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Quora was excellent for SEO, so brands and companies started using Quora answers to pump their own products and services. It's completely useless now.
by rchaud 3y ago
Quora was excellent for SEO, so brands and companies started using Quora answers to pump their own products and services. It's completely useless now.
- permo-w 3y agoI wouldn't say that's the problem I've observed. around 2015 or so I remember consistent useful Quora answers from Quora. it was Yahoo answers but better because people could justify with qualifications. I actually had an account briefly then I'm not exactly sure when, but definitely by 2018, every answer I ever see on Google is either incorrect, answering the wrong question, or in broken English. commonly all three at once I don't recall ever seeing a product placement, although admittedly I stopped clicking a long time ago my educated guess is that due to some likely seo-related concern they deleted/archived/unlisted their old good quality answers in favour of newer more seo-friendly answers it may not even be their fault, it's possible that Google's algorithm just doesn't drag up older answers from their website, but given my experience with the decision-making in the brief time I was a user there (e.g. removing the ability to add a description to questions) I suspect not