Insights and guides on community marketing, Reddit, SEO, and growth.
Most sites think they're crawlable by AI bots and aren't. The common blockers are Cloudflare rules, server rate limits, outdated robots.txt, JavaScript rendering, and CDN caching. Here is the audit.
AutoModerator decides whether your subreddit feels like a community or a spam bucket. The day-one config we ship with branded subs, with working YAML.
In 2024, Reddit signed a $60 million per year licensing deal with Google to train Gemini on Reddit conversations. That same year, brands started realizing what the deal meant. The conversations h
The four major AI engines do not work the same way. ChatGPT owns referral traffic, Gemini owns reach, Perplexity owns research, Claude owns the B2B technical audience. The per-engine playbook.
F5Bot is a free service that emails you whenever your keywords appear on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters. It has been running for nine years, sends more than 175,000 alerts per day, and replaces
The first 100 subscribers are the hardest 100 you will ever get. An empty subreddit looks dead within seconds of a new visitor landing on it. The sidebar is blank, the feed is thin, and there is
You do not need a $499 per month Profound subscription to measure AI visibility. The free tools in 2026 are genuinely good, and the right stack of two or three covers most small brands.
Generative Engine Optimization is not a rebrand of SEO. It is the practice of making your brand visible inside answers generated by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and it h
Claude is the most overlooked engine in AI visibility work, and it is also the one where the audience converts hardest. Here is how we get clients cited inside Claude's answers for brand queries.
Most brands think of AMAs as something you apply for on r/IAmA, get approved (maybe), and hope the right audience shows up. That model is outdated. If you own a branded subreddit, the better play
Most agencies treat 'get cited by AI' as one problem. It is actually three: training data, retrieval-augmented generation, and real-time web search. Each engine mixes them differently, and the inter
Reddit accounts for 40 percent of LLM citations across the major AI engines. The $60M Google deal, the OpenAI license, the lawsuits, and what it means for brands in 2026.