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Jessica M. White's avatar

Fascinating!

Do you know if this verification process overrides the setting NOT allowing AI to access/train through your substack?

Jacqui Wakelam @ TheBeagle's avatar

Jessica, you can opt out of AI training from your Substack in Settings under the Privacy section

Jessica M. White's avatar

Thank you for following up!

Jacqui Wakelam @ TheBeagle's avatar

That is a very good question Jessica!

Leah Boden's avatar

Thank you, fabulous one 👸 tis done 👍

Maria's avatar

I can verify that I am even more of a Luddite since I still don’t even know what SEO stands for! 😅 I’m going to go through the steps you’ve been so kind to share, thank you!

Jacqui Wakelam @ TheBeagle's avatar

Search Engine Optimisation, but we could maybe think of something a bit more fun than that 😁

Maria's avatar

For sure we can, how about Stuff Everyone Overlooks?! 😝

Christina Lynn Wallace's avatar

Ahhh thank you for this!

Jacqui Wakelam @ TheBeagle's avatar

You're welcome lovely!

Tamar's avatar

An excellent guide! I've had to do things like this for websites I've managed and it is *not* easy to figure these things out. Thank you for sharing!

Jacqui Wakelam @ TheBeagle's avatar

It does my head in gah!!

Nicolo' Caiti's avatar

Spot on. You completely nailed the technical hurdle here. It is wild how many newer Substack writers have no idea they are essentially invisible to Google until they manually verify their property in Search Console. Breaking down that HTML tag process so simply is a massive help for non-technical creators trying to build their organic traffic and finally get indexed.

I curate a blog covering these exact digital growth and technical SEO strategies. I’d love to connect and do a subscription swap so we can help each other grow. Keep the incredibly helpful, step-by-step guides coming!