Can I ask a question about email marketing or SEO here?
Yes, if it is genuinely relevant to web marketing and contains no advertising, because the rules only ban non relevant, advertising, and astroturfing posts.
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r/webmarketing rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/webmarketing: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 42,939
- Verified
- September 29, 2026
- Category
- Digital marketing practitioners
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- Spam: Non-relevant, advertising, and/or astroturfing posts will result in ban. This is your only warning.
- Surveys and/or homework/assignment help: Don't post them.
Works well
- A specific question about email marketing, like how to improve open rates on a campaign you are actually running
- A short writeup of an SEO experiment you ran, with what you tried and what happened, with no link attached
- A discussion post about a social media tactic and where it worked or failed for you
- A question about online PR or outreach written as a practitioner asking peers, not a brand talking to customers
- A lesson learned from a digital marketing campaign, framed around the insight rather than the tool you used
Avoid
- Posting anything that reads like advertising, because rule “Spam” says advertising posts get a ban with no second chance
- Dropping your link and hoping nobody notices, since astroturfing is named in the same rule
- Posting a survey or questionnaire to gather market research
- Asking the community to do your homework or a school assignment
- Sharing something off topic, like a general business question with no web marketing angle
- Assuming a ban warning is a bluff, because the rule says this is your only warning
What r/webmarketing Is For
r/webmarketing is a professional community for people working in web and digital marketing. The description names email marketing, online PR, social media, and SEO as core topics, and it ends with an open ended and more, so adjacent digital marketing topics fit too. The people posting here are practitioners, not hobbyists scrolling for deals. They expect posts that a working marketer would find useful or worth discussing. The rules back this up. Anything non relevant, advertising, or astroturfed gets a ban, and surveys plus homework help are not allowed at all. So this is a room for real marketing talk, not a place to drop your link.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
Two rules decide everything here. The first is “Spam”, which says non relevant, advertising, and astroturfing posts will result in a ban, and that this is your only warning. The second is “Surveys and/or homework/assignment help”, which says do not post them. So the bar is simple. Your post has to be relevant to web marketing, it cannot advertise anything, it cannot pretend to be an organic discussion when it is really a promo, and it cannot be a survey or a school assignment. The one warning framing is worth pausing on. Many communities remove a post and move on. This one says a spam post can end your account's access entirely.
What To Post
A good post here is a genuine web marketing topic that invites discussion. Share a lesson you learned running email campaigns, ask a specific question about SEO or social media, or walk through a digital marketing problem you are trying to solve. Keep it relevant to the topics in the description, like email marketing, online PR, social media, or SEO. Write it like a practitioner talking to other practitioners, not like a brand talking to customers. If your own product comes up, mention it plainly in the context of the lesson rather than making the post about it, because rule “Spam” treats advertising and astroturfing as ban worthy. When in doubt, strip the promo and keep the insight.
What To Avoid
The fastest way out is rule “Spam”. Advertising, non relevant posts, and astroturfing all result in a ban, and the rule states this is your only warning. That means no product launches, no link drops, no fake case studies built to promote your thing, and no posts about topics that have nothing to do with web marketing. Rule “Surveys and/or homework/assignment help” bans surveys and homework or assignment help, so do not post a questionnaire asking marketers for their opinions and do not ask the community to do your class project. The policy brief repeats the same list, spam, advertising, non relevant posts, surveys, and homework help all get removed.
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Common questions about r/webmarketing
Can I share my own product or tool?
No. Rule “Spam” says advertising posts result in a ban, and the policy brief confirms advertising and spam are banned.
Can I run a survey to learn what marketers want?
No. Rule “Surveys and/or homework/assignment help” says do not post them.
Can I ask for help with a marketing class assignment?
No. The same rule covers homework and assignment help, so a student project post will be removed.
Are links allowed?
The rules do not say links are banned, but a link that functions as advertising falls under rule “Spam”, so be careful with anything self serving.
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