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Megan Maciel's avatar

This is so incredibly helpful, thank you! 🩷 I started Substack months ago as just a space to put my work, but now I have goals and am trying to build community. I really appt your insights!

Nicole's avatar

Thank you, Megan! Please make sure to check the Monster Guide too, @Jurgen Appelo’s post helped me set up shop when I started here.

Becky Hayward's avatar

This is so informative and helpful, Nicole. It is administrative but it’s necessary. I’m still learning but I learned a whole bunch today! Thank you for putting this together for us.

Nicole's avatar

Thank you, Becky!

Kimberly B🌴👻🌴's avatar

This had some great tips, particularly the Email limits. I've been bumping up against that one with one of my features, and I need to pay a lot more attention than I'd thought!

Nicole's avatar

Glad it helped, Kimberly, thank you for reading. Size is a bum, you always need to choose what to feature and what to mention only.

Sam Oldman's avatar

I don't seem to get my comments through here. And I cannot remember what I wrote. But just in case this one comes through:

I learned a lot from this "TINY" guide and I appreciate your generosity on sharing these in depth skills you have.

Nicole's avatar

Thank you, Sam! I was shocked it came to be this big too, being just about some tweaks at publish time.

Leo thee Lemon's avatar

Cool guide Nicole. I will come back to this soon again and again

Nicole's avatar

Thank you, Leo, please remember what momma taught you: don’t come first, always second.

Leo thee Lemon's avatar

How do you know the lessons my grandma taught me?

S. Imperov's avatar

This is a third comment that doesn't post but I'm still going to repeat that you have a mind of a genius. My brain is imploding under pressure of all this information and you make it seem so easy. I'm going to be re-reading this multiple times just to scratch the understanding. Beautiful work!!!

Nicole's avatar

I hear Substack is buggy these days. Hopefully they will fix all regressions, they surely have some bugs after the latest "visual" improvements in showing posts.

Hope you'll like at least one thing to implement in your next post! 🤗

S. Imperov's avatar

Definitely implementing

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Nicole's avatar

Perplexity can store it in the same way! Thank you, Darby!

S. Imperov's avatar

You make it sound so simple but I still believe that Nicole is a genius :)

I still think that a bit of psychology goes into the “SEO stuff.” Questions like: How do people search? What would they actually type in? You need to study the mind to pick the right lines.

Nicole's avatar

ohhh don't bother too much, it's important but truly most of whatever an AI thinks it's good SEO is still better than just your first row of text, your subtitle or nothing at all. :)))

Fragments and the Dark's avatar

Wow, thank you so much for sharing. I'm new here and I didn't know all of that... I really have to dig deeper it seems. Just a question (maybe I haven't seen this): I know where I find the normal Title and also where I find the SEO-Title but where do I change the Title for socials? And does this matter if I have no other social media and therefore can't share over there?

Nicole's avatar

Hey! Just click on the Social preview image and it will bring up the menu for that, check here> https://nicolekwrites.substack.com/i/185982909/social-preview-title

Even if you don't have socials, one would hope your work will get outside in the world some day (i.e. go viral) and then it's not your socials that matters, but other people's, who will share it along.

Fragments and the Dark's avatar

Awesome, thanks a lot! I found everything and I‘m just updating all my older posts! Really cool, especially the prompt wow! 🥰 Can‘t thank you enough! I will change to a paid sub as soon as possible, unfortunately money is a bit short at the moment! But I won‘t forget. 🙂

Nicole's avatar

Don't worry about it, I just thought more substackers might want to know their options since I was getting questions about my posts. So glad you found some useful settings here!

Fragments and the Dark's avatar

Thanks a lot 😁

Phoeby's avatar

You’re amazing. Thank you!

Nicole's avatar

Thank you, Phoeby! hope it helped you! 🤗

Phoeby's avatar

Yes, very much! Thank you, again

Sara da Encarnação's avatar

I am surprised as Leonardo doesn't give me any free credits. I had to stop using it as don't have more free logins.

Nicole's avatar

I have two accounts with them, one with a paid subscription and one on the free tier. They give some tokens every day but they must be used that day.

Sara da Encarnação's avatar

Ahh I see. Leonardo is fantastic for images.

Sam Oldman's avatar

And I'm honored and floored by you tagging Hush Halo as 10/10 example on visual consistency. ♡

Nicole's avatar

Sam, yours was the best example I could think of!

Andrea (Andy) Curran 🌄's avatar

Very cool! Thanks for all these details. I got limited on my recent post but I didn’t realize it didn’t send at all! I thought it would just send part of the article. I take a lot of photos and weave them into some of my articles. Is there a way to have it send only a partial piece in the email and then let the rest be seen in app?

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Nicole's avatar

Enjoyyyyy!