How To (Ab)Use Reddit And Make Extra Few Dollars Per Month
How To (Ab)Use Reddit And Make Extra Few Dollars Per Month
84: Affiliate angle you could experiment with.
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Quick one for today. Last week, there was confirmation that Reddit is selling its user content to a large unnamed AI company for 60mil per year. Not bad. Considering what stupid moves they pulled over the years. They are turning it into a mediocre (at best) website with average thinking that their advice is the best. Imagine putting all your daily efforts into making yourself sound smart to a bunch of random you never met. Sad or funny, we are not sure. Is there still good info here and there? No doubt.
Your mission with Reddit is different. You are there to profit from those who think they are smart. How? Using one cheap yet effective trick that will help you make WiFi money on the side.
Short Intro Into Our Mission
Before going any further, we can’t guarantee how long the method will be available. In this sense, we are unsure how long it will take for Reddit to implement restrictions or certain filters behind this method. Not only that. But there is also a factor in play that no gurus will ever confirm, and that is. Average consumers build up resilience when they realize what is happening. If you are looking for a solid example, cold emails are among the first that pop into our heads.
They are still working and you can still book meetings using them. Older readers will remember how much more responsive the other side was when receiving cold emails. Resilience was built over time, and having a more relevant offer has never been more important. The same principles apply to the method here. Combine that with the potential future Reddit restrictions and resilience built over them.
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that time is limited, and you must act fast to get the most out of this.
Putting Things Into Perspective
This method is nothing else but the spam-around affiliate method that many of you are familiar with from before. This used to happen a lot on the forums. But the internet seems to be moving towards social media and Reddit. The method can be used anywhere and should be one of your ways to make an additional income on the side. If you genuinely believe in a product and it brings value. We suggest signing up for their affiliate program. Spread it around, help others, and profit in the end. Similar to what we are doing with the approved product list.
To get back to affiliate program searching. There are a million ways to tackle this method. You could focus on higher ticket items, meaning your commission will be higher if you convert it. Another option would be to push the subscription type of affiliate. Which has been popular for ages, bringing in smaller chunks per month. But more months in a row - if you are lucky. In our experience, things often stop < 6 months, meaning the consumer stops purchasing the solution. At least, that’s our experience. We have yet to run a health offer and see the average LTV. Wondering what LTV means. You have some further reading to do - industry terminology.
The affiliate networks and where to start? On you to research that part. A few examples are CJ.com and ShareASale. Another option is to go to the product website page and look for “work with us” or an affiliate section. This is often a better way to target. Extra points if they are running in house affiliate engine to track stuff since you won’t be able to find them on those affiliate sites. Important to mention that not all affiliate programs will let you run the offers for them.
Those with more experience will understand. For bigger brands and offers, you must have a social presence or build a website around the niche to get them to give you their links. This should not discourage you. It’s possible to get offers to run without background to back it up. Understand that it’s part of the game and that the brands protect themselves.
So How Should You Do It?
The method itself is easy. Once you choose the niche and industry, the next step is creating multiple Reddit accounts. You can either buy them premade or create them yourself. If you make them yourself, Reddit will give you problems if you use the same IP address. This means you will need proxies and a "profile-based browser". More on that down in the technical part.
After you have the technicals, start dropping comments on those subreddits. If you have zero creativity, one way to do so is to feed AI with your inputs, making it sound as realistic as possible. Trying to abuse it to your advantage by posting generic comments. Your goal when posting comments is not to make them sound generic- you are there to give advice.
When choosing your affiliate program, your best bet is to select the area you are knowledgeable about or passionate about. You are wrong if you thought this method was spam around and drop links. This is a sophisticated operation where you aim to have your affiliate links on the top as long as possible. Why? You will position yourself as a valuable expert, and no one will consider you someone trying to profit off.
We have to mention that this also depends a lot on the subreddit rules. Some will allow affiliate links, others will not, while others will say they don’t allow them. But the subreddit mods are so lazy or simply don’t care. Research that part. You would be surprised how many of them allow the links. Another recommendation worth mentioning is to target more specific niches since it will be 3x easier to get your comments close to the top and end up as one of the search results on Google.
So how does this method work? Let’s say you have nine accounts. You will use six of those nine accounts for boosting (upvotes and comments), and the other three for “real value” posting. Nine might be overkill, but it will allow you to maneuver around with at least eight upvotes, which is not bad. For the first month, you will post answers and your opinions across the subreddit a few times per day. Primarily, your focus should be on helping others. Building karma. Here you will slowly boost your way up with upvotes. Not only that but this period should also be used for espionage. Gives you a clear vision of whether you can profit from using the affiliate links. You also should not be spending hours on this daily. You are better off running the VPN arbitrage or contract stacking if you find yourself in that position.
After you get a picture of how things are working out or not that Subbredit. You will be given a few options:
Go the blasting route and transparently mention it’s your affiliate link since you are working with them.
Cloaking route, which depends heavily on the subreddit mods.
Cloaking the route is good because the average Google user will not realize what is under. Test it out for yourself. Test it out on your offer. You should not aim to get yourself the first comment spot using this. Go for the second or the third one.
You are still going for a higher position that should be accessible easily from Google search. However, this way, keeping it low profile is much easier. At the same time, make sure you are not posting the same affiliate links from just one profile. Approach it smartly, spread it across all three (in this case), and make sure there is a gap in posting. You don’t want to end up looking like a spam bot. Remember, your goal is to play a long-term game.
This is an example of how not to do it.
Tools Of Trade
A great starting point is going through the WiFi money basic security setup. It’s a great introduction and will help you understand the importance of virtual machine running. Separating personal from business. You will need a "profile browser" to handle your proxies and the multiple Reddit profiles you must pull off. Profile-based browser? Nothing else than an anti-detect one. A few examples - Octo browser, GoLogin, and Hidemyacc.
Proxies? Hard advice to give. Because we all know that the best proxies are not bought directly from vendors. But on the forums, consider how they are gathered and functioning. Your best bet? Top sellers on BHW forums or any other alternative sites.
The final tool list comes to:
Proxies
Profile browser - mentioned above
Multiple Reddit accounts
Services like Highervisibility
Before anyone comments, why not save time and buy upvotes from the SMM panel? You could do that as well. But considering our method is not the most obvious comment, we would suggest skipping it. Keeping it low profile and working your way matters. The idea is not to make yourself look like someone doing the method described. Your goal should be to keep it low profile.
Since we mentioned how you should approach the niches and subbredits. The next part is researching across all subreddits using specific keywords. Highervisibility should take care of most of the stuff. It’s a basic Google search results wrapper combined with all the data aggregated in one webpage. Not the best tool out there. But considering it free should give you many ideas and subreddits where you should operate - worth using.
Final Word On The Topic
What is there left to add? Will this method make you extra money at the end of the month? Yes. However, let’s keep it real. It’s hard to scale something like this to bigger numbers. Few hundred per month? Probably if you know what you are doing.
The big plus with this method is that SEO, in a sense, that it helps you. The other part of the formula is for you to understand how to keep it low profile and not get your profile flagged as spam by Reddit, mods, or anyone else paying attention. This is a tricky part that few will master. If you skipped the method overall, at least you can read into a newbie affiliate marketing angle and how to think. It’s the easiest WiFi money type to get into. But the hardest one to master. No doubt.
To wrap it up. Remember, you want solid content to make your profile look legitimate. Use your other accounts to boost your content to be on 2 or 3 spots trying to trick others into upvoting you. You are going full Rambo or cloaking when it comes to affiliate links. The smarter ones will even drive traffic to their website. This is a twice smarter approach than what we mention here. You must run a certain WiFi biz to use it or at least have a website pumping content.
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