Honestly, I'd LOVE to do a collab but let you take the reigns on it. Your expertise is so much different than mine and I think my audience would love to know your findings.
We should schedule another Zoom soon now that I'm moved!
Wow! Thank you for this. It is brand new information to me. I've added tags to my posts because I thought it aided in SEO. Now I know what to do with them.
This is great. I have used tags to split my articles into “humor” for those who only want the hilarious and “humanity” for those who want the deep stuff. The challenge with this though is that (to my knowledge) there is no way to access the navigation bar via the app- which I fear is a primary method for a lot of people to access our stacks. Any thoughts on this?
Also, there is a way to add a sort of landing page post like the “about page” to the navigation bar. I’ve done this with an “inspiration” page to link to my shop. I’d love to hear if other people have better shop ideas!
Kate, I agree with you 100% that the app has its faults in the department. So far, I don't know that there's a workaround.
What Teri Leigh did was change her default About page into a catalog of sorts, because it's visible in the app.
As for your landing page comment, that's what the Hero post is good for. Ypu write and publish a "Start Here" or welcome post and pin it so that it always stays at the top. It'll be what everyone sees first when they land on your pub.
If you look at the home page for any one of my 3 Substacks, all of them have a pinned welcome post.
Brilliant thank you Kristi; I remember reading this, not doing anything with it, forgetting it and forgetting where I read it🤪. This is super helpful for me at my current phase of posting❤️✨
I love tags. I use them for every post. They are also useful when you have a post that would fit in 2 or more different categories - which can lead to greater site or writer visibility.
Like you said, they show up as header links as well as groups in the body of the home page. Huge improvement in the homepage appearance.
Thank you, Kristi! This is the clearest explanation of tags. I finally GET it!
You're welcome! Glad to hear this is clear outside of my head, I sometimes have trouble articulating instructions.
Great stuff here Kristi, thanks much!
Thank you for this advice. Tech stuff isn't my strong suit, so I appreciate any attempt to help me use the site better.
You're welcome David 😊
You're so right David. The writing is a "relative" breeze - but technologically is the brick wall I can't scale.
thank you, Christie that is very helpful❤️
Kristi
Thank you, Kristi. This is so helpful. Now I know that I can categorize my posts as “Spirituality” “Human Design” “Grief”’etc.
You're welcome, Uma! I'm have been surprised to find out how many didn't know this. I'm always happy to shed a little light ✨️ 😊
You do shed light! And we're all so grateful for it :)
I know I could probably look somewhere and find this out, but
Do our tags have any input on the overall Substack search function? Because that would be sweet. But I feel like they don’t.
I can't answer definitively, but I feel like they don't either.
So grateful for this further explanation. I’ve just started to work on my tags and now it helps to add to my nav bar yay!
It def doesn’t (currently) help with “search”… would so love that. Dang. Of course that would mean inching closer to “typical” social media sooooo. 😜
I’ve been playing with “search” and what it does and doesn’t do for you and how to leverage it… would love to hear YOUR thoughts on that!
Hmmmm maybe a collab post? 🦋😍
Honestly, I'd LOVE to do a collab but let you take the reigns on it. Your expertise is so much different than mine and I think my audience would love to know your findings.
We should schedule another Zoom soon now that I'm moved!
Ooohhhh YESSSSSSS! Let’s do it! 😍🦋
I'll email you on Sunday and we can set up a date.
Wow! Thank you for this. It is brand new information to me. I've added tags to my posts because I thought it aided in SEO. Now I know what to do with them.
You're welcome, Dawn. I think plenty of users really had no idea what to use tags for, hence lots aren't even using them!
Thanks a lot! I knew how to use tags for sections in the publication navigation but not about the grouping on the home page!
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing your insights, Kristi.
My pleasure!
This is great. I have used tags to split my articles into “humor” for those who only want the hilarious and “humanity” for those who want the deep stuff. The challenge with this though is that (to my knowledge) there is no way to access the navigation bar via the app- which I fear is a primary method for a lot of people to access our stacks. Any thoughts on this?
Also, there is a way to add a sort of landing page post like the “about page” to the navigation bar. I’ve done this with an “inspiration” page to link to my shop. I’d love to hear if other people have better shop ideas!
Kate, I agree with you 100% that the app has its faults in the department. So far, I don't know that there's a workaround.
What Teri Leigh did was change her default About page into a catalog of sorts, because it's visible in the app.
As for your landing page comment, that's what the Hero post is good for. Ypu write and publish a "Start Here" or welcome post and pin it so that it always stays at the top. It'll be what everyone sees first when they land on your pub.
If you look at the home page for any one of my 3 Substacks, all of them have a pinned welcome post.
Brilliant thank you Kristi; I remember reading this, not doing anything with it, forgetting it and forgetting where I read it🤪. This is super helpful for me at my current phase of posting❤️✨
I always forget where I read great things lol. I have gotten into the habit of emailing myself story links now 😂
I love tags. I use them for every post. They are also useful when you have a post that would fit in 2 or more different categories - which can lead to greater site or writer visibility.
Like you said, they show up as header links as well as groups in the body of the home page. Huge improvement in the homepage appearance.
Thanks for the the post on this, Kristi.
Sounds like you've got your tag stuff together, Cork. That's awesome. And you're right, it creates such a tidy appearance.
Always useful! Thanks for such a great explanation Kristi!
Thank you so much. I have to laugh at myself. I've been using them this whole time thinking they were for searching 🤣
Well...in real life (outside of Substack 😂) that's what they ARE used for!!
😂 I'm so glad you made that post