I'm the co-founder of Pixelied and I have been messing around with Reddit to see if I can generate traffic from it.
I've been able to generate 6k traffic to Pixelied (a design tool) by recommending our tool on relevant threads. Now, we get wayy more than this from our organic search efforts, which is our main source of revenue. I just wanted to see if I could leverage Reddit which is a hard nut to crack and generate traffic for our website.
For those of you in the SEO space or have some knowledge of it would know that in the last 7 months, Google has given a hyper-boost to Reddit on virtually all the keywords. If you search for 'best business credit card' or 'best pet friendly couch' or any keyword, you'll find Reddit posts ranking in the top 10 search results!
To put things into perspective, Reddit's organic traffic from Google has increased from 150 million to 450 million in the last 7 months (and it isn't slowing down)
We've often seen most people generate traffic from Google, Facebook, TikTok and other social platforms but none talk about how you can leverage Reddit to organically promote your website.
Based on what I did and my learnings, I compiled all that and turned it into a Chrome extension called RedCom.ai.
Here's what you can do with the tool:
It is an AI assistant that helps generate personalized and human-like comments on Reddit. We take all the data from a thread such as the title, description and comments on the post and generate relevant comments.
The strategy works best by commenting on relevant threads related to your product or offer. It is a one-click extension where you can select from 4 different response styles, comment length and product name. Here are the four response styles that we provide:
You can also track all your comments in the dashboard and see which ones are performing. Here's what we track for you:
Reddit is a goldmine for indie hackers to generate the initial traffic for their tool and validate the idea. It is also one of the safest ways to promote your product or software on relevant Reddit threads since you can just mention your tool and the user can search for it on Google by searching your brand name.
I've added tutorials and will be adding more on how you can scale the traffic across multiple Reddit accounts, proxies, how to avoid bans, comments being removed by moderators etc.
If anyone needs my help getting started or would like me to generate some traffic for their tool, hit me know and I'll help you out for free!
Haha never thought that Reddit could also be used to generate traffic or promote something. How do you handle getting banned from subreddits or comments being removed by mods?