Re:Sell yourself, sell your work
by nmfisher on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @02:19AM
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Do you have any idea whether Substack drives traffic to, or sucks traffic from, your blog?
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No idea at all. My blog does really well on Google, so I think if either site is being penalized for duplicate content it's probably the Substack.
It looks like 8% of my newsletter signups are "from the app" according to the Substack dashboard - which I think is how they show signups that they've encouraged as opposed to signups I had myself.
I'm really just using Substack because they've solved email deliverability and they're free for me to use to send out emails.
If you have a blog with RSS and just need something that auto-emails people your updates you can run my project on a raspberry pi. No need to tie yourself into the substack ecosystem if you don't want to