A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/SocialMediaMarketing: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
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This community is for social media marketing professionals. The public description says it is a place to share industry-relevant information, discuss best practices, and provide constructive critique. So the people posting here are SMM practitioners, marketers, and people who work in social media for a living, and the room rewards practical, industry-level conversation rather than self-promotion. A founder whose product serves marketers can fit in, but only as someone contributing to that conversation first.
Four rules decide whether a marketing-adjacent post survives here. "Be Civil." means no personal attacks, even when you disagree hard. "No Deceptive Promotion or Manipulation" bans astroturfing and coordinated boosting, and it explicitly warns that a comment history plugging the same link or service with no other discussion will get your post or comment deleted. "No Social Media Account Selling." is the sharpest one, since selling accounts earns a permanent ban. "Please keep Job Opportunities and Service Advertisements in their Monthly Threads." means any job post or service ad outside the designated threads is out of place. For a founder, the second and fourth rules matter most, because they define the line between participating and promoting.
A good post here is industry-relevant information or a best practices discussion, exactly what the description asks for. As a founder, share something you actually learned about social media marketing, like what worked and what failed in your own campaigns, and invite critique. You can also ask for constructive feedback on a strategy or a piece of content, since the community exists partly for critique. If you want to advertise a service or post a job, put it in the designated monthly thread and nowhere else. The safest path is to build a comment history of real discussion first, then share your work as one part of that participation, never as the whole thing.
Do not post job opportunities or service advertisements outside the monthly threads, because the rule "Please keep Job Opportunities and Service Advertisements in their Monthly Threads." requires them to stay there. Do not sell social media accounts, since "No Social Media Account Selling." says that gets you permanently banned. Do not astroturf, which means posing as a regular user to promote something for personal or financial gain, and do not run coordinated or inauthentic activity to artificially boost anything, all under "No Deceptive Promotion or Manipulation". The same rule warns that if your comment history shows you plugging the same link or service over and over with no other discussion, you should assume your post or comment will be deleted. Finally, keep things civil, because "Be Civil." does not tolerate personal attacks.
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No. The rule named "Please keep Job Opportunities and Service Advertisements in their Monthly Threads." requires all job opportunities and service advertisements to go exclusively in the designated monthly threads.
Yes, but only inside the designated monthly thread, and only if it is a genuine job opportunity rather than a disguised ad.
The rules say that if your comment history shows you plugging the same link or service over and over with no other discussion, you should safely assume your post or comment will be deleted. Join real discussions too.
No. The rule named "No Social Media Account Selling." states that anyone selling social media accounts here will be permanently banned.
Yes, if it is honest and you participate as a real member. The community exists for professionals to share industry-relevant information, discuss best practices, and provide constructive critique.
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