What's Working in r/bigseothis month
A marketer's read on r/bigseo — working SEOs discussing tactics, algorithm updates, and client war stories. Not a list of top posts (Reddit has that): this is what the r/bigseo crowd engages with and how strict the entry bar is, from aggregated statistics we refresh weekly.
Analyzed September 14, 2026 from the top 36 posts of the last month
Post patterns with traction
Every top post of the month, bucketed by the shape of its title. Share tells you what the community feeds on; median score tells you what it rewards.
| Pattern | Share | Median score | Median comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everything else | 50% (18) | 6 | 10 |
| Question / help posts | 47.2% (17) | 9 | 15 |
| Milestone / numbers posts (revenue, users, growth) | 2.8% (1) | 4 | 27 |
Benchmark: the median top-of-month post lands 8 points and 13 comments; the top decile clears 16 points. Median winning title: ~10 words.
When winning posts go up
Publish timing of the month's top posts (all times UTC). Correlation, not causation — but posting into a dead window is a self-inflicted handicap.
Best days
- Monday — 27.8%
- Friday — 19.4%
- Thursday — 13.9%
Best hours (UTC)
- 1PM — 16.7%
- 2PM — 11.1%
- 12PM — 8.3%
Strongest windows
- Monday 1PM UTC
- Wednesday 9AM UTC
- Monday 2PM UTC
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The entry bar before you post
Posting friction we can read from the community's public rules and sidebar — estimated difficulty: Medium.
- Stated requirement: To remove spam, this subreddit requires that contributors' accounts are over 1 day old and have at least 3 comment karma.
- Stated requirement: To remove spam, this subreddit requires that contributors' accounts are over 1 day old and have at least 3 comment karma.
- Stated requirement: 100 Karma or Ask!
The community lists 12 rules — read them in full before your first post.
Methodology
Aggregated from the top 36 posts of the last month. Statistics only — no post content is reproduced. Patterns are title-shape buckets computed over the community's top posts of the trailing 30 days; timing reflects when those posts were published (UTC). We refresh weekly and stamp every snapshot — this one: September 14, 2026. For how the rest of the stack fits together, see our Reddit automation tools overview.