Is Substack Good For Blogging in 2024?

How to use Substack as a blog, SEO, pros and cons, and a few tips and tricks

Substack has become an increasingly popular platform for writers and creators in recent years.

But is it a good place to build and grow a blog in 2024?

Let's examine the pros and cons of using Substack for blogging.

What is Substack?

Substack is a newsletter platform that allows writers to publish newsletters directly to their subscribers.

Nothing new here.

In short: Substack is a great platform for writers.

Writers can publish free newsletters or charge a subscription fee. Substack takes a 10% cut of any paid subscriptions.

Substack newsletters function similarly to blogs in many ways — writers can publish longform articles and content. All of a writer's posts are collected on their Substack page, creating an archive of their work. Hence a blog.

So while Substack wasn't originally intended as a blogging platform (as far as we know), many writers now use it that way.

Key Differences Between Substack and Traditional Blogging Platforms

There are some notable differences between using Substack vers…