So I threw together a site three days ago and posted it the next day. It was something super basic and I probably spent 2 hours total on the site itself. Maybe an hour, if that, creating the content for Reddit and managing the post once it was up.
Using only methods I explained in this topic and
taken from my tutorial these are the results:
Question thread: Over 3700 upvotes, still up on Reddit, lots of engagement
Answer thread: Over 1000 upvotes, I removed this myself once the experiment was done as posting a link with a comment typically works best with an active account. I use the account for other personal projects.
Qualified Click-thrus to website: About 280, extremely low for what I'm used to but I was literally only doing this because not a single person in this thread has come back with any sort of results.
Clicks on link on website: A little over 30, that's typical when you start hyper-filtering your traffic for the kind of campaign I was running.
Qualified clicks with EPC (earnings per click): 14 for the campaign with an EPC of 33 cents.
That was with a recycled campaign and basically no further effort. This was also a hyper-filtered campaign where a user would have to - click on Reddit post, see comment, click on link in comment, click on link in content, be qualified, click through multi-page affiliate offer. You're losing close to an order of magnitude with every step. The HUGE traffic comes from posting a direct link to your website on Reddit, but this specific campaign wasn't built for that.
The nice thing is there are a couple of small tweaks I can make to the Reddit content and the website which will probably allow me to run this campaign on a more permanent basis. The site is already there, the site content is there, all I have to do is change things up a bit.