How to get traffic from Reddit.com - 17 Tips

Dear friends, in this post I want to share with you my experience in attracting traffic from Reddit.com

Reddit is a popular English-language website where users share links to interesting articles on the Internet.
According to Alexa.com service Reddit takes the 10th place in visitor count in the US and 32nd in the world.
Most visitors are coming from United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia:



Reddit has the following benchmarks measuring behavior of its visitors:

• Bounce Rate: 24.2%
• The number of page views per visitor: 10.18
• Time Online: more than 17 minutes

Most valuable thing about Reddit is that it can serve as an instrument for redirecting traffic to your own website for free

PROs

• Attracting traffic is much easier and faster than via Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram.
• Even a novice can redirect several thousand visitors a day to your website.
• Unlike many other social services, publications on Reddit can be seen by your audience and all other people visiting given webpage.
• Service is very trustworthy. Moz Domain Authority ranks it 99 out of 100.
• On Reddit, you can get a direct dofollow link if your message gets several votes.
• Unlike other social networks, large list of contacts or friends is not required to get started right away.
• Brand new websites can take advantage of this service
• The whole scheme is quite simple if you know how to work hard, analyze information, and demonstrate persistence. Success is available to anybody.
• This service can be used to promote informational and commercial websites. Obviously direct promotion of sale pages does not work. Starting a blog and filling it with interesting publications attracts visitors who can be gently nudged to visit online store and generate sales.

Cons

• Sudden flood of visitors redirected from Reddit can crash your servers.
• Links do not work if the publishing does not pick up the minimum number of votes from other users.
• Not all links turn into the web traffic. It takes practice to fine tune your message and attract attention.

Even a beginner can successfully direct thousands of visitors from Reddit to a specific website. More experienced users can get tens of thousands or more - there is no limit.

My natural modesty does not allow me to brag with screenshots and detailed statistics, but several times I almost caused my servers to fail due to much higher than usual traffic coming from Reddit.

This happened because my blog landed on the front page of Reddit.com which took approximately 6 hours from the original time of publication.

My honest goal is to cause my customer's server to fail indeed under pressure of all that traffic coming from Reddit. I am sure that I will achieve that in the coming months I must have a maniac gene in me Despite "training" on Reddit since 2008 I am still far from being an expert on this cool service. Failures and roadblocks do not stop me. For some true virtuosos my results are probably considered 2nd grade level... It is OK, even though I did not try to pull stars from the sky, I still managed to learn many things over these years

Let me share my experience on Reddit:

1

The webpage that you are trying to promote on Reddit must be very well written, designed, and filled with relevant content. Ideally it should be the very best on its subject in the entire world wide web. This point is not negotiable. Keep working on the website until it is a masterpiece.

2

The website has to make a positive impression and look fresh. It must not be saturated with advertising.
It is extremely important because Reddit visitors may flag your link for review and direct Reddit moderator to visit your web page. If your website has poor quality or serves as a redirect to another website - your blog and entire account can be deleted or suspended.

3

Your website should be adapted for mobile devices. Most visitors from Reddit use smartphones and tablets.

4

Your website must have an option to sign up for newsletters. It would be foolish to attract thousands of interested visitors and do not give them the opportunity to subscribe to your newsletter also.
I can tell from experience that Reddit can be very effective tool to accelerate growth of your subscriber list.

5

Reddit community does not appreciate spam. Actually there is an active and never-ending extermination of it - everything suspected of being spam is immediately flagged. Reddit moderators never fail to take preventive measures, including suspension or outright deletion of your account.

It is important to keep in mind that Reddit is different from social networks. On Twitter and Facebook you can publish links to your website exclusively - nobody cares.
It does not work like that on Reddit. Your account and your website can be banned from Reddit forever. That means that nobody will ever be able to post any links to your website.
Publications on Reddit are expected to supply multiple resources. For every link to your website you should publish 5-10 links to other web pages.

6

What other websites should I pick? Please invest a few hours to truly understand the latest trends and join the wave.
There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Just take time to analyze what users really like, find relative information and post a link to them.

7

Your account must appear normal. Post comments on what you like, participate in votes, and lead an active social life

8

On Reddit there are two types of posts: links and text notes. Links are good for traffic, notes are for reference

Examples of links can be found on the main page of Reddit - they immediately lead to other websites

Examples of text notes can be found in lower layers like / TellMeAFact,./.

For Example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TellMeAFact...about_shoguns/