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...
AI Search
AI search refers to search experiences that generate a direct, synthesized answer — usually with cited sources — instead...
AI Hallucination
An AI hallucination is a confident, fluent, but factually wrong or fabricated statement produced by a language model. Ha...
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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...
Buying Intent Signal
A buying intent signal is a public expression of active evaluation of a purchase decision. On Reddit, these typically ap...
Brigading
Brigading is the practice of coordinating multiple Reddit accounts to upvote, downvote, or comment on a specific thread ...
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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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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...
Google AI Overviews
Google AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of Google search results, synthesizing an answer f...
Grounding
Grounding is the process by which an AI system bases its generated answer on retrieved external sources rather than on t...
GPTBot
GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler, used to collect publicly available content for training and improving its models. It ide...
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LLM Citations
LLM citations are the references that large language models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) produce when answering...
LLM Optimization (LLMO)
LLM Optimization (LLMO) is the practice of structuring and distributing content so that large language models — ChatGPT,...
llms.txt
llms.txt is a plain-text (Markdown) file placed at a website's root that gives AI systems a concise, structured overview...
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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'...
Reddit Attribution
Reddit attribution is the practice of linking a signup or purchase back to the specific Reddit comment, thread, or subre...
Reddit Funnel
The Reddit marketing funnel describes the typical 5-stage conversion path: (1) awareness (a user sees your comment in a ...
Reddit Affiliate Marketing
Reddit affiliate marketing is the practice of recommending products on Reddit using affiliate links that earn commission...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an architecture where an AI system first retrieves relevant documents from an ex...
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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...
Share of AI Voice
Share of AI voice is the proportion of AI-generated answers — across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI...
Semantic Search
Semantic search retrieves results based on the meaning and intent behind a query rather than exact keyword matches. It w...
Schema Markup
Schema markup is structured data, usually written in JSON-LD, that you add to a page to explicitly describe its content ...