{"id":3341,"date":"2026-08-27T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/reddit-appears-in-83-9-of-googles-discussions-and-forums-results\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:49:03","slug":"reddit-appears-in-83-9-of-googles-discussions-and-forums-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/reddit-appears-in-83-9-of-googles-discussions-and-forums-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Appears in 83.9% of Google’s Discussions and Forums Results"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our recent analysis of 145M US Google search results found the ‘Discussions and forums’ feature present in 16.93M (11.7%) of them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The most prominent domain was Reddit.com, which showed up in 87.8% of SERPs (83.9% worldwide), with an average of 1.29 link appearances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Along with Ahrefs’ data scientist Xibeijia Guan, I set out to uncover how prominent other sites were, whether young forums appeared, and the impact backlinks might have on results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Just three sites account for 76.75% of all Discussions and forums links worldwide<\/li>\n
After Reddit, the most prominent domains by feature appearances were Facebook (38.3%), Quora (32%), JustAnswer (8.2%), and Mayo Clinic (3.3%)<\/li>\n
98.7% of Discussions and forums appearances are for queries with Informational intent<\/li>\n
The SERP feature is most prominent in the US, Canada, the Philippines, Australia, and the UK<\/li>\n
Facebook overtook Quora\u2019s prominence for the first time in January of 2026<\/li>\n
The youngest site in the top 1,000 domains overall is 3 years and 11 months old<\/li>\n
There was no correlation between backlinks to individual threads and how often they showed up in results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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Reddit appears in 83.9% of results, with an average inclusion rate of 89.3% over the past two years<\/h2>\n
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When the Discussions and forums SERP feature was present, it included a link to Reddit 83.9% of the time, regardless of country. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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We’re still collecting data for August, but early results show it has grown to appear in 86.1% of results so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n