Welcome to this month’s Ask Me Anything!
These are the questions paid subscribers asked in the Chat this month, along with my answers.
I’ll be adding a new edition every month, so this post will become part of the growing archive of Q&As available to paid subscribers.
You can find them all in the Premium Content Library.
Here are the questions we covered in this edition:
How do you suggest getting the most out of each article you write? We work so hard on them, so it would be nice to actually have a system for making sure it’s being fully utilized instead of just sitting there waiting to discovered.
Is SEO still relevant? How to make our articles relevant for AEO?
My lead magnet is a bit long - 15 pages. I got feedback that it is better to write something shorter, simpler - not more than 5 pages.
In my Welcome e-mail for free subs, I put a short inventory - 6 questions. My impression is that people who subscribe do not open these welcome e-mails very often. What is your opinion about the volume of the freebies available with e-mail registration?
Any specific tactics for ‘warming up the alg’ before we post? What works and what’s a waste of time?
Are you able to adjust SEO settings after an article has been published, or can you only do it before pushing “publish?
I’m frustrated by low distribution of my notes feed. Each note is getting Any ideas?
Can you give us an example with one of your SEO URLs - with dahses, or without and how many words we could put there?
How are you getting articles posted, commenting, notes, etc. while still juggling your actual life? What’s your system for this? Do you just have a backlog of old blogs you’re using?
I’ve been using AI to develop the subtitles for articles and leaving the url’s as developed by Substack. In the last couple articles I have used subtitles that maximize SEO with keywords the AI recommends. Any thoughts on this process? Would you do anything differently?
I am still struggling with a paid tier. There is always “different ways to monetize”, but how do we know what to choose? Digital products are not really the focus I want totally because they take a lot of time and I’m not sure the value added unless it’s personal. It’s hard to know how to figure out pricing and worth. Any insight?
Here’s my take on each of them: