Using reddit
Subject: Using reddit
From: Coates Bateman <cfbateman@publicpostinc.com>
Date: 9/16/09, 13:47
To: Coates Bateman <cfbateman@publicpostinc.com>
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coates@trueslant.com

If you haven't already, I would encourage you to create a reddit account.

We've been speaking to on of the administrators and here's some advice

Try to keep self-promotional submissions down to about one per day (with some room for smoothing). It's okay to delete and re-submit one that didn't do very well, within reason, but this should be combat being overlooked, not to combat being down-voted.
 
Don't submit everything your site publishes, try to keep it to the "cream of the crop", or the ones that you think will actually be liked by the community.
 
It's okay to bug the moderators of the reddits to which you're submitting to ask them how you're doing, they're generally happy to help
 
Shilling and trying to cheat with multiple accounts will get you banned.

I'd like to add a few things:

- When creating an account name, please don't make it your name or your page's name. The reddit community does not respond very well to this.

- I would suggest that you post 3-5 stories from outside sites to every 1 of your own posts (perhaps post the headlines you've grabbed?)

- Interact with the community on reddit. It helps. Significantly. 

Reddit can be a very good source of traffic if you play be their (somewhat arbitrary, sometimes frustrating) rules.

Let me know if you have any questions.
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coates bateman
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