Setting up Reddit Intelligence correctly is crucial for extracting meaningful audience insights that drive your content strategy. This guide walks you through the setup requirements and helps you prepare for a successful onboarding experience.
Understanding the Setup Process
After subscribing to Reddit Intelligence, you'll enter a personalized onboarding journey designed to configure your dashboard precisely for your needs. The process takes 3-5 business days from subscription to having a fully functional dashboard, and involves three key steps: completing your setup requirements, scheduling a setup call, and dashboard creation.
Core Setup Requirements
When you first access Reddit Intelligence after subscribing, you'll be presented with a comprehensive setup form. This form captures all the essential information needed to build your custom dashboard:
Here's what you'll need to provide:
1. Subreddit Selection
Your subreddit choices form the foundation of your Reddit Intelligence monitoring. Consider these factors when selecting subreddits:
Quantity Limits: Your plan determines how many subreddits you can track:
Basic Plan: Up to 10 subreddits
Standard Plan: Up to 20 subreddits
Premium Plan: Up to 30 subreddits
Selection Strategy: Choose subreddits where your target audience actively discusses topics relevant to your business. Quality matters more than quantity—it's better to deeply monitor 5 highly relevant communities than superficially track 20 loosely related ones.
2. Topic Configuration
Topics help the AI categorize and analyze conversations effectively. You'll need to define at least 2 topics, each with detailed descriptions of 25+ words.
Writing Effective Topic Descriptions: Be specific and comprehensive. Instead of just "Content Marketing," write: "Involves planning, creating, and promoting content to engage a target audience. Goes beyond keyword usage, covering editorial calendars, shareable content, multi-channel distribution, and measuring campaign impact."
Topic Examples
The following topics definitions are the ones used in the live demo analyzing real SEO subreddit discussions:
AI and SEO: "Covers discussions on how AI-driven tools (e.g., GPT-4, ChatGPT) assist with keyword research, content creation, analytics, or other SEO tasks. Includes machine learning approaches, NLP algorithms like BERT, and broader impacts of AI on SEO trends."
Algorithm Updates: "Focuses on search engine algorithm changes including core updates, ranking adjustments, and SERP feature modifications. Covers discussions about algorithm updates impacts, traffic fluctuations, ranking shifts, penalty recovery strategies, and adaptation techniques. Includes analysis of historical algorithm updates, prediction of future changes, and documentation of ranking factor modifications."
Analytics: "Encompasses measuring and interpreting SEO data (e.g., via Google Analytics, Search Console). Includes tracking user behavior, conversions, and creating dashboards or reports for data-driven decisions.
Content Marketing: "Involves planning, creating, and promoting content to engage a target audience. Goes beyond keyword usage, covering editorial calendars, shareable content, multi-channel distribution, and measuring campaign impact."
Copywriting: "Focuses on crafting written content—headlines, descriptions, meta tags—for persuasion and engagement. Includes CTA phrasing, ad copy, and best practices integrating creativity with SEO considerations."
Design: "Explores the impact of design and UX on SEO performance—layout, color schemes, mobile responsiveness, accessibility, page speed optimization—and how site redesigns can affect rankings and user experience."
Keyword Research: "Concerns identifying and selecting keywords, analyzing search intent, volume, and competition. Includes using various tools, grouping/prioritizing keywords, and mapping them to pages for relevance."
Link Building: "Focuses on acquiring quality inbound links to improve site authority—outreach campaigns, guest blogging, digital PR, broken link strategies, and caution around spammy practices."
Local SEO: "Covers optimizing for local audiences—Google Business Profile, local citations, NAP consistency, region-specific keywords, reviews, and local link-building strategies."
On-page SEO: "Involves direct page optimizations—title tags, headings, meta descriptions, image alt text, internal linking, schema markup, keyword placement, and avoiding over-optimization."
Technical SEO: "Focuses on optimizing a site's technical foundation—server configurations, sitemaps, redirects, canonicalization, site speed, robots.txt, advanced schema, and diagnosing indexing issues. 12. Tools Relates to software, platforms, or online services that assist with SEO tasks—keyword research tools, auditing software, rank trackers, extensions, or project management apps."
3. Competitor and Tool Tracking
Define at least 2 competitors or tools you want to monitor, again with detailed descriptions to ensure accurate tracking.
Competitor Descriptions: Include variations of competitor names, common misspellings, and product names. For example: "Semrush, SEMrush, including their keyword research tool, site audit features, and competitive analysis capabilities."
Tool Tracking: Think beyond direct competitors. Track complementary tools your audience uses, emerging alternatives, and industry-standard solutions they compare against.
The Setup Call: Maximizing Value
Your 30-minute setup call with the WordCrafter team is crucial for refining your requirements. Prepare by:
Documenting Your Goals: What specific insights do you hope to gain? Are you looking for content ideas, competitive intelligence, or audience pain points?
Gathering Questions: List any uncertainties about topic definitions, subreddit choices, or tracking parameters
Reviewing Initial Selections: Be ready to discuss why you chose specific subreddits and whether they align with your business objectives
During the call, the team will help you:
Refine topic descriptions for maximum accuracy
Validate subreddit selections against your goals
Optimize competitor tracking parameters
Ensure your configuration captures the data you need
Best Practices for Setup Success
Start Focused: Begin with your most important subreddits and topics. You can always refine your configuration as you learn what data proves most valuable.
Think Like Your Audience: Use language and terms your audience actually uses, not just industry jargon. If they call it "Google rankings" instead of "SERP positions," reflect that in your topic descriptions.
Consider Seasonality: Some topics may have seasonal relevance. Account for this in your setup to ensure year-round valuable insights.
Post-Setup Expectations
Once setup is complete, your dashboard will begin building. Within 1-2 business days after your setup call, you'll find it at this URL. The initial setup will provide 90 days of historical data, allowing you to accurately identify patterns, trends, and sentiment from the start.
Remember, Reddit Intelligence is designed to continuously evolve with your needs. The initial setup creates your foundation, but you can work with support to refine your tracking parameters as you discover what insights matter most for your content strategy.