Thank you for your honesty! Regarding SEO, is it mainly the organic SEO that come from your medium articles? It’s true that Substack is less established as medium, so probably less reach because of this…I always thought in the past that medium wasn’t going to make it (but boy did they prove me wrong, lol). Were you on medium from the start? If so, what did they do differently from substack that makes you go back to medium and away from substack? If you still want to talk about this ofcourse…
After getting motivation from you to switch to Substack, and after reading your May 5th post, making all my settings and migrating to Substack, reading about you - almost - moving away from here has honestly spoiled my mood. Of course, do what's best for you.
It raises a real question: is Substack optimizing for writers or for creators? Because those aren't the same thing.
The writers who just want to write and send emails are losing ground to the ones who treat it like a
social platform. That might be great for growth — but terrible for the people who came here to escape that exact dynamic.
Have you tested whether your Medium audience converts to email subscribers better than Substack's built-in tools?
Most of my subscribers come from Medium. But recently, my main traffic source is SEO. Substack itself is not a huge traffic source.
Thank you for your honesty! Regarding SEO, is it mainly the organic SEO that come from your medium articles? It’s true that Substack is less established as medium, so probably less reach because of this…I always thought in the past that medium wasn’t going to make it (but boy did they prove me wrong, lol). Were you on medium from the start? If so, what did they do differently from substack that makes you go back to medium and away from substack? If you still want to talk about this ofcourse…
After getting motivation from you to switch to Substack, and after reading your May 5th post, making all my settings and migrating to Substack, reading about you - almost - moving away from here has honestly spoiled my mood. Of course, do what's best for you.