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Originally Posted by Petra
I don't think it's all crap traffic, but I do agree if you go in thinking you're going to get high converting traffic you're going to be sorely disappointed.
And, I have to agree 100% about reddit traffic being fairly anti ads/money making off reddit. Especially the porn folk over there. But, there are subreddits that are very much into supporting new ventures and don't mind at all if someone starting up or advertising something new does so. They're pretty rare though and seem to be more exclusive hobby subreddits.
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This.. Reddit doesn't work well for traditional marketing. It's not a site you go dump some gallery links to and expect to make money. I have seen cam girls whom work it pretty well as well as girls selling panties (legality of that is shaky/risky though, at least in the US).
It is however pretty awesome kickstarter type traffic source for people with unique items. There was a guy a few months ago making miniature flower arrangements out of used bullets. He was getting so many sales off Reddit he was able to turn it into a full time business.
I saw another guy whom made a thin leather wallet and was the same sort of deal.. He got thousands of dollars worth of sales from Reddit. Then of course there is the site imgur.com, that image hosting site has it's roots starting from Reddit, the guy whom built it, built it as a image platform for Reddit users and obviously it's worked very well for him.
Marketing via direct sales is kinda hard though and you have to be careful not to burn yourself by over doing it.