A Step-by-step guide for doing affiliate marketing on Reddit
Step 1. Find a product or service to promote.
To get started, find a great product or service to promote. Choose products or services that solve a real pain point.
Instead of choosing random products or services to promote, choose ones you already use. That way, you have first-hand experience with the product/service; you can explain it better, and it will be much more convincing for people to buy.
The more people buy it, the more money you will make, and there is no limit on how much you can earn.
For example, I already use Hostinger to buy domains and host websites.
I have hosted multiple websites on Hostinger, and when I worked with clients, I recommended they buy web hosting plans and domain names on Hostinger.
Hostinger lets clients invite me using my email, which gives me role-based access to the specific products and services they want me to use. This way, they don’t have to share their account password with me.
They’ll let me access their web hosting on Hostinger so I can deploy websites, run tests, and configure everything.
Because I already have experience with Hostinger, I can answer questions about Hostinger’s services, which helps me convince clients to choose Hostinger.
You should do the same. If you use a VPN, antivirus program, or any other service, chances are they too have an affiliate program.
Empire Flippers made a list of 200+ Top Recurring Affiliate programs you can use as a starting point.
Step 2. Monitoring Keywords on Reddit.
Once you have the affiliate link for a product or service, the next step is to find people talking about problems which the product or service could effectively solve.
For example, if you are promoting the Hostinger affiliate program, you can monitor keywords such as “Web Hosting”, “VPS”, “Domain name”, etc.
Monitoring keywords in real time is easy with the Keyword Finder for Old Reddit, which tracks fresh posts on Reddit and scans for the target keyword.
Open the Firefox browser and search for “Keyword Finder for Old Reddit Firefox Addon”.
Install it and pin it to the toolbar.
Visit https://old.reddit.com/r/all/new/, click the Keyword Finder extension icon, enter your target keyword (for example, “Winter Jacket”), and click Start.
Enable auto-refresh to automatically refresh the tab to continuously collect relevant posts in real time.
It may take some time to find relevant posts; meanwhile, you can switch to another tab to work or leave the computer running.
If you are in a hurry, paste your target keyword into the Reddit search bar and sort the results by the past hour. You will get a bunch of posts instantly to engage with.
Bookmark https://old.reddit.com/r/all/new/ so you can access it easily later.
Step 3 – Promoting affiliate products/services
As the extension finds relevant Reddit posts and lists them, click the post title and leave a helpful answer with your affiliate link.
With this method, your comment will be at the top because you are the first to comment on that post, which also grabs the attention of the person who made it; they will receive a notification that you’ve commented on their post.
Reddit posts often rank on Google. When people search on Google, they might land on those Reddit posts in future, and if your comment is convincing and helpful, some might click the affiliate link and buy.
Many affiliate programmes immediately place a cookie in the user’s browser, ensuring you earn a commission even if they check out 10 to 15 days later.
As you track more relevant posts and engage on Reddit, you can drive more clicks on affiliate links; some will buy the product or service through them, and your commission will continue to increase over time.
I recommend creating a blog or YouTube channel to promote the affiliate product/services. You can review the product, provide tutorials on how to use it, and tell your readers/viewers how it can solve their problem. This will greatly increase your chances of making sales.
Then embed the affiliate link in your blog post or YouTube channel description, and instead of pasting the affiliate link directly in Reddit comments, link to your YouTube channel or blog post.
That way, it will be less obvious that you are doing this just to promote an affiliate product, and the moderator and the Reddit spam filter will be less likely to remove your comment.
A blog or YouTube channel isn’t just a platform to promote stuff; it also builds authority. Many billion-dollar companies have affiliate programs, but to get accepted, you need a blog or a solid social media following. They will review your content on your blog or social media account before accepting your application.
If you already have a blog or YouTube channel and have experience in promoting products and services for brands, I highly recommend checking out Impact.com
Earning potential: Your earnings depend on the commission rate offered by the affiliate program you choose and how many sales you make. You can expect to make anywhere between £10 and £300 in your first month.
Wrapping up
I have covered the 3 simple steps for doing affiliate marketing on Reddit, and I hope you understood them.
If you are super lazy and don’t want to write comments yourself, use the pro version of Keyword Finder for Old Reddit.
It lets you generate helpful comments, automatically embed your affiliate link, and auto-fill the comment in a Reddit post. All you need to do is click submit.
Honestly, I will not recommend using the Pro version of Keyword Finder for Old Reddit. The comments it generates often sound like a sales guy, and as I said earlier, Redditors hate marketers. Sooo… It’s up to you, mate.
Edit: The pro version of Keyword Finder for Old Reddit isn’t published yet; I hope it will be available by December 2026.
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