Tried crowd marketing for my indie project: early SEO numbers + what I'd do differently

I've been building a small crowd marketing service on the side for the last 6 months.

The idea is simple: instead of expensive guest posts or paid PR, I manually post in relevant forums, Reddit threads, and niche communities — natural mentions that build trust and bring traffic.

Here are my early SEO numbers after the first campaigns:

Impressions: 710
Clicks: 9
Average position: #32

All organic. No paid links. Just real posts in real conversations.

A few lessons I learned along the way:

Posting in dead forums is a waste of time — even if DA looks great on paper, if nobody reads it, it won't move the needle.
Actually answering people's questions (not just dropping links) works way better. Real value = real clicks.
It's slow. But the links stick, and they bring referral traffic too — not just SEO juice.
Niche communities often outperform big generic ones. A tight forum of 5k active users beats a dead subreddit of 500k.

I'm now opening this up as a service for other indie projects and SaaS founders.

If you're curious:

Have you tried forum seeding or crowd marketing for your project?
Did it move the needle for SEO, or just for referrals?

Happy to review your project and suggest 3–5 concrete places where I'd start posting for you — just drop a comment.

For context, here's what I'm building: https://kraudd.zzz.com.ua/index-en.html