Account & Subreddit Banned for Spam - Question

Hello,

I created an account last year and gained a bit of Karma. I then created a subreddit dedicated to my website, where I was sharing the new blog posts we were publishing.
My account & subreddit got nuked for spam, but after reading their rules (yeah... not a fun way to spend an hour) I don't see any rules against what I was doing.

Can someone give me any insight? Also any tips on how I can actually do this?

Reddit will often ban accounts or subreddits whose only purpose is self promotion (unless its for onlyfans, then its allowed for some reason). You can try using multiple accounts/subreddits to decrease the risk of losing everything with a single ban.

Reddit views anything close to self promotion as stealing ad dollars from them. They will perma ban at the slightest hint of it. They track your IP & browser fingerprints so if you try to create a new account they will immediately perma ban the new accounts.

Next time - compartmentalize everything. Build in random noise. Try to look like a typical reddit user. Don't start a subreddit for your company name better to pick a generic industry term. Avoid any patterns that are easy for reddit to spot (for example same accounts upvoting the same thing).

jolamo said:

Reddit views anything close to self promotion as stealing ad dollars from them. They will perma ban at the slightest hint of it. They track your IP & browser fingerprints so if you try to create a new account they will immediately perma ban the new accounts.

Next time - compartmentalize everything. Build in random noise. Try to look like a typical reddit user. Don't start a subreddit for your company name better to pick a generic industry term. Avoid any patterns that are easy for reddit to spot (for example same accounts upvoting the same thing).

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Is this actually written in their rules/user agreement? I wasn't able to find it. I found this: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion/
My worry now is if the site has been blacklisted or not. Is it even worth starting over with the lesson learned, or just ignore reddit alltogether?

SMMSEO said:

Is this actually written in their rules/user agreement? I wasn't able to find it. I found this: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion/
My worry now is if the site has been blacklisted or not. Is it even worth starting over with the lesson learned, or just ignore reddit alltogether?

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Even if not written reddit does what ever they think its best for them. That includes a lot of rogue anti spam tactics.
You can easily check if your domain is blacklisted by posting it again somewhere. If it is visible when you check that post in for example incognito then it is not banned.

In my opinion it is worth doing stuff with reddit as it is literal gold mine (even today) if you know how to use it, but learning what is okay and what is not takes a lot of time and patience.
If you do try again, do not post links more than once in a blue moon on your sub, any more than like 1 link per 10 legit posts will get your subreddit banned.

Best of luck!

yea reddit can be a hard place to promote as users said above you probably got banned for self promoting they don't like a sub directed at a single site.

SMMSEO said:

Hello,

I created an account last year and gained a bit of Karma. I then created a subreddit dedicated to my website, where I was sharing the new blog posts we were publishing.
My account & subreddit got nuked for spam, but after reading their rules (yeah... not a fun way to spend an hour) I don't see any rules against what I was doing.

Can someone give me any insight? Also any tips on how I can actually do this?

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When your self promoting , make sure you use multiple accounts and also open many subreddits too , this will help ease everything and sometimes you may be reported by the members them selves as redditors tend to be very sensitive to selfpromotion , unless your offering real value