Set up your own Q&A website like Yahoo Answers or Quora

Set up your own Q&A website like Yahoo Answers or Quora

Recently I posted a discussion about how you can set up your own blogging network like blogger.com. Here's the link if you want to read it: Setting up your own blogging platform like Wordpress

Now I'm posting about how you can set up your own Q&A website in a few simple steps


Ok the, here we go.

• Step 1: Register your domain. You'll want something catchy that can be branded easily. Try to get "answers" in the domain name so that people instantly know what the website is about. This will increase the click through rate and sign up rate.
  
• Step 2: Set up a hosting account for where you will have your new Q&A website. You don't need anything crazy right at the beginning because you probably won't have a load of traffic that will be too much for you server.
  
• Step 3: Add Wordpress to your website. It's easy, there's usually an option within your cpanel and you can add it with a few easy clicks.
  
• Step 4: Find a simple theme that you like and upload it. You can use one of the themse at wpmudev for free or you can buy one from a marketplace like themeforest.net
  
• Step 5: Head over to wpmudev.org and sign up. You can start a 14 day free trial so you really don't have to pay for the membership if you don't want to.
  
• Step 6: Download this plugin which will be the main thing that helps you set up your Q&A website: https://premium.wpmudev.org/projec...-answers-plugin/
  
• Step 7: Download another plugin that will help you brand the back end so everything says your domain name and does not refer to Wordpress at all. This will make it look like you took a year to code up everything on the back end but in reality you're using wordpress Here's the branding plugin: https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/ultimate-branding/
  
• Step 8: Configure your plugins and you'll be all set
  

After you do all the steps above, you will have your own Q&A website where people can create loads of content pretty easily

I would set it up so people can post links in their comments/posts so that they are more inclined to come and participate You can make the links nofollow if you'd like.