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Eric Siu explains how SEO agencies post questions in Reddit communities, let them gain traction, then edit in client links days later to steal referral traffic. It's a short-term hack that exploits how people share old posts.
Eric Siu explains how SEO agencies post questions in Reddit communities, let them gain traction, then edit in client links days later to steal referral traffic. It's a short-term hack that exploits how people share old posts.
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?
