Substack's Core Growth Loop — Brian Balfour
The key to any fast growing company is having one or more compounding growth loops. In a previous quick take, I wrote about why good creators should never post on medium . As part of that I mentioned why I think Substack (or something like it) will take over Medium. That triggered a bunch of que
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I don't think individual posts on substack rank very well on Google.
The growth is mainly through personal relationships. I follow someone on twitter, they start a substack, I subscribe.
In fact, I think, it's easier to rank on google with your own SEO optimized site.
I don't think ranking and SEO was the topic the article discussed. Personally I have not looked into individual posts ranking and SEO but Substack is good at what it does - Helping people own their audience.
SEO is listed on the growth loop chart.
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What happened to G+ in relation to his writing? I am not sure we read the same thing but Brian was stating their observations on why Substack is growing fast.
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