How does Reddit rank communities in search results?

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badroi

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Jun 24, 2013

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• Aug 21, 2023

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Let's say I create a new subreddit for widgets. How do I get my subreddit to rank higher in the Reddit search results when someone searches for widgets?

It looks like Reddit wants the keyword in the subreddit name & favors sites with more subscribers, but it seems other factors are used. Any ideas?

 

karupoiss

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May 16, 2012

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Reddit search is a broken mess.. No idea how it ranks but probably the more subs you have the higher it ranks.

 

akaseo

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• Aug 21, 2023

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badroi said:

Let's say I create a new subreddit for widgets. How do I get my subreddit to rank higher in the Reddit search results when someone searches for widgets?

It looks like Reddit wants the keyword in the subreddit name & favors sites with more subscribers, but it seems other factors are used. Any ideas?

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I have seen it matches words very often.

So if you type images you will se r/image or r/images
same goes for profiles
same goes for subreddits
same goes for posts

 

MrNimbus

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Jul 24, 2022

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• Aug 21, 2023

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It's likely proprietary but it will mostly be based on user interaction with posts.

Up/downvotes
Comments
General activity in each thread

Subscriber count may factor in, but is much more easily manipulated than running all of the above for a 30 day period.

 

IcaroAugusto

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It's mostly post popularity (upvotes/comments) and how recent the post was.