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A. R. Eldridge's avatar

As always, deeply helpful content 🙏

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Thank you so much!! I’m just glad we’re getting some use out of the absolute crash out that google search console gave me. 💀

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A. R. Eldridge's avatar

I’ll admit it wigged me out when I first saw that code wall on the sitemap url 😅

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I'd be worried if it didn't. 😅 I am not a tech girlie so my eyes went wide and I thought I had just broke my laptop something TERRIBLE.

Nope, actually just did everything completely right. I'm just not built for this 💀

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A. R. Eldridge's avatar

“Thus I speak thy true name, search daemon!”

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

OMFG. Or OMFVD. No Snacks! But def something to chew on. I think my kink has a new collar.

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William Pauley III's avatar

This is brilliant. Thank you! I'll try it out later today.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I'm just happy that I can help—and hopefully prevent another broken laptop.

Mine's not broken, of course. I just wrote about regulating emotions, I'm totally fine.

Totally.

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William Pauley III's avatar

🤣 I may break mine trying to figure this SEO stuff out. Stay tuned. 😀

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William Pauley III's avatar

I went ahead and subscribed. Just in case. 😄

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Lauren Cave's avatar

Really love this. Great way of framing something I've been struggling to get my head around. 🙌

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I'm so happy that you enjoyed it! SEO and algorithm can be overwhelming at first—luckily I have experience in "the hard way," so I'm glad that my hard-headedness has a it's perks. Just not for me 😅 Alas, we persist! Together. 🖤🌙

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Lauren Cave's avatar

I love it. You're like Indiana Jones saying 'it belongs in a museum!' so we can all enjoy it.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

The more people that get use (or a laugh) out of it, the better! Thank you. 🖤🌙

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Anne F Hag's avatar

Thank you for sharing. I’m not currently publishing fiction on Substack, but it’s a future goal 😃. And I’m sure I can use these gold nuggets for my normal writing as well 😬. Thank you for making it so easy ❤️

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Of course!! Thank you for reading and I'm happy I can help! I figured that we shouldn't ALL suffer the way that I have 😅

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Andrew Taylor's avatar

Excellent guide, the fact Substack doesn’t do sitemapping and discovery for you is a CRIME.

But thankfully people like you put out amazing walk throughs

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Thank you! And double thank you for the tip about backlinks. I would've never thought to include that.

And, you're right, it is downright criminal

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Maddox Emory Arnold's avatar

I really appreciate this! As someone who has/had NO idea whatsoever about how to approach SEO, this is extremely helpful. Makes the whole process seem less overwhelming. Thank you so much for posting!

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Of course! I am happy to help! If I had to suffer through it, you guys better get to profit off of it 🖤

If you have any questions or anything, feel free to ask away. I can't promise I'll have the answer but I can promise I'll try!

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Asteria Geisterblum's avatar

Thank you so much! This was so informative and huge! But it’s all in bite sized pieces and I actually understand what you’re saying 🫡 what a job! I’ll probably read this again when I’m not massively hungover as I am right now, and then sit down to start working on that

Forever the most grateful 🥹💛

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Thank you! I'm glad I could help! Soon, we take SEO down. 🥂✨

Get some rest, drink water, and avoid any accidental stealing of identities right before we teach Google your name.

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Aetherias Moon's avatar

Wow this was like really detailed and helpful, but why did I read it while massively sleep deprived? lol. I will come back to this when I can process your mysterious google summoning magic properly. But seriously thank you so much!

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Of course!! I’m so happy that I could help! Makes it all very worth it 🌙🖤

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