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Emily Conway's avatar

Thank you, Joy! I need to hear this over and over again.

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Olive P. Wood's avatar

I ordered the book and I already have a beach trip planned in early December. I will reread your words then.

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Joy V. 🌵✨'s avatar

yay! i wish the book were required reading for everyone.

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David Dewar's avatar

You're a great writer, mother, and friend. That's a human teifecta, my dear. We love you.

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Joy V. 🌵✨'s avatar

Thank you!

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Janice Airhart's avatar

Nature definitely heals. Glad you've gotten to a better place. (And I didn't know that about the Substack algorithm for paid accounts.)

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Joy V. 🌵✨'s avatar

Yes—I learned from @Sarah Fay, PhD that it will keep you off any of the bestseller lists or “rising” Substacks etc. Bottom line: If your site is not bringing Substack money somehow, the algorithm is not going to promote you 😵‍💫 (or as my old boss used to say “shit ain’t free.”)

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Sarah Fay, PhD's avatar

I never said that. Quite the opposite: it’s s true that the bestseller lists have to do with paid subscribers, but that makes sense because they’re bestsellers, but Substack doesn’t have anything against people who aren’t monetizing.

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Joy V. 🌵✨'s avatar

OK thanks for clarifying and weighing in. It just never dawned on me until I read your site and realized that "bestseller" and "rising" lists exclude non-monetized folks.

Also, FWIW, because of all this, I turned my paid subs back on yesterday and suddenly I'm #8 in rising Substacks for health/wellness! It's just counting my old paid subs that still read my site, I haven't gotten any new ones. But goes to show - visibility on Substack is easier when trying to monetize.

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