This was a good prompt for me. I have been posting to my website regularly but realized that some of what I was posting to Notes on Substack could be lost to me down the line. After some wrangling, I got my own notes posts rhythm going and back-filled it with things I have posted to Substack over the past few months.
I shut down my websites a few years ago, and now use my substack as a website, and it works good enough, but like you said, it could be taken away.
However i dont know how to migrate everything easily, and i cant spend ages learning to code etc, nor do i have enough passive income to pay for ever increasing web application fees.
Is there systems and apps im missing that would make this easier/functional?
I’ve been using it on and off since like 2004 or so?! But these days I’m lost with it… thankful to have a “Wordpress guy” these days. I have to pay him, but yeah… it’s a beast.
I don't have a publication but an author "page" on Substack so my settings are different. When I try to convert to a publication it gives me warning that Stripe already has my account info. My problem to solve, but bummer!
Either way, great advice about updating to a more concise SEO description. That'll be top of mind now with my website which I recently converted from Squarespace to Wordpress on Hostinger based on the great advice you've provided so far. It'll be nice to customize and have the "micro" news option - something I was struggling to implement on Squarespace.
Oh no! Has Substack been able to help with that at all? I know the accounts and publications thing can get so weird. Esp with Stripe!!!
And yesss... I think you can apply the SEO part to so much of our work! How wordy do things need to be? How much can we edit? And how much can be break open and be 1000% our authentic self?!?!
Nothing can replace live interactions.
Totally. For those that can't, GOOD positive Zoom calls are nice too (not the boring, dull kind haha)
This was a good prompt for me. I have been posting to my website regularly but realized that some of what I was posting to Notes on Substack could be lost to me down the line. After some wrangling, I got my own notes posts rhythm going and back-filled it with things I have posted to Substack over the past few months.
This is so great! Happy to hear you're taking back ownership of the bits and bops and putting them on YOUR website. Love it!
This is a great idea! Just added a little blog feed to my website's info page.
Thank you so much for the shout out to my feeds page! It's thanks to you I finally finished it 🙌
Next up, the About page! I just signed up for the About page workshop.
Working on the rest LOL
Hey Seth, thanks for mentioning my website's page and for your continuing work on getting people more into their own lives and out of social media.
Thanks for the posts! I’m planning on creating a feed on my blog after reading the past few posts. The about page workshop link isn’t working for me.
AHHHH, no idea how that ConvertKit thing got in there... dammit... here's the link: https://lu.ma/7ora5fzf
Thank you! Registered
BRING IT, Seth! You're killing it.
I shut down my websites a few years ago, and now use my substack as a website, and it works good enough, but like you said, it could be taken away.
However i dont know how to migrate everything easily, and i cant spend ages learning to code etc, nor do i have enough passive income to pay for ever increasing web application fees.
Is there systems and apps im missing that would make this easier/functional?
There's a handful of simple blogging platforms that cost around $6/mo:
https://pika.page/
https://write.as/
https://bearblog.dev/
https://micro.blog/
Migration might be tough, but I'm manually copying and pasting my posts from Substack into WordPress.
Nothing is perfect, but that's the nature of the fragmented web!
Thanks for the tips! Wordpress is like a leviathan to me, i cant even begin to fathom it.
I’ve been using it on and off since like 2004 or so?! But these days I’m lost with it… thankful to have a “Wordpress guy” these days. I have to pay him, but yeah… it’s a beast.
Leave your house!!!
I'm going!
Go then!
I don't have a publication but an author "page" on Substack so my settings are different. When I try to convert to a publication it gives me warning that Stripe already has my account info. My problem to solve, but bummer!
Either way, great advice about updating to a more concise SEO description. That'll be top of mind now with my website which I recently converted from Squarespace to Wordpress on Hostinger based on the great advice you've provided so far. It'll be nice to customize and have the "micro" news option - something I was struggling to implement on Squarespace.
Oh no! Has Substack been able to help with that at all? I know the accounts and publications thing can get so weird. Esp with Stripe!!!
And yesss... I think you can apply the SEO part to so much of our work! How wordy do things need to be? How much can we edit? And how much can be break open and be 1000% our authentic self?!?!
It's a balance for sure!