Leveraging Reddit for traffic

authentic posts on reddit do way better than ads.

i got over 1,650 newsletter subscribers to Explodingideas.co on reddit - for free.

Hi there!

It sounds like you have a specific target audience in mind, and targeting sub-reddits can be a great way to reach them. One pro-tip is to make sure that you are providing value to the subreddit community and not just using it as a promotional tool. Engage with the community, participate in discussions, and offer helpful insights related to your niche.

When setting up your campaign, be sure to have a clear goal in mind, such as driving traffic to your landing page. Make sure your messaging is clear and concise, and that your landing page is optimized for conversions. You may also want to consider offering a special promotion or incentive for early sign-ups.

Overall, be authentic and add value to the sub-reddits you are targeting. This will help you establish trust with your audience and increase the likelihood of conversion.

Best of luck with your campaign!

Ask the reddit mods permission to advertise your product, they're pretty uptight on reddit.

Personally, i found the worst ways to get emails or sign ups is by straight up asking for them to sign up. It's better if you have a raw MVP where they interact with, and then ask them to sign up to access the results of whatever you're getting them to do.

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In my limited experience, what works is to:

1. target niche sub-Reddits relevant to your work

2. get specific with what you're promoting -- in my case, I was sharing my Substack. Sharing the link to my Subsatck got me flagged a lot -- sharing links to specific stories from my Substack worked better.

3. Add original content to your post. It's like tailoring a cover letter for a company. Share the link, but also some thoughts that make it relevant to the community.

Exactly, targeting subreddits can achieve a target audience.. In my point of view, you should be careful in choosing the right subreddits.. The main point is, don't just post your content and leave. Engage with the community by responding to comments, answering questions, and participating in discussions. This will help to establish your credibility and build trust with the community. Also measure your success (i.e) tracking plays a vital role in SEO. Use a free SEO tool to track all your progress so that it will help to make informed decisions on how to improve your campaign...

Did this for a bit and it worked a little but I'm not really an expert though.

• it's true that many subs don't like self-promotion
• however, many subs will have a weekly regular thread where you are encouraged to share useful links or what you worked on etc
• even outside these regular threads, if your link is genuinely helpful to the audience most subs won't mind
• every time we posted we'd get some small amount of traffic but it always surprised me how often you could post and many people would say wow thanks for sharing. You probably feel like a spammer but for most readers it will be the first time seeing whatever you are sharing 😬

Get a couple of reddit accounts that you can burn. If you're persistent you will almost definitely get banned so you need to do your best to make sure that you 1. space your posts out 2. have a backlog of non-promotional content under your user history 3. phrase your post in such a way that it seems authentic (better yet, have it be authentic).

All of this advice isn't needed if your product and the sub align completely. But I suspect that's unlikely and even if you think it adds value the mods may disagree so you need to stay frosty to keep them from shutting down your post.

I'd join a couple of sub-reddits and contribute there before posting self-promo stuff

I explored reddit a lot. Mass DMs never work and it can lead you to your account getting permanently suspended. Just focus on engaging in the relevant communities and people will come to check you out. Reddit is rapidly changing its terms and conditions so beware.
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I've been participating in relevant subreddits to my newsletter and I haven't had any negative experience. On the contrary, people have been quite supportive and it's where I've been getting most of my subscribers. I think it depends a lot on how you present it. I like to contribute with genuine value before I self-promote, as opposed to purely self-promoting, and this has been well received.

As a user of the indie hacker community for so many years, I would like to use this first opportunity to post my small creations, I would love to hear from all of you hackers who can get everyone's attention while respecting the rules of the community?

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Still under development can DM when its "out"

From my experience people at reddit absolutely hate any self promotion. There might be a couple of subs specifically made for self promotion, but you will get removed/banned from everything else at even the slightest hint of self-promo.