How to market on r/SocialMediaMarketing
Can you promote on r/SocialMediaMarketing?
Yes, within limits. A post that mentions your product has to be useful on its own. Plain promotion gets removed. What the rules say:
“Avoid excessive self-promotion, spammy posts, or advertisements.”
“This includes link spam and promotional content that does not add value to the community.”
Rule 2: No Excessive Self Promotion.
The rules
As the moderators wrote them, shortened where they run long.
- Be Civil.While disagreements are natural, we emphasize respectful and constructive interactions here. Personal attacks are not tolerated.
- No Excessive Self Promotion.Avoid excessive self-promotion, spammy posts, or advertisements. This includes link spam and promotional content that does not add value to the community. If your comment history shows you plugging the same link or…
- No Social Media Account Selling.This is r/socialmediamarketing, not r/socialmediamarketplace. Anyone selling social media accounts here will be permanently banned.
- Please keep Job Opportunities and Service Advertisements in their Monthly Threads.To maintain the organization and focus of our community discussions, we require that all job opportunities and advertisements for social media marketing services be posted exclusively in the respective weekly threads.
Full text on Reddit: r/SocialMediaMarketing rules.
What people asked this week
99 of the last 189 posts on r/SocialMediaMarketing (the past 5 days) asked a question or for a recommendation. Here are 12, starting with people asking for a tool, a service or someone to hire.
- For those managing Facebook and Instagram for a small business, which tools do you use to schedule posts and manage everything efficiently? Have you…r/SocialMediaMarketing · 21 Oct
- Does alt text in posts help the algorithms understand your content more?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 24 Oct
- Need Help Improving Your Website SEO and Online Visibility?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 24 Oct
- What are your top 10 social media platforms, and which one is actually worth using in 2026?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 24 Oct
- Should I go with both Urdu & English as a Pakistani SMM?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 24 Oct
- what actually got your first 1,000 followers?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 24 Oct
- Does adding a caption, hashtags, and location actually help the Reels algorithm push your content?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 23 Oct
- Is opinly is legit for earning?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 23 Oct
- What Skills Should a Beginner Learn First in Social Media Management?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 23 Oct
- Do these types of jobs (services) exist?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 23 Oct
- How do you use Snapchat to drive sales for a women’s fashion brand in the GCC?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 23 Oct
- How can small businesses use social media marketing to attract more customers?r/SocialMediaMarketing · 23 Oct
How to show up here without getting banned
- Help first, mention later. Answer questions on r/SocialMediaMarketing for a while before you bring up your own product, and when you do, say you made it.
- Use the Monthly Thread. From the rules: “Please keep Job Opportunities and Service Advertisements in their Monthly Threads.”
- Answer questions. 52% of recent posts on r/SocialMediaMarketing ask a question or for a recommendation. A useful answer is the safest way to get noticed.
- Read the sidebar and pinned posts. Moderators often add rules there, and rules change. Check r/SocialMediaMarketing's before your first post.
More on how this works across Reddit: Reddit's self-promotion rules, explained and the full Reddit marketing playbook.
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Questions
Can I post my startup on r/SocialMediaMarketing?+
Only within limits. A post that mentions your product has to be useful on its own. Plain promotion gets removed. Rule 2 says: “Avoid excessive self-promotion, spammy posts, or advertisements.”
How active is r/SocialMediaMarketing?+
r/SocialMediaMarketing has about 156k members and averaged 39 new posts a day over the last four weeks. Of its latest 189 posts, 99 asked a question or for a recommendation.
Does r/SocialMediaMarketing allow links?+
The rules don't ban links, but a link to your own product still counts as self-promotion, so the self-promotion rules apply.
What do people ask about on r/SocialMediaMarketing?+
Recent examples: “For those managing Facebook and Instagram for a small business, which tools do you use to…”, “Does alt text in posts help the algorithms understand your content more?” and “Need Help Improving Your Website SEO and Online Visibility?”. The full list of this week's questions is on this page and refreshes daily.