r/SEO

Updated Aug 28

The leading authority on all things SEO: AI SEO, GEO, LLM SEO, Technical SEO, Content SEO and SEO Architecture. Bring your ideas, problems, thoughts, questions, issues and we'll work it out together. A helpful and thoughtful community for site owners, people who manage SEO and everything in between.

Members

508,138

508K

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Published rules

9

2 mention promotion — quoted below

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Tracking since Aug 8 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

What r/SEO's rules say about promotion

2 of 9 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

  1. No Spamming

    rule 6 of 9

    No Spam, Self Promotion, Advertising, Brand Awareness etc including branded content, news roundups, posting how-to guides, community promotion
  2. No Soliciting and "Asking to DM"

    rule 7 of 9

    No Soliciting and "Asking to DM". Asking people to DM you will get your post/comment removed and will likely get you banned after a few times

The other 7

  • Follow Reddit Content Policy
  • No Links Allowed
  • No Work Offers
  • Must be related to SEO
  • Communicate kindly
  • No Blogs, No Guides, No News, No Apps
  • No Low Quality Posts, Case Studies etc

Read from r/SEO’s published rules on May 28. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.

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r/SEO — frequently asked

How many members does r/SEO have?

r/SEO has 508,138 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 28. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/SEO growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/SEO yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 8; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/SEO?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/SEO yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

Can I promote my product in r/SEO?

r/SEO publishes 9 rules and 2 of them address promotion. The first, “No Spamming”, says: No Spam, Self Promotion, Advertising, Brand Awareness etc including branded content, news roundups, posting how-to guides, community promotion Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

How do I monitor r/SEO for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/SEO into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/SEO's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/SEO's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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