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You Might Need To Eliminate Some Of Your Substack Tags

Nobody knew this at the beginning of their Substack journey, including me!

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦
Mar 29, 2025
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Not ANOTHER post about Substack tags!

They’ve been a hot topic lately, and for good reason. Tags in Substackistan are nothing like tags in the real world, and you probably did it all wrong the first time around (if you did it at all).

Today’s post was inspired by a staggering number of folks I’ve worked with who innocently did not know this in the beginning.

You know when you started Substack and you thought tags should be used like #hashtags or SEO tags?

And now you have 827 random tags in your dashboard that you’ve used incorrectly?

And they all begin with # or lowercase letters because WHO KNEW when they started that they’d need PROPER tags to organize their homepage and bring order into their lives??

I’m here to deliver some good news: You CAN delete them and start fresh!

Let’s clean up your tags once and for all:

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