Growing an email newsletter to 16k+ subscribers whilst validating your startup idea
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Hey ๐So this month I seem to have the writing bug. I put out a couple of new pieces of content this month and made a point to promote it more. I'm terrible at spending days writing a piece of content and not spending the time to drive traffic towards it.A few handy tips I found. Firstly, Medium allows you to manually add canonical URLs in their post settings. This is important as duplicate content can hurt your SEO. Now i'm writing content on my personal site I want to ensure search engines know the content on my site is the original content and not Mediums. So I get all the SEO benefit but get exposure via Mediums traffic.Secondly, be sure to consider submitting your post to a publication. I published my latest piece below and got contacted by 'The Startup' (Medium's Top Publication) and now my post get even more exposure - including all their 680k followers, socials and newsletterLastly, I identified a list of platforms to promote my content. This includes Hacker News, IndieHackers, Subreddits, Medium, LinkedIn and Twitter. This great piece of content by Harry Dry inspired me. If you don't promote it how will people know see it?Right, letโs get to it - time for this months roundup below ๐
Growing an email newsletter to 16k+ subscribers whilst validating your startup idea
Growing an email newsletter to 16kโฆ
Growing an email newsletter to 16k+ subscribers whilst validating your startup idea
Hey ๐So this month I seem to have the writing bug. I put out a couple of new pieces of content this month and made a point to promote it more. I'm terrible at spending days writing a piece of content and not spending the time to drive traffic towards it.A few handy tips I found. Firstly, Medium allows you to manually add canonical URLs in their post settings. This is important as duplicate content can hurt your SEO. Now i'm writing content on my personal site I want to ensure search engines know the content on my site is the original content and not Mediums. So I get all the SEO benefit but get exposure via Mediums traffic.Secondly, be sure to consider submitting your post to a publication. I published my latest piece below and got contacted by 'The Startup' (Medium's Top Publication) and now my post get even more exposure - including all their 680k followers, socials and newsletterLastly, I identified a list of platforms to promote my content. This includes Hacker News, IndieHackers, Subreddits, Medium, LinkedIn and Twitter. This great piece of content by Harry Dry inspired me. If you don't promote it how will people know see it?Right, letโs get to it - time for this months roundup below ๐