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r/bigseo

Big SEO - A Reddit Community for SEOs

Welcome! This subreddit was created with the intent to foster growth and knowledge about SEO. This is the largest and most reputable SEO subreddit run by professional SEOs on Reddit. We encourage you check the sidebar and rules before posting. See our full rules at https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/wiki/rules.

Members
142,628
Created
2013
Posts a day
1
Avg comments, top posts this week
17

r/bigseo is a Reddit community with 142,628 members, created in 2013. It averaged about 1 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 7 and an average of 17 comments each. Seo, google and pages are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 13:00 UTC, and most often on a Monday.

Only approved members can post in r/bigseo.

Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

Top posts this week

  1. 13My site’s index count used to be around 7,000 pages, but it has been steadily dropping and is now down to 2,000. I have no idea what the issue is; I ran a crawl and received an excellent score, and I’ve been addressing the issues flagged by Google.33 comments · October 15, 2026
  2. 11SEO Help Weekly Mega Thread9 comments · October 12, 2026
  3. 6GSC Performance report: custom date range comparison showing end date as 1970-01-01, Apply button disabled. Anyone else?9 comments · October 14, 2026
  4. 7GSC impressions tripled during the Sept spam update, then dropped the day it ended, with zero extra clicks. Test or bots?22 comments · October 13, 2026
  5. 5Local SEO for Service-Area Businesses vs. Businesses With a Physical Location — What’s Different?13 comments · October 14, 2026

Top posts this month

  1. 22Is this keyword stuffing?33 comments · October 1, 2026
  2. 16Domain migration from old high-ranking site: 4 months later, most pages are still not indexed39 comments · October 7, 2026
  3. 14Indexed in Google but not in Bing29 comments · September 21, 2026
  4. 13My site’s index count used to be around 7,000 pages, but it has been steadily dropping and is now down to 2,000. I have no idea what the issue is; I ran a crawl and received an excellent score, and I’ve been addressing the issues flagged by Google.33 comments · October 15, 2026
  5. 12SEO Help Weekly Mega Thread7 comments · October 5, 2026
  6. 10SEO Help Weekly Mega Thread3 comments · September 28, 2026
  7. 10SEO Help Weekly Mega Thread9 comments · October 12, 2026
  8. 9Google Choosing www version as canonical and isn't indexing the new non-www16 comments · September 28, 2026
  9. 10Google is considering pages with inventory as Soft 40436 comments · September 24, 2026
  10. 8Lost 70%+ organic traffic after December Core Update16 comments · October 9, 2026

What people ask

  1. 16Domain migration from old high-ranking site: 4 months later, most pages are still not indexed39 comments · October 7, 2026
  2. 21Is this keyword stuffing?33 comments · October 1, 2026
  3. 6Anyone hit by the June spam update seeing changes during the September update?28 comments · September 29, 2026
  4. 6Anyone else seeing a page rank in top 3 position only for it to drop out of 100 (then return)?23 comments · October 6, 2026
  5. 4GSC impressions tripled during the Sept spam update, then dropped the day it ended, with zero extra clicks. Test or bots?22 comments · October 13, 2026
  6. 5DFW Roofing company - GMB rankings?17 comments · October 9, 2026

Common words in titles

  • seo 6
  • google 5
  • pages 5
  • mega 4
  • indexed 3
  • rankings 3
  • site 3
  • update 3
  • bing 2
  • canonical 2
  • domain 2
  • during 2

Best time to post

  • 13:00 UTC · 5 top posts
  • 11:00 UTC · 3 top posts
  • 07:00 UTC · 2 top posts
  • Monday · 7 top posts
  • Friday · 4 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 22 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

Rules

  1. Beginner content
  2. Low quality post or comment
  3. This is not a news subreddit.
  4. Not about SEO
  5. Sales, self-promotion, link-exchange, guest-posting offers, affiliate links
  6. No AI generated content
  7. Clickbait
  8. No Jerks. Don't be sexist, ageist, racist. We are an inclusive community.
  9. Headline/Link Only Post
  10. Multiple posts in a day
  11. No link shorteners
  12. Posts must be in English

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Member growth

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{
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/",
    "name": "bigseo",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "Big SEO - A Reddit Community for SEOs",
    "createdAt": "2013-03-04T21:22:19.000Z",
    "description": "Welcome! This subreddit was created with the intent to foster growth and knowledge about SEO. This is the largest and most reputable SEO subreddit run by professional SEOs on Reddit.\n\nWe encourage you check the sidebar and rules before posting.\n\nSee our full rules at https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/wiki/rules.",
    "subscribers": 142628
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

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Questions about r/bigseo

How many members does r/bigseo have?
r/bigseo had 142,628 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.
How active is r/bigseo?
Based on its newest posts, it got about 1 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts averaged 17 comments each.
When is the best time to post in r/bigseo?
This month's top posts in r/bigseo went up most often around 13:00 UTC, and most often on a Monday. That's when popular posts were published, so use it as a starting point, not a rule.
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