Tips for a Successful Reddit Post

Reddit had 113,479,741 unique visitors with a total of 5,230,328,296 views during the month of May 2014. As an Online Marketer, you can use Reddit for sharing your own content with the community and drive visitors to your website.
But be aware of the fact that Redditors are there to read and share interesting content, so sharing something that is completely promotional and not interesting at all will lead to criticism by the community and also getting your profile banned from posting in future. In this post, I’ll be covering some Reddit marketing tips along with the things you should keep in mind before posting on Reddit.

Understanding the Reddit Post and Making the Most Out of it:

Title

An interesting and descriptive title is the key to a successful Reddit post. While you write a compelling title, do not mislead the community by writing something that is not present on the landing page of your website. This might get you some initial clicks but soon your post will be nowhere to see. So focus not only on creating great titles but creating great content as well.

Reddit Tip: Get rid of the Captcha under the Reddit post submission form by verifying your email address.

URL

If you are sharing something that is extremely amazing than you need not worry about the URL as the upvotes from users will make your content stand out anyway. Still you are likely to draw more clicks from some specific websites like imgur and YouTube as they are more trusted among the Reddit users. Majority of the content shared on reddit.com actually comes from imgur.com, an image sharing website.

Choose a subreddit

Before you start posting, take some time to search for the subreddits in your business niche. For example, If you are an Online marketer, some good places for you to share and read content will be /r/webmarketing, /r/socialmedia and /r/SEO. The biggest chunk of the Reddit traffic is consumed by the categories like /r/funny, /r/tress, /r/animals, /r/pics and /r/askreddit which may be irrelevant for you. Some other popular ones like /r/pics, /r/gaming and /r/videos might be helpful if your business can relate to them and you have some genuinely interesting content to share.

Reddit Tip: Before Posting into a subreddit, check the top links/posts first, you will know what to post and more importantly what not to post.

No matter how interesting or genuine post you have created, be ready to be bashed by the Reddit community. The people there are smart and know who is there to share interesting content and who is there for self promotion. So, unless you are sharing something that is worth looking at don’t bother posting on Reddit at all. Remember, Reddit is not like Facebook or Twitter where a bad post will lead to fewer likes or less engagement, here you will have to face the consequences of spoiling the user experience of other community members. I’ll sum up by saying that maintain a good reddiquette and you should do just fine.

You can go on posting your links and generate few clicks each time or you can spend the same amount of time in creating some awesome content and then sharing it on Reddit with an interesting title. Not to forget spamming links can lead to temporary or permanent ban for posting from your profile. Let’s understand how to effectively use Reddit by exploring the elements present in the post submission form.