Brief Summary
This video explores how to leverage Reddit traffic for your website. The author shares five strategies for generating traffic from Reddit, including building Reddit Karma, joining numerous subreddits, creating your own subreddit, and using subreddits for SEO purposes. The video highlights the significant growth of Reddit traffic and emphasizes the importance of building a strong account history before promoting your website. The author also discusses the potential risks and ethical considerations associated with using Reddit for traffic generation.
- Reddit traffic is exploding, with a 6X growth in organic visitors in the past year.
- The author shares five strategies for generating traffic from Reddit, including building Reddit Karma, joining numerous subreddits, creating your own subreddit, and using subreddits for SEO purposes.
- The author emphasizes the importance of building a strong account history before promoting your website and discusses the potential risks and ethical considerations associated with using Reddit for traffic generation.
Reddit Traffic Strategies
The author presents five strategies for generating traffic from Reddit:
- Build Reddit Karma: Before posting any links to your website, build up your Reddit Karma by actively participating in various subreddits. This involves commenting, being helpful, and generally engaging with the community. This helps establish a positive account history and avoids being flagged for self-promotion.
- Join Numerous Subreddits: Join a wide range of subreddits, both broad and niche-specific, and actively participate in them. Post links to other websites, such as news articles from reputable sources like CNN or ABC News, to demonstrate your engagement and build a broader account history.
- Replicate Successful Content: Identify trending stories in other subreddits and create your own blog post with a unique perspective on the topic. Post your article link in a different subreddit that aligns with the story's theme. This approach allows you to leverage successful content and potentially attract traffic to your website.
- Create Your Own Subreddit: Create a subreddit outside of your niche to establish a platform for promoting your website. Build a following and post links to your website, but also continue posting links to other websites to maintain a natural and active community. This strategy is a long-term play, as it takes time to build a following and generate significant traffic.
- Use Subreddits for SEO: Create a subreddit focused on specific keywords and optimize it for Google search rankings. This strategy aims to generate direct traffic from Google search results. While potentially effective, it is considered a "shady" tactic as it involves manipulating both Google and Reddit algorithms. The author advises against relying solely on this strategy but suggests experimenting with it as long as Google continues to rank subreddits.
Reddit Traffic Results
The author showcases the traffic results from his experiment website, demonstrating a significant increase in visitors from Reddit. Over the past 30 days, the website received over 23,000 visitors from Reddit, with a peak of over 11,000 visitors in a single day. The author attributes this success to the strategies outlined in the video, particularly the focus on building a strong account history and engaging with the Reddit community.
Growing Your Subreddit
The author briefly mentions the importance of growing your own subreddit to maximize its potential for traffic generation. He offers a free list of 10 ways to grow your subreddit and increase engagement, which can be accessed on his website, NichePursuit.com/subreddit.
