Reddit nofollow links
Links in Reddit posts are often nofollow. They still pull humans and still get retrieved by AI systems that do not care about rel=nofollow the way Google might.
SEO teams ignore nofollow and miss the GEO effect.
A URL that appears in a hot comment can become a citation even if it never “passes juice.”
Examples
- Your docs linked from a 2k-upvote comment. Google shrugs. Perplexity footnotes the thread and the docs.
Related terms
Links from other sites. Still useful for discovery and Google. For AI citations, entity and third-party consensus often matter more than raw link count.
Reddit citations are when an AI answer points at a thread or comment as evidence. They are one of the loudest unofficial ranking factors in consumer categories.
The habit of pointing at URLs. Product-dependent. When it’s on, it’s your traffic and your accountability.
FAQ
Build Reddit links for SEO? +
Don’t spam. Participate. The AI side is a side effect of being in the thread, not a PageRank hack.
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