What is reddit beginners guide

Learn about reddit how to drive traffic from it

1. What is Reddit? Reddit is an online community where users submit, vote, and comment on content, news, and discussions. 1 By Srisailam Raj

2. Why reddit? As of July 2019, Reddit is ranking as the No. 5 most visited website in U.S. and No. 13 in the world. 55% of reddit users are from United States, 7.4% from UK and 5.8% users from Canada. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit 2 By Srisailam Raj

3. Reddit Stats.. Source: https://www.redditinc.com/ 3 By Srisailam Raj

4. An Overview of Reddit Redditors - Reddit users known as redditors. Moderators - Redditors can become moderators by creating subreddit. Subreddit - It is a community created by redditors to organise same category content into one group. Examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ 4 Reddit is comprising with user generated content includes -Text, links, images and videos . By Srisailam Raj

5. How to use reddit? Create an Account Build a Profile & Increase Authority Start Participating -Submit text, links and images. Join Subreddits & start commenting and voting 5 By Srisailam Raj

6. Creating an Account Open reddit.com Click “register” on upper right side of home page Enter email id -click next Enter username & password Verify email id Note: You cannot change username after creating an account. 6 By Srisailam Raj

7. Build A profile Go to user settings and choose profile tab Write about you, upload profile picture Other settings 7 By Srisailam Raj

8. Start Participating As mentioned in earlier slides you can start posting text, links, images & videos Posting text: Click on create post Enter title & description of the post Choose community in which you want to post Click on post 8 By Srisailam Raj

9. Participating in Communities Search for the relevant communities and join Read community guidelines before you post or comment on others thread Post one link or two links in a day -it's the best practice Always follow the community guidelines(each community has its own guidelines) You can comment, upvote, and downvote Source: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy 9 By Srisailam Raj

10. Prohibited Content Illegal content Pornography content Sexual or suggestive content involving minors Content that encourages or incites violence Personal and confidential information Spam content -Repeatedly posting content in multiple subreddits, sending large amount messages to users, Source: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy , https://www.reddithelp.com/en/tags/rules-reporting , 10 By Srisailam Raj

11. Key features of reddit to know Upvote & Downvote - Upvote indicates positive opinion on the post. The more upvotes increases the content popularly and displayed to the most people on front page. Downvotes indicates negative opinion on the post and decreases content visibility to the users. Karma - Users can earn karma for their posts and comments on reddit. It reflects on the user’s standing within the community and their contribution to the reddit. More upvotes increases karma score. Front -page ranking - Reddit gives front page rankings by considering various factors including age of post, upvotes & downvotes ratio, and the total vote count. 11 By Srisailam Raj

12. Other features -Awards & Honors Reddit premium - Reddit Premium unlocks several features not accessible to regular users, such as comment highlighting, exclusive subreddits and ads free reddit. Awards - Users can give awards to another user for the quality of content. Awards include -Gold, Silver and Platinum. Trophies - Trophies are honors given by reddit for worthy contribution. Example: To commemorate a user with the “Translator” trophy for excellence in language translations. Sources: http://www.reddit.com/coins , https://www.reddit.com/wiki/trophies 12 By Srisailam Raj

13. How reddit helps to TSOM? Answer the threads - Most international students gather information about business schools to make right decision for their higher education. Join the student relevant subreddits and post answer to student queries. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/studyAbroad/ Spread the content - Spread the brands name wherever you find opportunity. Drive traffic - We can share our blog post urls without violating reddit community guidelines to drive traffic. 13

14. Thank you! 14 By Srisailam Raj

15. Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy https://www.shopify.in/blog/how-to-use-reddit https://www.shopify.com/blog/community-management 15 By Srisailam Raj