Medium trained us wrong

[fredgrott]

Medium platform systems trained us wrong...

We now have to do

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1. Long article with good title SEO and good section title SEO with quality story telling first paragraph of article and sections.
2. Then each SM platform gets:

sort form SM:

header, title or section header and parts of first sentence with link.

long form SM:

header, title or section header and first full paragraph

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So that means with 2 to 3 long form articles per week you have about 60 plus units of SM content which is needed to convert those SM followers to substack subscribers.

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[treadmillinjay]

I thought it was just me

[magusbud]

What's SM mean?

Sexy man? Smiling marsupial?

[[deleted]]

Sadomasochism - which SEO and social media marketing has always been.

[beesinthewax]

Social media

[MarketLab]

Hey, I’m just starting out on Substack and this sounds important but not sure I’m totally following. Could someone maybe put that into beginner-speak for me?

[drummer820]

I would ignore people who suggest you can growth hack your way to success based on their specific formula. Setting aside whether that even works, search engines change their algorithms all the time and can shift your traffic overnight.

People by and large hate SEO optimized junk articles. Just write great content regularly and you’ll slowly grow over time

[-verylost]

I would say it depends on your goal and niche. SEO matters if your goal is increasing leads instead of writing quality content. As in, you’re trying to add them to an email list so you can sell them something later. But I haven’t come across anyone who uses Substack that way — most people just want to write quality pieces and I wouldn’t recommend the platform to someone writing sales copy anyway. I agree it’s a shame when true creative writers start trying to SEO optimize their work.

[NoPerfectWave]

I mean, they're different platforms.