As the Hive promotion program on Reddit grows, so do the questions from new HivePosh users. This guide is designed to help them get started.

Building a Reddit Account

Reddit is a perfect social media to promote your blog and blockchain but you can't use it as a conveyor belt for dropping links. The newer your Reddit account, the more likely it is to be suspended for that.

The easiest way to demonstrate your contribution to the Reddit community as a whole is by posting your own original images (without Hive links) in relevant subreddits. It's simple because you already have content on Hive, and there are Reddit communities (aka subreddits aka subs) about anything. Use the search:

You don't have to be great at photography to get upvotes on Reddit, you only need to find the most relevant subreddit for your images. There are subs about clouds, rain, snow, flowers, pets, fruits, cacti, etc.

Always read the rules in the right sidebar of each community before posting for the first time! There can be requirements for titles or types of content.

New users who only drop links and, at same same time, break the rules of subs, are first to be suspended.

Comment other people's posts and repost (crosspost) on your account page other people's posts you like the most.

Find and join subs that fit your interests the most. Read their rules, learn what content is the most successful there, and engage.

I don't mean you should spend hours on Reddit but make an effort to contribute to the Reddit community as a whole instead of only posting Hive links.

Where to Share Hive Links

Share only in thematically relevant subreddits. You can find something in Hive-friendly subreddit list or use the search on Reddit. Exceptions are all subs dedicated to Hive blockchain except r/Splinterlands and r/Holozing.

Don't share on r/blog, r/blogger, r/BloggersCommunity, r/Bloggers: these subs are mostly dead dumps for links; you'll have very low HivePosh rewards for link sharing there.

Before sharing links in a new subreddit, read the rules - they are individual for each subreddit.

Share links to different Hive front-ends (peakd.com, ecency.com, hive.blog, inleo.io) to diverse the profile of your Reddit activity.

What Reddit Mods Want

When you share a link, it needs some upvotes to reach a wider audience. And first people who look at your share are the sub's mods. Thus, upvotes (or downvotes) from the mods are often the push that defines how well your Hive link share will do.

So what kind of shares do the mods want?

Reddit has a great interface for sharing fast content: a single of several images or a short note, for example. If your Hive post consists of only 3 images and 5 words, it might surprise some people that you didn't upload these images directly on Reddit. Some can say: if you don't want to upload on Reddit, then what do you do on Reddit?

Such posts can't be considered the perfect choice for sharing, and don't perform well usually (but not always).

What moderators need is content, including links, that can engage as many Reddit users as possible. This is because moderators primarily need to compete against other subreddits covering the same subject, as well as to grow their subscriber base. So

give them links to the best thematically relevant posts,
choose more engaging titles for your shares when possible to generate a discussion below,
and answer comments to your shares when possible.