To make a backlink on Reddit, create a post or add a link tab in a subreddit you moderate to share your URL with the community. You can also navigate to your profile > settings > profile > social links > add a custom link. Most standard links posted on Reddit are no-follow links, meaning they do not pass direct search engine authority, but they drive referral traffic and visibility.
That doesn't mean Reddit isn't useful for SEO though. Reddit itself emphasizes that publishers can use the platform to get their articles discovered and discussed, and it offers publishers domain verification and link-performance tools through Reddit Pro. A good Reddit post can produce referral traffic, brand searches, content discovery, and -most importantly- secondary backlinks when bloggers, journalists, designers, or other site owners discover your content and link to it from their own websites.
Think about the chain like this:
Hackingforum.net article → useful Reddit discussion → people discover article → some people reference it elsewhere → followed editorial backlinks
Those secondary editorial links are what I'd be chasing rather than trying to find a trick for turning Reddit itself into a do-follow backlink.
So what you want to do is create a few high-quality articles on Reddit relating to the type of content you offer on your website and funnel the traffic back to you. A good example would be creating something like "The top underground hacking forums in 2026" and adding "hackingforum.net" as a resource in the article. That takes the Google search traffic from anyone trying to find a hacking forum and points them to this site. There are many clever ways to begin funneling traffic from Reddit to your site, so its important that you create actual relevant, quality articles to refer back to.
