Glossary

Reddit Marketing Glossary

Every term you need to know to market effectively on Reddit — from karma to AI visibility.

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AutoModerator

AutoModerator (AutoMod) is a sitewide bot that subreddit moderators configure using YAML-based rules to automatically fi...

Astroturfing

Astroturfing is the practice of creating the appearance of organic community support for a product, brand, or idea using...

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring content so that it is retrieved and cited by AI-powered ...

Answer Engine Optimization

Answer Engine Optimization is the emerging discipline of creating content specifically formatted for retrieval and citat...

AI Visibility

AI visibility is a brand metric measuring how frequently and favorably a company, product, or service appears in the res...

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Brand Monitoring

Brand monitoring on Reddit is the continuous tracking of mentions of a company name, product name, founder name, or rela...

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Crosspost

A crosspost is Reddit's native content-sharing mechanism that reposts an existing submission from one subreddit into ano...

Cake Day

Cake day is Reddit's term for the annual anniversary of an account's creation date — Reddit displays a small cake icon n...

Community Marketing

Community marketing is the strategy of building brand awareness and trust by becoming a genuine participant in communiti...

Content Seeding

Content seeding is the practice of strategically introducing high-quality content (guides, data studies, tools, resource...

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Domain Authority

Domain Authority (DA) is a third-party SEO metric developed by Moz (scored 1–100) that predicts how likely a domain is t...

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Flair

Flair on Reddit refers to two related systems: post flair (a label applied to a submission to categorize it, such as 'Qu...

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Guerrilla Marketing on Reddit

Guerrilla marketing on Reddit refers to unconventional, low-budget tactics designed to generate outsized attention and w...

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of optimizing a brand's digital presence so that it appears favorab...

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Karma

Karma is Reddit's cumulative reputation score, split into post karma (earned when your submissions are upvoted) and comm...

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LLM Citations

LLM citations are the references that large language models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) produce when answering...

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Moderator

A Reddit moderator (mod) is a volunteer user given administrative control over a specific subreddit by the community's f...

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NSFW Tag

NSFW (Not Safe For Work) is a content warning tag applied to Reddit posts or entire subreddits indicating adult or sensi...

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Old Reddit vs New Reddit

Old Reddit (old.reddit.com) is the original text-dense interface built on the 2005 codebase, featuring inline vote butto...

OP (Original Poster)

OP stands for Original Poster — the user who submitted the initial post in a thread. Reddit marks the OP's comments with...

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Purchase Intent Detection

Purchase intent detection is the NLP process of identifying posts and comments where a Reddit user has signaled active r...

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Reddit Awards

Reddit Awards (formerly Reddit Gold, Silver, and Platinum; now consolidated under various named awards) are purchasable ...

Reddit Premium

Reddit Premium (formerly Reddit Gold) is Reddit's paid subscription service, costing $5.99/month or $49.99/year. Subscri...

Reddit API

The Reddit API is a REST and OAuth-based programming interface that allows authorized applications to read posts/comment...

Reddit Marketing

Reddit marketing is the practice of building brand awareness, generating leads, or driving conversions through activity ...

Reddit Lead Generation

Reddit lead generation is the practice of identifying Reddit users who have expressed intent, need, or interest in a pro...

Reddit Ads

Reddit Ads is Reddit's self-serve advertising platform offering promoted posts (native-looking ads in subreddit feeds), ...

Reddit SEO

Reddit SEO refers to the practice of optimizing Reddit posts and comments to rank in Google search results for target ke...

Reddit Self-Promotion Rules

Reddit's self-promotion rules are a combination of sitewide policies and subreddit-specific rules governing how users ca...

Reddit Outreach

Reddit outreach is the practice of proactively engaging with Reddit users who have expressed relevant needs, questions, ...

Reddit Account Warm-Up

Reddit account warm-up is the structured process of building a new Reddit account's karma, account age, and posting hist...

Reddit DM Outreach

Reddit DM outreach involves sending direct messages (called 'chat' in new Reddit) to individual users who have posted or...

Reddit Scraping

Reddit scraping refers to programmatic collection of Reddit posts, comments, and metadata at scale — typically via the R...

Rate Limiting

Rate limiting is a technical control that restricts how many requests an application or account can make within a define...

Reddit OAuth

Reddit OAuth (Open Authorization) is Reddit's identity delegation system that allows third-party applications to access ...

Reddit Backlinks

Reddit backlinks are links from Reddit posts or comments pointing to external websites. Reddit uses 'nofollow' and 'ugc'...

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Shadowban

A shadowban is an account-level suppression that makes all of a user's content invisible to everyone except themselves. ...

Subreddit

A subreddit is an independent, topically focused community within Reddit, prefixed with r/ (e.g., r/startups, r/personal...

Subreddit Monitoring

Subreddit monitoring is the practice of systematically tracking posts and comments across one or more subreddits for spe...

Social Listening

Social listening is the practice of monitoring digital channels for mentions of a brand, product, competitor, or topic k...

Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment analysis is an NLP (natural language processing) technique that classifies text as positive, negative, or neut...

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Upvote / Downvote

Upvotes and downvotes are Reddit's binary voting system — every post and comment can receive one upvote or one downvote ...

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