ISL Feature: Beating Substack Notes Algorithms For Direct Exposure. Free Guide.
Hacking outside the Substack note feed using basic computer science.
InSerenity Literary
Boston MA, 6 - 2026
Kickin’ it to Substack
So again back here, nice clean workspace. We are going to talk about internet fishing for search engines.
Notice my gmail open top left, my 2 substacks next to it- my untitled scrap document in the middle, and another 2 substack pages open next to it for quick surfing for links I may want to add to my article I am now writing:
I am using the second Substack tab as my primary article constructor, this is definitely optional- I just find that Substack page interaction tends to generate additional Substack pages, they multiply faster than kittens so. To avoid confusion.
This is what I like to do with notes and everybody should certainly be taking advantage of the Schedule option.
I have been playing with timing placement between 60 minutes and 240 minutes primarily. I have been looking at world time zones and calculating market times in USA/UK/AUS to increase distribution during these peak times as to when people will be on their cell phone or more leasureful on their laptops.
This data can be found by researching popular purchase times for online products- companies do market studies on this. We can access those for our strategies.
Remember, Substack notes is a community of other Substack creators marketing their own product, statistically they do not want to buy your product. What I am doing here, is showing some visualization. It is proven notes with pictures get more engagement (clicks, screen time, likes, etc),
If you only put one picture you have a flat Euclidean page. no options, just scroll by. If you put multiple pictures. “Hey, what’s that other picture”, — and you are now spawning engagement. It is no joke or over exaggeration- Every millisecond (ms) you spend on that image is counted, every click, like, button is recorded.
And this adds to your engagement rates.
Adding video jacks that even more- especially if the cover image of your video looks interesting enough for someone to want to look more at.
If we take a look at this note, as mentioned in my previous article, this area- these first few lines of your note are highly sensitive to outside search engines. Let’s look and see:
“Boston architectural recap from yesterday. This is pretty much a normal day for me , tall beautiful sky rises, old romanesque and Gothic structures. Tall ships should be coming soon. That will be fun.”
Think keywords, hashtags, url code.. “Boston”, “#archetectural”, '“Sky rises”, “#romanesque”
Are you catching on? “Tall Ships” is an event that is held yearly in boston that is soon coming, people will be inputting this string into search engines- soon i will be putting real self-taken photos of those tall ships.
Would you like me to post more articles like this ?
Drop a comment and tell me where your struggling or, drop additional tips/critiques.
To close this article off with this tip on Substack notes, I am writing this article along as I zip through and cut screen shots- let’s draw some connections below.
We have established a way to get our notes out where external engines like Google, Firefox, Dogpile, Facebook, Instagram, etc, etc will pick them up. We are planting seeds all over the internet in a strategic fashion that fits Substack note community and also jacks our computer science knowledge a little bit through their system.
So now, as we conclude an article- we start to think when we are going to schedule it to publish.
We drop a note or two about it before we drop the article to promote it, we drop the article itself, and then we drop a couple notes about it prior, and let’s see what happens.
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