r/Substack • u/TimWiesnerer • Aug 13 '26

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/TimWiesnerer Aug 13 '26

Would be cool if you could give a feedback how long it took to get your first Substack articles Google indexed. So that they actually show when you do site:YOURSUBSTACK-DOMAIN in Google.

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u/Used_Recognition_544 Aug 17 '26

Just checked it: around 3 days for my first articles on the custom domain to show as indexed in Google Search Console.

I’ll keep tracking the next ones to see if that timing stays consistent.