Generate more leads with the Quora Ads + HTTP Request (GET/POST) integration

Quora is an excellent source of information, with plenty of experts across million and one diverse industries chiming in order to share their experiences and knowledge. Previously, Quora could only be used for thought leadership by responding to questions and hoping it was enough to build a strong reputation.

As of June 2017, however, businesses can now run Quora Ads. What does Quora Ads offer? First of all, we can see a self-service interface. It's pretty intuitive and easy to use and it’s also easy enough to add a user to access your account. There are many campaign types available on Quora Ads. Currently, the platform offers two options: conversions or App Installs.

Quora also offers the possibility to customize your audience targeting. By installing a pixel code on your website, you can remarket to your own website visitors while they are browsing through Quora. Otherwise, you can target a specific audieence using topics. Quora also has a tool that allows you to find additional topics to expand your reach, in addition to location targeting by country, city or regions.

HTTP is a protocol that works with a client / server architecture. The client makes a request, and the server returns the response. In common use, the client corresponds to the browser and server the machine on which the website resides. There are therefore, two types of HTTP messages: request messages and reply messages.

HTTP differs from other layers seven protocol such as FTP, because connections are generally closed once a particular request (or a series of related requests) has been met.

This behavior makes the HTTP protocol ideal for the World Wide Web, where the pages very often contain links to pages hosted by other servers thus decreasing the number of active connections limiting them to those actually needed with an increase in efficiency (lower load and occupancy) both on the client and on the server. However, sometimes it poses problems for web content developers, because the stateless nature of the browsing session forces to use alternative methods (typically based on cookies) to preserve the user's status.