What the Heck is Reddit?

February 10th, 2009

by Amy Stevens Adams

According to Wikipedia, Reddit is a ‘social news website’. Anyone can post an article, and just like Digg, you can vote on articles. Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, declares that Reddit ‘is a news website where readers choose the news, not editors.’

The difference I found between Reddit and other similar sites, is that Reddit seems to have much more eccentric, ‘alternative’ posts. It seems more fun, gossipy and entertaining than other social news sites. As always, my opinion is just my own and I encourage you to check it out for yourself. However, while researching Reddit for this article, I got sucked-in to more than a few ‘interesting’ posts.

Real quick, here’s how to set up an account and get going with Reddit;

1. Go to http://www.reddit.com/ and click ‘register in seconds’ in the upper right corner.

2. Register an account. This is BY FAR the easiest registration process I’ve ever encountered. You’re not even required to give an email address if you don’t want. It took me 10 seconds.

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3. On the homepage, click ‘Submit a link’.

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I submitted yesterday’s CCBbuzz article. Again, this was simple and took me less than a minute.

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That’s it! If people read and like your article, they’ll vote it up. Voting is easy too, just read an article on the Reddit site and either vote it up or down by clicking the arrows on the left side of the title.

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The articles with the most votes go to the top of the homepage. Just like any other site, if your article gains momentum and is read and liked, you have the potential to gain massive traffic to your site. After all, isn’t that always the goal?

Reddit has lots more features, so I encourage you to explore the site… if for no other reason than to find intriguing articles!

Reddit is one more way to share your content and drive traffic to your blog. It’s easy and fun to use.

-Amy Stevens Adams of Cape Cod Branding

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