Boost Your Substack
Submit your Newsletter to these directories
There are many lists online of newsletter directories and aggregators to submit your Substack to—on this shared quest to reach more readers—but I found many of these of lists very outdated, with many dead links.
Here’s my attempt at cleaning up these lists into one comprehensive one. I haven’t had results from many of these yet, so I’m not sure what is still actually active, but of many dozens I tried these are the ones that at least still have functional websites. I’ve had some small success with a few of these so far, with a trickle of new subscribers finding me, which definitely makes the minor effort worthwhile!
Generally, before you begin, have handy: your logo (often as an url), your URL*, a tagline, a short description, 4-5 main categories, and sometimes a banner image of certain specs and a link to a RSS feed**.
*To get a URL for your logo from Substack, right click on your logo and click “open image as a new tab.” Copy that URL)
**Your RSS feed is found by: https://yournewslettername.substack.com/feed (so in my case: https://sleepyhollowink.substack.com/feed—it doesn’t look pretty when I test it, but apparently it doesn’t matter.
Sometimes you have to dig around a bit on these websites to find the place to submit your newsletter.
Have at it and let me know how it goes. Your updates/additions welcome! I’ll keep editing here as needed.
PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR SUBSTACK:
Good luck! Updates? Add in the comments.
Thanks for this list!
Thank you for sharing this!
It's really useful for someone like me who is starting out.
I've submitted to 10 directories, so let's see what happens!