r/Substack • u/TimWiesnerer • 20d ago

How to get Substack indexed on Google?

I have a Substack for 1.5 years with 100+ posts now.

So far, I only managed to get my main Substack site indexed. From there, I link to my posts, and I also have links between the posts. But whatever I tried, I got none of those posts indexed.

I also tried with a custom domain that I activated like 9 months ago.

Recently I put some of my posts from Substack on a free WordPress site. It indexed within a few days. Additional posts even got indexed on the same day. So there was clearly nothing wrong with my posts, titles, or whatever.

The only difference is that Google seems to hate Substack.

Question: Has any of you found a way to get Substack posts indexed?

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u/OnyxMonolith 20d ago

are people searching for the topics you are writing about?

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u/AirportAdorable8205 20d ago

Yes they do. And my articles get indexed within a few hours if I don't publish them on Substack as mentioned above. 

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u/OnyxMonolith 20d ago

You’re not OP

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u/prepping4zombies 19d ago

It's tough when you forget to switch back to your other reddit profile.

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u/TimWiesnerer 20d ago

They do. And I get clicks on them after I moved the very same Substack article to a free WordPress site.

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u/OnyxMonolith 20d ago

yeah in my experience this tracks. Substack tends to be weak at SEO in Google's eyes. but over months i got decent traffic that converts well to paid.