thanks for sharing. people say Reddit is not a good media for promotion, do you have any experience?
Some but I'm no expert at using Reddit for promotion. I wouldn't say it's bad but you just have to go about it without being suspicious at all.
Redditors, the ones with high karma accounts or who moderate lots of subredits and have a lot of sway over the content (their votes count more, they're able to get you banned from the platform for no reason other than simply disliking something you said), they hypocritically dislike advertising and self promotion despite the fact that they seem to live for the meaningless approval of strangers and self-promote or promote content that push their opinions all the time.
There's threads on BHW that go into strategies on how to promote content on Reddit so it seems organic. Be prepared to create or buy multiple aged accounts, run them using a good anti-fingerprint browser that keeps the accounts using separate cookies, browser fingerprint metrics, and residential or mobile device proxies.
My main issue with using Reddit is, as I mentioned before, it's an ongoing investment in time, money, and energy as you'll get some initial traffic from your efforts, then it will die off and you need to post again.
But you can't keep promoting the same thing from the same accounts because that's suspicious and so is posting about the same thing in the same subs more than occasionally.
People will take notice and report you.
Probably the most straight forward approach is to buy or take over an existing, established sub that's at least somewhat relevant to what you want to promote. As the moderator, you can then use sockpuppet accounts to promote content and then ignore it when people report it and even remove people who downvote it or start to post about how you (the mod) are letting people post spam or whatever.
Keep in mind, you have to balance this out with keeping real users coming in and using the sub because that's the whole point... to get real traffic. So even if you own the sub, you can't be to obvious with promoting it.
But there are others on BHW with a lot more experience using Reddit for marketing than me. For sure, I wouldn't bother with paid ads though. The whole way paid ads work on Reddit is a complete dumpster fire. The business model is idiotic and Reddit's executives are desperately trying to get the platform to actually make a profit so they can IPO and cash out.
Part of this is cracking down even more on people spamming the site or doing vote manipulation. They want you to pay for ads, not post them for free, but their ad system is complete garbage.
It's why they're killing off 3rd party Reddit apps with their new API fees (without admitting that's what it's all about), because they all block ads.
