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Does moving your blog to Substack hurt your SEO?

Marketing for Entrepreneurs | SEO for small business · Rachel Lindteigen · Jul 7, 2026 · 17 min

What's in this episode

Rachel explains what happens to your search visibility when your blog moves to Substack: no canonical tags, Substack outranking your own site, and authority flowing to their domain instead of yours. She lays out how to use Substack as a supplement without giving up your website.

Questions it answers

Does moving your blog to Substack hurt your SEO?

SEO coach Rachel Lindteigen explains why moving your whole blog to Substack hurts your site's rankings, and how to use Substack without losing them.

Answered on Marketing for Entrepreneurs | SEO for small business

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