As the Hive promotion program on Reddit grows, so do the questions from new HivePosh users. This guide is designed to help them get started.
Building a Reddit Account
Reddit is a perfect social media to promote your blog and blockchain but you can't use it as a conveyor belt for dropping links. The newer your Reddit account, the more likely it is to be suspended for that.
The easiest way to demonstrate your contribution to the Reddit community as a whole is by posting your own original images (without Hive links) in relevant subreddits. It's simple because you already have content on Hive, and there are Reddit communities (aka subreddits aka subs) about anything. Use the search:
You don't have to be great at photography to get upvotes on Reddit, you only need to find the most relevant subreddit for your images. There are subs about clouds, rain, snow, flowers, pets, fruits, cacti, etc.
Always read the rules in the right sidebar of each community before posting for the first time! There can be requirements for titles or types of content.
New users who only drop links and, at same same time, break the rules of subs, are first to be suspended.
Comment other people's posts and repost (crosspost) on your account page other people's posts you like the most.
Find and join subs that fit your interests the most. Read their rules, learn what content is the most successful there, and engage.
I don't mean you should spend hours on Reddit but make an effort to contribute to the Reddit community as a whole instead of only posting Hive links.
Where to Share Hive Links
Share only in thematically relevant subreddits. You can find something in Hive-friendly subreddit list or use the search on Reddit. Exceptions are all subs dedicated to Hive blockchain except r/Splinterlands and r/Holozing.
Don't share on r/blog, r/blogger, r/BloggersCommunity, r/Bloggers: these subs are mostly dead dumps for links; you'll have very low HivePosh rewards for link sharing there.
Before sharing links in a new subreddit, read the rules - they are individual for each subreddit.
Share links to different Hive front-ends (peakd.com, ecency.com, hive.blog, inleo.io) to diverse the profile of your Reddit activity.
What Reddit Mods Want
When you share a link, it needs some upvotes to reach a wider audience. And first people who look at your share are the sub's mods. Thus, upvotes (or downvotes) from the mods are often the push that defines how well your Hive link share will do.
So what kind of shares do the mods want?
Reddit has a great interface for sharing fast content: a single of several images or a short note, for example. If your Hive post consists of only 3 images and 5 words, it might surprise some people that you didn't upload these images directly on Reddit. Some can say: if you don't want to upload on Reddit, then what do you do on Reddit?
Such posts can't be considered the perfect choice for sharing, and don't perform well usually (but not always).
What moderators need is content, including links, that can engage as many Reddit users as possible. This is because moderators primarily need to compete against other subreddits covering the same subject, as well as to grow their subscriber base. So
- give them links to the best thematically relevant posts,
- choose more engaging titles for your shares when possible to generate a discussion below,
- and answer comments to your shares when possible.
Further reading:
- What Hive Posts Are Best to Share on Reddit
- HivePosh Increasingly Determines Most Viewed Posts on Hive Blockchain
- Record 83.9 $HIVE for Sharing a Hive Link
New Hive-Friendly Subreddits Discovered
To help HivePosh beginners, we constantly update a list of Hive-friendly Reddit communities with newly discovered subreddits. Last week, these were:
www.reddit.com/r/spain 🗣 950K by @dkkfrodo
www.reddit.com/r/Kokedama 🗣 2.4K by @theworldaroundme
www.reddit.com/r/RecipeInspiration 🗣 59K by @dkkfrodo
www.reddit.com/r/alaska 🗣 103K by @dkkfrodo
www.reddit.com/r/Chefit 🗣 221K by @x-rain
www.reddit.com/r/Bilbao 🗣 4K by @dkkfrodo
www.reddit.com/r/tbilisi 🗣 34K by @dkkfrodo
www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade 🗣 3M by @theworldaroundme
Most recent HivePosh users are @koenau, @tonyz, @victorbz, @duke254, @sodom-lv, @helicreamarket, @guurry123, @erlisrc, @stuartcturnbull, @ramisey, @thomashnblum, @day1001, @dadspardan, @tuangg, @cesarsj5, @nicklewis
Welcome, all!
Please feel free to ask any questions about HivePosh and Reddit in the comments section below.
All drawings have been generated with PeakD AI: https://peakd.com/ai
This really motivated me to open an account in reddit and share my hive content. Bookmarking fir reference, very handy
Not so easy as I thought.
A lot of posts have been deleted.
I will dive more into it when I have time.
Thanks for the info!
Yup, as I wrote above, they prefer longer stories. Secondly, subscribers of photography subreddits prefer passive watching mode scroll-click-scroll without leaving Reddit. A longish post about a certain subject shared in a relevant subreddit can be a solution. Like, old cars images post in a subreddit about old cars, for example. A post about a recent event can also be helpful.
You can keep this way of raising $HIVE in mind and, at some point, you can get a good idea.
Thank you very much for this information @x-rain 🫂. I was unaware of this dynamic to share content in this ecosystem... as you explain it here in such a detailed and well, really quite logical way, the points you share may be the reason that sometimes or many times new accounts are banned or have restrictions (as is my case).
So, what I plan to do is create a new account that I can set it up (because the one I have won't let me) and from there start little by little to really bring value on Reddit, so I can add to that value the Hive links 🐝
Thank you very much for this great guide, it's an excellent help 💜
👍👍 I hope you have no problem with creating a new account. Just remember that Reddit doesn't mind you have your blog outside of Reddit and Reddit doesn't mind you sharing links to your blog. That's 100% truth about Reddit openly written in their rules. But don't rush with sharing links and give them some (simple) content without links from time to time, and comment as well. 🙂
here is great information about how to share on Reddit.
indeed, as i find, in most of the communities i tried to posts my links, the activity on these links is absolutely 0. I will dig the Reddit deeper.
thank you for the mention.
Photography subreddits aren't the best from this point of view: people there prefer passive watching galleries of images without leaving Reddit.
But you can try posting in other subreddits, for example, www.reddit.com/r/israel. I guess they might be interested in a detailed photo story about a recent event in Israel.
Alas, we can't recycle content on Hive in any form. That means we can't make a compilation of images, like, "best shots of the year" or "best shots I took in travel trip". These would be helpful for sharing on Reddit.
Thanks for the information.
Reblogged and bookmarked also.
An other tip, don't share peakd links... Peakd team added the Google ads, and if you share it, people on reddit will think you are going to try and farm and bait for Google ads revenue... That got me told so it's not just guessing
A thing to keep in mind by the way. Especially, when you share a short post.
As for longer ones, I wouldn't worry. A couple of ads aren't a crime.
If you often share in the same subreddit, they start thinking you profit from sharing. Ads are the most obvious guess. Some people even can visit your account and "look, he daily shares links to peakd!"
I share links to different front-ends to make the look of my Reddit account more diverse.
I like peakd since it looks like a serious article publishing platform with an audience.
Oh change the links is a good idea too!
I like peakd too the most, hive.blog is like too simple and ecency doesn't look too serious, at least from my opinion
Peakd ads are pretty annoying if you are on mobile as they take a good part of the space, on pc is not an issue but on phone meh
:( I didn't know. I use a laptop only except when I want to quickly see something from a restaurant or before sleep, like, what upvotes I got (but always use waivio.com to do so - peakd is too slow)...
That's how they look
That's just when you open the article, right in the middle, first thing you see an ads
A big one down near the comments so one can easily miss press if you want to see comments
Oh, thank you for share this info 💜
I don't have a reddit account, you think I should built my presence in Reddit?