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Posted about my site on Reddit and it's gotten over 200 comments within the first couple hours

I posted about my community (www.localSEOcommunity.com) on Reddit, and it has gotten over 200 comments within the first couple hours, and led to a ton of new members in my community.

Here is the Reddit post for anyone interested:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/khj6qj/i_created_a_community_for_discussing_local_seo/

Edit: over 380 comments now 😅

Edit 2: Had over 540 comments before the post was removed by a moderator 😢

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    Nearly 350 - damn that took off.
    Hope you can use it too grow your community!

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      Yeah, pretty insane! 😅

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    Removed by the mods. Seems these guys don't like competition :))

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      That's reddit for you haha

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    I'm a member 👍👍👍

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      Happy to have you in the community 🤓

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    @DavisBaer - are you a local SEO guy? Meaning, is that what you do for a living?

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        Interesting -- so your app allows the post content to be different per platform? For example, if I want to post the same general content to FB, IG, and Twitter, I may not use hashtags for FB (because they're useless), may use different hashtags between IG & Twitter (because it just makes sense), and use different @ tags because the accounts are not the same across different platforms most of the time.

        Can your tool do that?

        If so, do you have to use a different tool to research hashtags, or confirm account names on the different platforms?

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          Yep 😊 When creating a post in OneUp, you will see a "Customize post for each network" button: https://imgur.com/a/rgCeW54

          We do not have any hashtag research tool or account name research tool though.

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            You may have just found yourself a new user/customer.

            That has been my gripe all along -- posting on different social platform sucks because every platform has different nuances.

            I literally just posted about this problem here on IH somewhere.

            Now, how to tackle the hashtag/account name research tool part :)

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              We would be happy to have you :)

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    Well played! Surprised you had it there for so long. Mods must had been asleep l like your strategy straight to the point.

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    Must be some slow mods, my posts get deleted in 45 minutes.

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    Congrats!

    Why did you manually invite vs. posting a link? Also, why was it removed?

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      Reddit can be extremely hostile to self promotion.

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      Thanks!

      The SEO subreddit doesn't allow links in posts, so it wasn't an option.
      However, I think everyone commenting that they want to join actually helped, because other people saw the comments and increased the FOMO 10x

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        ah interesting. Thanks and congrats again :)

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    Congratulations! This is what you wish for.

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    You hit a homerun. Best of luck with your community!

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    I looked at the Reddit post for a couple of minutes. The count kept going up every few seconds. It's crazy.
    Congratulations @DavisBaer!

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      Thanks! Yeah, it is pretty crazy 😯

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    That's awesome, congrats.

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    Wow, this is huge. I joined your community when you posted here last time and we had a chat regarding Mcafee issue. Congrats on your Reddit success. How many sign ups so far?

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      Thanks again for your previous help!

      About 150 new members so far, but that is still growing because many invites I sent out haven’t been opened yet

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    Nice design, just one suggestion:
    I think you should not check the "I accept the terms of service & privacy policy" by default on the registration page: let your users do it themselves.
    I don't know about the laws around you, but that is "technically you accepting for your users" 😅

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      The community runs on Circle.so so that comes from their end.

      I can forward this on to them though :)

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    Update: over 260 comments now!

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      Over 290 comments now. Wow.

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        Over 420 comments now...

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          Now over 450 comments on the post

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    Major! Congrats on your hater!

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      Haha always gonna have at least 1 hater on reddit

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    That is awesome, congrats!

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    This comment was deleted 3 years ago.

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      Yeah, I think the social proof of all the existing members really helped

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