The Hangover (fitting no?) it was:
"Do tigers really like pepper and hate cinnamon? "
I asked this question on April 12th 2019 and it's earned $32.78 since
Sounds neat huh? In fact, that's the highest grossing question, which baffles me. It's only received 2941 views, much less than many other questions I've asked. It has 100% external traffic and 1490 ad impressions (I'm guessing this is why it's made Quora money and they've passed some on to me). It has one response (one answer). Again, very little engagement. I don't know how to make sense of that.
My second highest grossing question was this:
"Is there still radioactive graphite on the ground at Chernobyl?"
This one has 8240 views and three answers, and it's earned $20.76
My third highest grossing question was
"What is the most bizarre case of road rage you've experienced?"
I'll have to admit I adjusted the words here because questions like "why do people get road rage?" and "what is the reason people get to angry driving?" were taken, and Quora loves to combine questions... giving all credit (and revenue) to the person who asked the earliest question in the merge. So I spun it to create a question that might get a lot of people sharing ideas. EVeryone can think of a time they experienced someone with road rage. This one got over 38,000 views and a lot of responses but almost all were internal to Quora. Only 1% external. So despite the activity it made me a little over $10. I have about 20 other questions that made over $2... but it seems random which took off and which didn't. I also asked some rather fun questions that got some rather entertaining answers that didn't seem to generate anything at all.
It's hard to predict what works and what doesn't. I got bored of it. I've asked a total of 535 questions. I've made $180ish dollars... I'd say that if I devoted a good hour a day to ask 20 quality questions each day, I might be able to make an average of $10 a day... doesn't seem worth it, because you have to really think about what you're asking.
I have only asked maybe a dozen question in the last two months, and it seems the older questions are still producing like 5-20 cents a day... I suppose that means if I continued asking 20 questions every single day... I'd be making more like $3-5 a day towards the end of the year. It appears that Quora stops giving you a reward for your question a year after it was asked though... so you constantly have to create new content.
I'll also say that I've been keeping an eye on the right column in the Partner page and it seems that the average revenue a Partner makes per questions asked has been dropping. When I first signed up the average per question was in the 60-80 cent neighborhood. It's now 26 cents per question. My guess is that the partner program has invited too many people and too many questions are being asked that flood the platform... I also see a higher number of questions being asked with poor English. I'm just guessing here, but I would suspect that some other areas of the world might be more drawn towards making $3-5 a day by devoting a lot of time and energy to questions. So that is diluting things.
My plan is to keep having fun with it, when I think of a question I ask... and follow how it does.
That one time I asked "Why does everyone care so much about Notre Dame now that it burned down?" was something I shouldn't have asked. I asked that specifically to see if putting a question out there that might get an emotional reaction from people would incite them to respond more. They did... not worth the $2 I made from it. I was called all kinds of horrible things. haha.
So here it is... Quora Partner Program Statistics
Last 30 Days
$7.03
Last 7 Days
$2.06
Last 24 hours
$0.11
Unpaid
$4.53
Total
$180.17
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