Reddit growth strategies?
The purpose of this thread is to discuss Reddit strategies. What works or what doesn’t and the experience you had of either. I have found it good to be an active member of a particular subreddit but having a URL post that directly links to my work has been a challenge. I have had some moderate success in posting links in posts authored by someone else.
Reddit is a great platform for visibility but I find its self-promotion policies contradictory. Users are allowed to post content that may not even be theirs without a citation but when a creator posts their work this is viewed as bad. It should be a platform of discovery that lets the user decide whether or not they want to engage in content regardless of whether or was by the creator or not.
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I agree that being an active member of a subreddit helps a lot. Direct links tend not to work in my experience but I have had good success writing summaries of my articles and posting them as easy-to-digest lists in Reddit.
It also depends a lot on the subreddit. Some subreddits have crazy rules and allow no links at all (/r/blogging, for example) while others are a lot more relaxed like r/entrepreneur.
They key is to try various strategies and see what works.
I have had some success with summaries followed by a link in a post. Again, the aggressiveness towards external links in some subreddits seems unwarranted.
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Just so I have this right, the strategy to promote your content is:
Don't copy/paste your whole blog post into a reddit post
Don't just leave a link to your blog post
Summarize (100-200 words?) Your post and include link. Correct?
I had a few great posts (in subreddits with audience of my potential customers) where I asked people questions about themselves.
Pushing your product in the post content is usually frowned upon. This is not just about subreddit rules, regular users don't like it as well.
So in my experience the key is to start conversations. And push your product to people you connect with, either publicly or on private messages.
Was it related the rules of that particular subreddit? Or you found it across the board in reddit?
Some subreddits have rules that are conditional on self promotion and it’s up to the mods discretion. I had a blog post that was career related and was insta banned from r/jobs and I was mod muted for 72hrs. Super aggressive. It was a motivational blog post on career choice. I found similar posts that were archived in the subreddit. Guess I wasn’t one of the lucky ones.