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Eric Siu explains how SEO agencies post fake questions on Reddit and Quora, wait for them to gain traction, then edit in client links to steal traffic. It's a short-term hack that exploits how search engines rank these platforms.
Eric Siu explains how SEO agencies post fake questions on Reddit and Quora, wait for them to gain traction, then edit in client links to steal traffic. It's a short-term hack that exploits how search engines rank these platforms.
She said, I've just discovered how SEO agencies hijack Reddit for their clients. And this is not necessarily something that's crazy new since, so everyone should know now, Reddit, they're getting a lot more traffic from Google, both Reddit and Quora. And so here's what they do. They find relevant subreddits, then they post a question using this format. What's the best tool for sleeping or something? Or what's the best SaaS tool or agency for X, Y, and Z, right? After 2 to 3 days, they edit the original post. So after it gets a lot of reach, and then they, they add the link back to their client site and that's how they hijack the, the traffic. And so that's another one of these short-term hacks, right?
