r/bigseo rules, stats, and what to post

r/bigseo is a community built to foster growth and knowledge about SEO, and the description says it is run by professional SEOs. That last part matters most for you as a founder. The people reading your post do this work for a living, so the bar for what counts as useful is high. The rules make this plain. Content that is unlikely to help an experienced SEO professional gets removed as beginner material, and posts that contribute nothing of value or look like blog spam get removed as low quality. This is a room for working practitioners talking shop, not a place to introduce yourself or your product.

The rule that decides most marketing outcomes here is “Sales, self-promotion, link-exchange, guest-posting offers, affiliate links”. It bans offers of services, for hire posts, link exchange, guest posting, affiliate links, free tools, beta tests, product launches, and any version of asking people to DM you. “No AI generated content” bans AI-generated posts and images, though discussing AI tools is fine. “Low quality post or comment” removes posts that contribute nothing of value or read as blog spam. “Beginner content” removes anything unlikely to help an experienced SEO professional, including homework and interview help. “This is not a news subreddit.” means you cannot copy and paste from blogs or news sites, and moderators may remove news links at their discretion. “Headline/Link Only Post” means a bare link or headline gets removed, so you must put effort into the post. “No link shorteners” and “Multiple posts in a day” are enforced by automod, and “Posts must be in English” sets the language bar. “Clickbait” and “Not about SEO” round out the removal reasons.

A good post here is a substantive writeup aimed at experienced practitioners. Think of a real test you ran, a technical problem you solved, or a detailed breakdown of something you observed in search, written in your own words with enough context that a professional learns something from it. If you include a link, surround it with genuine analysis and effort, because a headline or link on its own is subject to removal. Write the post yourself in English, since AI-generated text is banned and posts must be in English. If you want to talk about an AI tool as a topic, that is allowed, just do not use AI to generate the post. Post once, not several times in a day, and keep everything clearly about SEO.

The fastest removals come from promotion. Do not offer services free or paid, do not post for hire, do not propose link exchanges or guest posts, do not use affiliate links, do not announce a launch, and never write DM me for a link or help. Do not post AI-generated text or images, even if you edited them afterward, because the rule bans AI-generated content outright while allowing discussion of AI tools. Do not copy and paste from blogs or news sites. Do not post a bare link or headline with no effort behind it. Do not use link shorteners, do not post more than once in a day, and do not post in a language other than English. Skip beginner questions, homework, and interview help, since those are explicitly called out as removable. Skip clickbait headlines, and keep everything on the topic of SEO.

What stands out to me is how blunt rule 5 is, right down to naming ProductHunt launches and DM requests as banned. That tells me this community has seen every flavor of pitch and closed the door early. The AI rule is also ahead of most communities I write about, so drafting your post with a chatbot and pasting it here is a fast way to lose the room. My honest read is that this is a place where a genuinely useful writeup earns respect, and everything else gets removed.