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Reddit Affiliate Marketing — Step-by-Step Guide

0h 17m video Published Feb 21, 2025 Transcribed Aug 6, 2026 XB Marketing XB Marketing
Beginner 9 min read For: Beginners in affiliate marketing who want to use Reddit to drive traffic and earn commissions without getting banned.
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AI Summary

This video is a beginner-friendly tutorial on making money with Reddit affiliate marketing. It covers account setup, finding niche subreddits, building trust and karma, writing posts that rank, using DMs to promote affiliate links, and the best affiliate programs to join.

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Reddit at a glance

Reddit is a social media platform with thousands of niche communities called subreddits. It gets over 3 billion monthly visits, with more than 50% of traffic coming from the United States.

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The beginner mistake

Typical beginners spam their affiliate links across subreddits and get banned. Reddit uses advanced spam filters and moderators to prevent spam, so you need trust-based strategies instead.

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Create a long-lasting account

Sign up at reddit.com or via the Reddit app using Google, Apple, or any email. A long-lasting, reputable account is the foundation for scaling affiliate marketing on the platform.

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Find subreddits with search

Use Reddit's search bar to type a keyword related to your niche, then click on the Communities tab to see many subreddits and related communities you can join.

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Find subreddits with a tool

A free 'find related subreddit' tool lets you enter a keyword and instantly see related subreddits, plus highly targeted subreddits such as specific dog breeds like Golden Retriever or Pitbull.

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Build trust with genuine engagement

Trust is key on Reddit. Leave genuine, detailed comments sharing your real experience instead of one-liners like 'that is cool' — this earns upvotes and builds a reputable account.

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Daily engagement routine

Engage with at least 5 to 10 posts every day for at least 3 days. This builds karma naturally and prevents your posts from being deleted by moderators or Reddit itself.

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Viral post strategy 1: answer new questions

Search a keyword like 'how to lose weight', filter results by 'new', and answer recent questions. High-value answers can rank well and get thousands of comments over time.

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Use DeepSeek to generate answers

Copy the question, paste it into DeepSeek (free), and let it generate a detailed answer. You can then paste that answer as a comment and optionally add your affiliate link.

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Viral post strategy 2: create your own Q&A

Use DeepSeek to generate 10 captivating variations of a top-ranking question. Then create two Reddit accounts: one asks the question, the other answers it with an AI-generated response.

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Scale with Reddit DMs

Find posts with many comments, open the user's profile, and start a chat. Send a free YouTube video that provides value first, wait 24–48 hours, then send your affiliate link.

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Best affiliate programs

ClickBank offers over 50% commission per sale, Amazon Associates has many products to promote, and OfferVault provides CPA offers where users enter an email or install an app.

Reddit affiliate marketing works when you build trust first, provide genuine value, and use smart tactics like answering fresh questions and warm DMs — not by spamming links.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 02:42 Create a Reddit account via reddit.com or the app using Google, Apple, or email sign-up.
2 03:24 Find subreddits using Reddit search or the free 'find related subreddit' tool.
3 05:36 Build trust by leaving genuine, detailed comments and engaging with 5–10 posts daily for at least 3 days.
4 08:14 Search a niche keyword, filter by 'new', and find recent questions to answer.
5 10:13 Use DeepSeek to generate detailed answers, then paste them as comments with your affiliate link.
6 11:50 Create two Reddit accounts: one asks a question, the other answers it using an AI-generated response.
7 13:30 DM users who ask questions in popular posts: send a free YouTube video first, wait 24–48 hours, then send your affiliate link.
8 16:15 Join affiliate programs like ClickBank, Amazon Associates, or OfferVault to monetize your Reddit activity.

Study Flashcards (8)

How many monthly visits does Reddit get?

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Over 3 billion monthly visits, with the majority of traffic coming from the United States.

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What is the biggest mistake beginners make with Reddit affiliate marketing?

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They grab their affiliate link and spam it across multiple subreddits, which gets their account banned.

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How many posts should you engage with daily to build trust on Reddit?

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At least 5 to 10 posts every day for at least 3 days.

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What are the two methods shown for finding subreddits?

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Using Reddit's search bar and using a free 'find related subreddit' tool.

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What is the first strategy for writing Reddit posts that go viral?

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Search a keyword, filter by 'new', and answer recent questions with valuable, AI-generated responses.

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What is the second strategy for creating viral Reddit posts?

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Create two Reddit accounts: one asks a top-ranking question, the other answers it with an AI-generated response.

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What is the recommended DM strategy for affiliate marketing on Reddit?

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Send a free YouTube video that provides value first, wait 24–48 hours, then send your affiliate link.

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Name three affiliate platforms mentioned in the video.

easy Click to reveal answer

ClickBank, Amazon Associates, and OfferVault (for CPA offers).

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Reddit's massive traffic opportunity

Over 3 billion monthly visits with more than 50% US traffic makes Reddit a highly valuable channel for affiliate marketers.

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Spamming leads to bans

Understanding that Reddit's spam filters and moderators punish link spam is the core mindset shift needed to succeed.

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The 5–10 posts for 3 days rule

A concrete, actionable engagement routine that builds karma and account reputation before any promotion.

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Value-first DM strategy

Sending a free YouTube video before an affiliate link builds trust and dramatically increases the chance of a conversion.

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ClickBank's 50%+ commissions

ClickBank offers over 50% commission per sale, making it one of the highest-paying affiliate networks mentioned.

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[00:02] now are already familiar with Reddit however for those who don't know Reddit is basically a social media platform where users can share content ask questions and engage in conversations across thousands of Niche communities

[00:17] called subreddit and each subreddit is dedicated to a specific topic from dedicated to a specific topic from gaming technology Fitness memes you can find lesser targeted commun ities as well like dog training retro video

[00:33] gaming Etc and on top of that it gets over 3 billion monthly visits as you can see right here and majority of it traffic coming from United States as you

[00:45] traffic coming from United States as you can see over 50% of the traffic we can surely tap into this platform and get a share of this traffic to our affiliate link or our website and we can make money in passive income now this is

[01:00] where it gets tricky the typical beginner will just grab their affiliate link and spam it across multiple subredits and get their account Bann then they come over to complain it doesn't work and this is because no

[01:14] social media platform out there will let you spam your affiliate links and get away with it and that is the reason why they put Advanced spam filters and moderators in place to prevent any sort of spam activity

[01:30] on the platform but I need to tell you this there are several ways to bypass these moderators and spam filters and this is what we'll be discussing in this video and I'm going to share with you how you can use these strategies to

[01:44] scale your affiliate marketing business first of all we'll go over how to create a Reddit account and secondly we'll talk about how to find subreddit I'm going to show you a special tool you can use to find thousands of subredits in one click

[02:00] and also I'm going to show you how to build trust on Reddit and I'm also going to show you how to write Reddit post that goes viral I'm going to show you how to use DM to scale your affiliate earnings and finally I'm going to share

[02:14] with you some of the best affiliate programs you can use to make money from Reddit so the very first thing you need to make money from Reddit affiliate marketing is to build a longlasting account which is going to help you scale

[02:29] your affiliate marketing business on the platform and to do that you want to head platform and to do that you want to head over to reddit.com or you can go over to your app store and look for the redit app so once you have the app installed

[02:42] all you need to do is to Simply come over to where it says login and you want to click on that so once you do that it's then going to bring you to this page and you want to then click on the sign up button and once you do that as

[02:55] you can see you can create your account using your Google mail or your Apple account or you can just simply type in any email of your choice right here and your account will be created right away so once you create an account on Reddit

[03:10] this is where you're going to see content from various subreddit you have joined as you can see I've joined the Retro Gaming subreddit and that is why I Retro Gaming subreddit and that is why I can see content from this subreddit okay

[03:24] I'm going to show you how to find subreddit using to method the first one is going to be using the search section of Reddit and the second method is going to be using a special tool which I'm

[03:38] going to be talking about in a moment so the very first method is to Simply come over to the search section right here and this is where you then want to type and this is where you then want to type in any keyword related to whatever Niche

[03:51] you want to join so for instance if we want to join the gaming n as an example we can simply type in gaming right here okay so if we type in gaming here you want to then click on search all right so you can see there are other keywords

[04:06] here we can go for as well so once you do that you want to then simply come over to where it says communities so as you can see here there are so many subredit we can join right here depending on the one you're looking for

[04:19] okay so this is really up to you and also you're going to see other related subredit here as well so this is the very first way you can use to find subredit and the second method is using this tool right here and I'm going to

[04:35] once you click on that link it's going to bring you to this website and as you can see here it's going to say find related subredit all you simply need to do is to typing a keyword here related to whatever subredit you are looking for

[04:50] so if I type in dogs as an example right here as you can see is going to show us the various subreddits related to that keyword all right and that is not all it's going to also show us other related subredits people who are interested in

[05:07] dogs also joined as you can see here these are also subredits related to dog you can see this one here we love dogs if I scroll down here we are even going to see very targeted braids of dog as well as you can see this one here for

[05:21] Golden Retriever and if I SC here again you can see there's also another subreddit for Pitbull so you can find even more targeted dog breid that you wish to Target if that is what you are looking to do so you're going to find a

[05:36] lot of subreddit right here using this website so the next thing we'll be looking at is how to build trust on Reddit you see trust is key here on Reddit people are we of spammers and generally they dislike anything that

[05:51] comes off saly which means you should only focus on building a reputable redit account as this is the only way you can actually make money on the platform you

[06:03] can do this by engaging with other users on that subredit and also creating valuable post as you don't want to be seen as a marketer who just want to make a sale okay and this is very easy to do all you need to do once you find content

[06:19] being posted on that subreddit an example this one right here you want to Simply go over to the comment section and see what people are talking about in that post so once you come over to the post all you just need to do is to

[06:34] basically go through the content and you can simply share your genuine opinion or your thoughts on that post and also you should not use a oneliner like that is cool or that is okay as that way you are not going to build any trust you just

[06:49] want to Simply share your genuine experience or your thoughts on that post you're going to get a lot of up vote and this way is going to help you build your redit account quickly all right and I'm also going to show you an example of

[07:04] this and you can see this account just replied to this comment leaving their thoughts right here you can see this a very short comment but very related one you can see people are up voting this comment and if I go over to the account

[07:17] you can see this account was created in 2023 and as you can see they've have so many commas on their account right here you can see over you can see over 3,500 this alone makes them a very

[07:31] trustworthy and reputable Reddit user and if they make any post people are likely to take them seriously you just have to come off genuine and give your thoughts on that post and you are going to build cam naturally without getting

[07:46] your post deleted by moderators or by regit itself so you want to basically engage with at least 5 to 10 post every single day for at least 3 days so the

[07:58] next step is writing Reddit post that then going to be including your affiliate links okay and to write redit post that go viral is very very easy I'm going to show you two strategies you can

[08:14] going to show you two strategies you can use to write redit post that goes viral okay so the very first one is coming over to the search section again and once you come over here you want to type in keyword like best product in your

[08:29] need or you want to type in how to solve of a problem in your Niche so for example if I come over to the search section and I typing how to lose weight so as you can see these are the results right here and here you are going to see

[08:44] various content you can see this one here from 3 years ago this was a post made 3 years ago you can see this one from 7 years ago but yet this content is still ranking even though it was posted years ago and that is to tell you this

[09:00] content gave a lot of value to people and as you can see the engagement as and as you can see the engagement as well over 2,700 comments on this post and that is why is ranking high on the search results so now what you're going

[09:13] to be doing once you come over to this page is to come over to relevance so once you come over to relevance you want to click on new and once you do this this is where you are going to see post people are making recently about this

[09:27] keyword and as you can see here just 3 minutes ago someone made this post on this subreddit so if I keep scrolling down here you can see another question right here this person talking about eating disorder in this sub you can see

[09:42] 6 minutes ago there's no comment on this post you are going to see a lot of related content to this keyword that you can answer right away and there's a very high chance you're going to get rank as well like this other post right here so

[09:58] if I come back to relevance again you're going to see the more questions you answer the likelihood you are also going to get ranked with one of your answers okay so if I go over to new answers again all you simply want to do from

[10:13] here is to click on the post so if I take the first one here as an example again you want to Simply copy this question so once you copy the question question so once you copy the question you can simply take advantage of AI to

[10:26] generate answers for you you don't have to do the work yourself and you can use dpse to do this and I've created a detailed video of how to use dips to generate thousands of leads for affiliate marketing so I highly

[10:40] recommend to check out that video so once you come over to dps.com which is absolutely free by the way you want to come over to the message section and then you want to paste in the question like this you don't want to add in an

[10:53] like this you don't want to add in an additional text like this to tell dips what you want it to do so you want d seek to basically generate an answer for you all you then need to do from here is to click on send all right so as you can

[11:06] see in the couple of seconds deeps has generated an answer for us that we can simply copy and paste and you can see right here this a very detailed answer related to that question as you can see it even included a meal plan as well as

[11:23] you can see this is a very related answer to that problem so all you simply need to do is to copy be the answer then you can simply come back to that subreddit so you can come over here to where it says add a comment and you can

[11:36] simply come over and P in that answer right here like this so you can basically go through the answer and make sure everything looks good and also you can add your affiliate link if you want to do that as well so the second

[11:50] strategy is to Simply create the questions yourself so you can come over here and highlight these questions that are ranking on on the top of the search like this so this one here is saying what is the easiest way to lose weight

[12:05] so you can easily come over to deeps again and you can type in that question like this what is the easiest way to lose weight then you want to ask deeps to generate 10 captivating variation of that title and you want to click on

[12:22] enter so as you can see right here it has generated 10 variation of that title can use to basically rank on Reddit so what you're going to be doing here is to

[12:34] what you're going to be doing here is to create two separate Reddit account okay example you don't have to use all the title but you want to Simply take a look and look for the best title okay you can see this one here that says how to lose

[12:47] weight fast easy tips that easy tips you can use to start today all right so you want to create two separate Reddit accounts and you want to use one Reddit account to ask this question and you want to use another edit account to

[13:02] answer that question so all you simply need to do is to copy the question paste it in the message section and deeps is going to generate the answer for you which you can then use to reply that question I hope this makes sense so if

[13:17] you use this two strategy there's a very high Chance some of your post are going high Chance some of your post are going to rank on this keyword as well so the next thing I'm going to be showing you is the power of using redit DM I can't

[13:30] stress this enough this is one of the best ways you can use to make money on redit okay so once you're on any subreddit so I'm going to be taking the Drop Shipping subredit as an example okay so you want to scroll down and look

[13:45] for post that are getting a lot of comments All right so if I come over to this one here as an example this is a comment of someone asking how to make money with Drop Shipping and I can tell you there are so many Drop Shipping

[13:58] costes is out there you can promote and get a conion all right so all you simply need to do from here is to over on the profile and you want to then click on chat so once you click on chat as you can see it's going to pop up this

[14:13] message section and this is where you then want to reach out to this account and also you want to make sure to give value up front before you send your affiliate link so you want to make sure to send a message that is going to

[14:27] to send a message that is going to Captivate their attention to open the DM all right and to do this you and to do this you want to Simply go over to YouTube this is the trick right here so once you come over to YouTube you want

[14:40] to look for videos in that Niche an example of that is how to make money with Drop Shipping and here you are going to see a lot of people ranking for this keyword grab the link to one of these videos all right so I'm going to

[14:53] take this video as an example and I'm going to copy the link to this video you can send a very simple message like like this hey I'm into Drop Shipping myself and I found this YouTube video it goes over everything you need to make money

[15:06] with Drop Shipping and you can then send them the link there's a very high chance they going to open that message because you are providing them value without promoting any product so once you send out this DM they are likely to open the

[15:21] DM because you are not promoting any product you are simply sharing a free YouTube video that will help them out then you want to wait for 25 4 to 48 hours before you then send them your affiliate link and the reason you want

[15:34] to do this after 28 hours is because you want to gain their trust for so that they see you as someone who actually cares about the community and genuinely giving useful information that could help others out so after 28 hours you

[15:49] then want to grab an affiliate product in that Niche and send it to them and there's a very high chance they also going to open it as well because they already know you've given them follow previously so this is how you can use

[16:01] Reddit to send people affiliate link without looking spamming and now you may be wondering where do you find affiliate product you can actually promote to people and make money on Reddit there are so many affiliate networks out there

[16:15] you can use one of the best one out there is clickbank.com you can get over there is clickbank.com you can get over 50% for every sale you make on ClickBank and also another platform you can use is Amazon associate there are so many

[16:29] products on Amazon you can promote to people and make money as well and if you don't want to do this you can also take advantage of CPA marketing as well as advantage of CPA marketing as well as you can come over to offer vault.com and

[16:42] you can find various CPA offers you can promote to people all they need to do is to enter their email address install an app and you make money so now that you affiliate marketing then I highly recommend to click this video on your

[16:57] screen where I showed my my 35 days result using redit to promote affiliate result using redit to promote affiliate products

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