r/SEO

The SEO Authority

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: 517,355
Created: 2008
Posts a day: 13
Avg comments, top posts this week: 38

r/SEO is a Reddit community with 517,355 members, created in 2008. It averaged about 13 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 14 and an average of 38 comments each. Seo, google and content are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 23:00 UTC, and most often on a Tuesday.

Only approved members can post in r/SEO.

Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

What people ask

45Client wants AEO/GEO now, never done it before. how do you actually go about it?134 comments · September 30, 2026
50How can I recover my SEO after publishing a lot of AI-generated blog posts?126 comments · September 28, 2026
58How to get a ton of backlinks the legal way?105 comments · September 25, 2026
51How to remove fake 1 star Google reviews? Has anyone actually had success?103 comments · October 11, 2026
37Claude Watermark / AI Text : Should I Hand-Type All Articles?98 comments · September 24, 2026
23Looking for alternatives for Ahrefs & Semrush86 comments · October 13, 2026

Common words in titles

seo 21
google 15
content 5
website 5
impressions 4
not 4
search 4
semrush 4
site 4
aeo 3
ahrefs 3
backlinks 3

Best time to post

23:00 UTC · 3 top posts
00:00 UTC · 2 top posts
03:00 UTC · 2 top posts
Tuesday · 7 top posts
Friday · 5 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 25 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

Rules

Follow Reddit Content Policy
No Links Allowed
No Work Offers
Must be related to SEO
Communicate kindly
No Spamming
No Soliciting and "Asking to DM"
No Blogs, No Guides, No News, No Apps
No Low Quality Posts, Case Studies etc

How to post in r/SEO without breaking its rules

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Member growth

We started recording r/SEO member counts on October 18, 2026. Growth will show here once we have a few weeks of history.

Get this data from the API

Every number on this page comes from ChatterAPI's Reddit endpoints and is refreshed about once a week. You can pull the same data for any subreddit from your own code or AI agent.

curl "https://chatterapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddits/SEO" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHATTERAPI_KEY"

{
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/",
    "name": "SEO",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "The SEO Authority",
    "createdAt": "2008-03-06T00:28:34.000Z",
    "description": "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.",
    "subscribers": 517355
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

Recorded response, October 18, 2026, trimmed.

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Questions about r/SEO

How many members does r/SEO have?

r/SEO had 517,355 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.

How active is r/SEO?

Based on its newest posts, it got about 13 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts averaged 38 comments each.

When is the best time to post in r/SEO?

This month's top posts in r/SEO went up most often around 23:00 UTC, and most often on a Tuesday. That's when popular posts were published, so use it as a starting point, not a rule.

Can I get r/SEO data through an API?

Yes. Call GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/SEO for members, rules and description, and GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/SEO/posts for its posts. Each call costs 2 credits, and new accounts get 100 free credits.