How To Make $1000 Per Month With Reddit

Most people treat Reddit like a place to scroll memes or argue in comment sections. But underneath all of that noise sits one of the most powerful free traffic tools for affiliate marketers that most people never think to use. Reddit calls itself the front page of the internet, and that is not just a tagline. Its domain authority is so high that a well-placed comment with a link can send real, buying-intent traffic to your content for months after you post it.

In this post I am walking you through the exact system Alston lays out in the video above: how to find a product, mine Reddit for real buyer questions, create content that answers those questions, and place your affiliate links where the right people will actually see them. Every step comes straight from the video, and none of the numbers are invented. If you follow each step consistently, $1,000 per month with Reddit is a realistic target, not just a headline.

What You’ll Walk Out With

A repeatable system for finding buyer questions on Reddit without any paid tools
How to pick an Amazon product worth promoting and understand the commission math behind it
The two-step content formula: answer on Reddit, expand in a blog post or video
Which affiliate programs to layer in beyond Amazon so your income per visitor goes up
The actual math behind hitting $1,000 a month so you know what targets to aim for
How to build an email list from this same audience so your income keeps compounding
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Why Reddit Is Underrated for Affiliate Marketing

Here is the thing most new affiliate marketers miss. Reddit has enormous domain authority. When someone types a question into Google, a Reddit thread answering that same question often ranks on the first page. That means your comment, sitting inside a Reddit thread that already ranks on Google, is getting seen by people who are actively searching for an answer right now.

Compare that to a brand-new blog with zero authority. That blog might take six months to rank for anything meaningful. Reddit gives you a shortcut: you borrow Reddit’s authority by participating in threads that already have traction. You are not fighting for search rankings from scratch. You are showing up inside content that is already winning.

The subreddits work like Facebook groups, but with far better Google visibility. Communities like r/frugal, r/EatCheapAndHealthy, r/cooking, and hundreds of others are full of people asking very specific, practical questions every single day. Those questions are your content ideas, and they are free. You do not need a keyword tool subscription to find them. You just need to search.

What makes this method especially powerful for beginners is that it does not require a large audience, a popular website, or any upfront ad spend. You are finding demand that already exists and showing up with a helpful answer. The affiliate commission is the reward for being useful.

Step 1: Find a Product Worth Promoting on Amazon

You need a product before you start looking for questions, because the product tells you which questions to care about. In the video, Alston uses the FoodSaver vacuum sealer machine as his working example. It sells on Amazon for around $162 to $177 depending on the model. This is a real, physical product that solves a specific problem: keeping food fresh longer, reducing waste, and saving money on groceries over time.

Why does the price point matter? Amazon’s affiliate commission in the kitchen and home category runs somewhere between 3 and 5 percent. At 3 percent on a $177 product, you earn roughly $5 per sale. To hit $1,000 per month from that product alone, you need around 200 sales in a month. That sounds like a lot at first, but remember: Reddit threads stay active for months, Google keeps sending people to those threads, and you can have dozens of comments and content pieces working for you at the same time across different questions.

When you are picking your product, think carefully about what audience the product naturally attracts. A vacuum sealer machine attracts people who care about saving money on groceries, meal prepping, and cutting waste in the kitchen. Those same people are also likely interested in other money-saving tools and financial services. That cross-sell opportunity matters a lot to your total income, and it is something we will return to in a later step.

You do not have to use a vacuum sealer specifically. Any physical product in the $100 to $300 range that solves a clear, searchable problem can work. The key is picking something where people are already asking “how do I” or “can I” or “should I” questions in large numbers.

Step 2: Mine Reddit for Real Buyer Questions

This is where the method gets concrete. You are not guessing what people want to know. You are reading what they are already asking in public, in real time.

In the video, Alston starts with the keyword phrase “can you freeze” and searches it directly on Reddit. Within seconds, he is looking at a list of threads posted in the past week, all from real people asking questions like “can you freeze the Costco enchilada chicken bake?” and “can you freeze egg drop soup?” and “can you freeze five layer dip?” These questions are live, they are recent, and people inside those threads are waiting for good answers.

When he checks those same questions on Google, some of them show little to no tracked monthly search volume. But real people are clearly asking them because the threads keep getting posted. This is an important lesson: keyword tools do not capture everything. Reddit shows you actual human questions in real time, and many of those questions have more demand than the tools can measure.

The search method is simple. Go to Reddit, type your niche keyword into the search bar, and hit enter. Then scroll through the results and look at threads posted in the past year. You will find entire categories of questions you can answer. In the “can you freeze” example, there are threads inside r/frugal, r/EatCheapAndHealthy, r/cooking, and other subreddits asking the same type of question repeatedly. Each one of those threads is a potential entry point for your content.

Spend 20 to 30 minutes on this each week and you will never run short of content ideas. Save every question that could tie back to your product or niche. Build a running list. The volume of ideas is not the bottleneck. Execution is.

Step 3: Create the Content That Answers the Question

Before you go back to Reddit and post anything, you need real content to send people to. This is the first of two steps in the core method, and it is the one most people skip in their impatience to post a link. Do not skip it. Reddit communities can tell when someone has not put in real work, and they will ignore you or downvote you if your comment feels like bait.

The content itself does not have to be long or elaborate. Alston recommends keeping it practical: a five-minute YouTube video or a blog post between 1,000 and 1,500 words. The goal is to actually answer the question well. Can you freeze five-layer dip? Yes or no, here is how you do it if yes, here is why not and what to do instead if no. Be specific. Include actual steps. Give people a reason to read or watch past the first minute.

Inside that content, you place your affiliate links naturally. If the post is about freezing food, you mention the FoodSaver vacuum sealer as a tool that makes freezing easier and extends shelf life further than standard plastic bags. That mention should feel like a genuine recommendation, not a forced pitch. Readers and viewers pick up on the difference instantly.

This content does double duty. Reddit users who click through will read it or watch it. And because you published it on your own site or YouTube channel, Google can index it and send additional search traffic over time. One piece of content, two traffic sources, and the affiliate link earns from both.

Step 4: Go Back to Reddit and Answer the Thread

Now you return to the Reddit thread with your answer. You do not drop your link and disappear. That is how accounts get banned or ignored. Instead, you answer the question directly inside the comment itself, and then point people to your content for more.

Give the short answer right in your comment. If someone asks whether they can freeze five-layer dip, write something like: “Yes, in short you can freeze it, though the texture of the sour cream layer may change slightly. I put together a post that walks through the steps for getting the best result.” Then add your link. People respect comments that lead with actual information. They click through when they want more detail.

The link you post should always go to your blog post or video, not directly to your affiliate link. Reddit’s community guidelines and most subreddit rules prohibit direct affiliate links in comments. If you post a direct Amazon affiliate link, you will get removed and potentially banned from the subreddit. Always route through your content first. Your affiliate links live inside that content, not in the Reddit comment itself.

Also, look for threads where the question has already been asked but the existing answers are thin. In the video, Alston shows a thread where ten people have answered the question with little more than “yes you can.” There is room in that thread for a comment that goes deeper and earns the click. Low-competition threads with real traffic potential are the sweet spot.

Step 5: Layer in More Affiliate Offers Beyond Amazon

Amazon’s 3 percent commission is a starting point, not the ceiling. The audience you are attracting with this method is people who want to save money and reduce waste at home. That opens the door to several additional affiliate offers that fit naturally alongside the vacuum sealer recommendation and do not feel out of place.

Alston mentions Truebill as a specific example. Truebill is a service that finds and cancels unused subscriptions on your behalf, which can save someone real money every month without much effort. If your reader is already interested in saving money on groceries and food storage, they are likely also interested in cutting their cable bill, phone plan, or subscription costs. A mention of Truebill inside your blog post adds another income stream that serves the same audience without changing the topic.

Robinhood is another example from the video. If someone is frugal and focused on cutting costs, a tool that helps them invest small amounts while they save can be a relevant next step. Commission structures vary by platform, but the core principle is the same: serve the same audience with products that solve related problems at the same point in their life.

Fiverr is a third option Alston mentions. If your reader is saving money at home but also looking for ways to earn more, pointing them toward a platform where they can offer their own skills as a service is a natural pivot. The person trying to reduce their grocery bill often has an income goal in mind too. Fiverr gives you a referral path into that part of their thinking.

Do not force every product into every post. Pick the two or three offers that fit the specific question you are answering and focus on those. A post about freezing food works well with the FoodSaver link and a Truebill mention. It does not need six unrelated affiliate links crammed in.

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Step 6: Build an Email List From This Same Audience

Affiliate commissions from individual clicks are good. A list of subscribers who trust you and who you can contact again without paying for traffic is far better. Alston mentions this in the video as the move that takes this from a one-time traffic play to a repeating income system.

Here is how it works. Someone finds your Reddit comment, clicks your link, and instead of going straight to your blog post, they land on a simple opt-in page that offers something free in exchange for their email. Maybe it is a one-page guide to the top ten foods worth freezing before they go bad. That guide is directly relevant to why they clicked, it costs you almost nothing to create, and once someone enters their email they are on your list.

Now you can follow up. You can recommend the FoodSaver again in a future email. You can share your Truebill link when you write about cutting monthly expenses. You can introduce side hustle ideas that help them earn more while they are working to spend less. Each email is another chance to earn a commission, and it costs nothing to send because you already paid the cost when you posted that first Reddit comment and created that first piece of content.

This is what separates a Reddit affiliate strategy that plateaus at $200 a month from one that reaches $1,000 and keeps growing. The email list is the asset that compounds. The Reddit comments and blog posts are the top of the funnel that fills that list continuously.

The Real Math Behind $1,000 Per Month

Let us run the numbers so this stops feeling abstract. At 3 percent commission on a $177 FoodSaver, you earn about $5 per sale. To hit $1,000 in a month from that product alone, you need roughly 200 sales. That is a real volume target, and it is not something a single Reddit comment will produce by itself.

The math changes when you spread your effort. If you answer 10 questions per week and each answer points to a different piece of content, after a few months you have a library of dozens of entry points. Some threads get 5 clicks a month. Some get 500. You cannot know in advance which will take off, so the right move is to keep adding. The threads that get traction make up for the ones that do not.

Then layer in the other affiliate offers. Even if Truebill earns you $30 in a month, Fiverr earns $40, and Robinhood earns $50, your total moves toward $1,000 faster than Amazon alone can get you there. Diverse affiliate income across the same audience is also more stable than one product at a thin margin. If Amazon changes its commission structure for your category, as it has done before, your income does not collapse entirely.

The email list adds another layer on top of all of this. If your list grows to 500 people who opened your last three emails, and even 5 percent of them click an affiliate link in a given month, that is 25 more conversions you did not have to earn from scratch through Reddit.

Your Step-by-Step Action Plan

Pick one Amazon product between $100 and $300 that solves a problem people are already searching for answers about.
Go to Reddit and search three to five keywords related to your product or niche. Save every question you find from the past 12 months that could tie back to your product.
Write one blog post or record one YouTube video that answers the most common question from your list. Include your affiliate link naturally in the content.
Post a genuine answer in the relevant Reddit thread. Give the short answer in your comment and link to your full content for people who want the detail.
Add two to three additional affiliate offers inside your blog post that serve the same audience without forcing a topic change.
Set up a simple opt-in page with a free resource related to your niche and start collecting email addresses from people who click through from Reddit.
Repeat steps 2 through 6 each week, building a library of answered questions and content that earns while you are not working.

Honest Drawbacks to Know Before You Start

Reddit is not a passive traffic machine you can set and forget. Subreddits have rules, and many of them will remove your comment the moment they detect any hint of spam or self-promotion. You need to read each subreddit’s rules before posting. Some communities welcome helpful comments with external links. Others ban all external links entirely. Knowing the rules of the room before you walk in saves you from getting banned from subreddits with hundreds of thousands of members.

The income is also not immediate. Your first Reddit comment might get five clicks. Your first blog post might take weeks to appear in Google search results. The system works, but it compounds over time rather than paying out in week one. If you need money in the next two weeks, this specific method is not the right tool for that timeline.

Amazon’s affiliate commissions are also lower than many other programs. Three to five percent sounds small because it is. The FoodSaver example works because of volume combined with complementary offers, not because the margin is generous. If you want higher commissions per sale, software products and digital courses tend to pay 20 to 50 percent and can sit alongside your Amazon links inside the same post without competing with each other.

Finally, Reddit account history matters. A brand-new account that immediately starts posting links in subreddits will get flagged or banned quickly. Plan to spend a week or two just participating genuinely in threads before adding any links. Build a small track record first. It costs you a few days and saves you from losing access to your best subreddits.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is it against Reddit’s rules to post affiliate links?

Posting direct affiliate links in Reddit comments is against the rules in most subreddits and violates Reddit’s site-wide spam policies. The method in this video routes traffic to your blog post or YouTube video first, and your affiliate links live inside that content. You are sharing a helpful comment that links to more detailed information, not dropping a commission link in a thread.

How long does it take to make your first $100 with this method?

It depends on how many questions you answer and how much traffic each thread gets. For most people starting from scratch, the first affiliate commission shows up somewhere between week two and week six. The pace picks up as your library of answered questions grows and your Reddit account builds a track record inside specific subreddits.

Do I need my own website to make this work?

You can start with a YouTube channel instead of a blog. The video answers the question, and your affiliate link goes in the YouTube description. A blog gives you more control over link placement and makes building an email list easier, but a YouTube channel works as an entry point if you prefer being on camera to writing. Either option is viable from day one.

What niche works best for the Reddit traffic method?

Niches where people ask specific, practical questions with a product-based answer tend to work best. Food storage, budgeting, home organization, fitness, pets, and personal finance all have active subreddits with daily questions and real products or services to match. The “can you freeze” keyword from the video is a strong example because it generates new threads every single week across multiple subreddits.

What does Amazon actually pay in affiliate commissions for kitchen products?

Amazon’s commission rate for kitchen and home products typically runs between 3 and 5 percent. At 3 percent on a $177 product like the FoodSaver vacuum sealer, you earn roughly $5 per sale. Higher-priced items in the same category produce larger dollar amounts at the same percentage, which is one reason the $100 to $300 product range is worth targeting when you build content around physical products.

Can I use this method with affiliate programs other than Amazon?

Yes, and the video specifically recommends layering in additional programs. Services like Truebill and Robinhood, which Alston mentions, have their own referral programs that can pay more per conversion than a 3 percent Amazon commission. Software products and subscription services often pay 20 to 50 percent per sale. Using multiple programs on the same content increases what you earn from each visitor without requiring more traffic.

Do I need a Reddit account with posting history before I start?

You do not need years of history, but starting with zero posts and immediately dropping links is a red flag that gets accounts flagged. Spend your first week or two just participating genuinely: answer questions without links, upvote useful posts, and let your account show some normal activity. After that foundation is in place, adding links to your content feels much less like spam and gets better results in the community.

Is $1,000 per month with Reddit realistic for a beginner?

It is realistic, and people reach it. It is also slower than most video titles suggest. At $5 per sale from Amazon alone, you need volume. The people who reach $1,000 and beyond with this method are usually combining two or three affiliate programs per content piece, building an email list to generate repeat income from their audience, and publishing consistently for three to six months before the results compound into meaningful monthly income. Going in with that honest timeline makes the work sustainable instead of discouraging.

Sources

Alston Godbolt, “How To Make $1000 Per Month With Reddit” at youtu.be/gW8l7dXtbmY
Reddit.com communities referenced in the video: r/frugal, r/EatCheapAndHealthy, r/cooking
Amazon Associates Program, kitchen and home category affiliate commission rates
FoodSaver Vacuum Sealer Machine, product example used in the video, listed at $162 to $177 on Amazon
Truebill (now Rocket Money), subscription cancellation service mentioned as a complementary affiliate offer