Reddit is one of the most active social platforms so far. It has over 1.3 billion active users and more than 10 billion pages viewed monthly. Here, I’ll show you how to use Reddit for business.
Reddit is not just a social network; it serves as a forum where like-minded people share experiences, advice, and recommendations. This makes Reddit an excellent avenue to make money online.
About Reddit
To use Reddit and start posting or commenting, you need to register first.
Similar to every community, Reddit has a wide range of special features. To know about this, you can study Reddiquette. The dictionary of basic terms will be of help.
The front page contains trending posts and topics. For users who are unregistered, they see mixed information but registered users see information based on their interests.
Subreddits are sub-communities under Reddit that highlight a wide range of topics. Over a million subreddits exist on Reddit. Anyone can create a subreddit, with its own moderator, rules, and designs.
AMA means “ask me anything”; this is an open interview on Reddit. It is designed so everyone can be an expert in any subject.
Simply write about yourself, put interesting facts with it, and add your purpose to it. This gives room for an interview as people drop their questions on the subject.
Upvotes and downvotes are votes that show whether users are for or against your posts. When you get more upvotes, your posts get very noticeable.
Posts with the highest upvotes directly get to the front page of Reddit or issue-related subreddits. But no one knows the actual procedure for getting to the top.
Karma is the incentive you get on commenting and posting to Reddit. High karma will lead to your words being highly trusted but when you have low karma, the trust likelihood of your words is low.
Even some subreddits do not allow you to post resources or participate in discussions without high karma.
Shadowban is an unnoticeable ban that allows you to keep writing posts and comments with nobody’s response. Once you’re shadow-banned, nobody will see your posts again except only you.
You can either be shadow-banned externally or internally (In addition to a spam list).
Causes of shadow ban include shameless plugs and, also, the mutual rising of upvotes (by using connected accounts to do so).
Reddiquette explains the behavior of Reddit users. Reddit's major drive is its users. Don’t just suddenly start advertising your product as users’ comments and downvotes can remove you if you do so.
The tagline of Reddit is “I hate marketers”. So before you post, get to know more.
I have never used Reddit before but after reading this, it's something I will definitely have to look into in the future.
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Israel Olatunji
First, I use it to see questions people are asking in my niche, then I write topics about that.
And secondly, I use it for the promotion of my website and it works.
Here's what I do since it's possible to rank very fast with Reddit:
After writing a new post, I also write the same on my Reddit account, then link back to my site.
I wrote a post a few days ago on Reddit and in two hours that post was on page one of Google! And the one on my website isn't even ranking yet.
That's awesome
Thanks for sharing this information.
Lily 😁🎶
Israel Olatunji
Israel Olatunji
