Cross Posting to Grange Hall

We're gonna give this a try.

Several writers have asked how they can post an article they have already written and posted on their own site to Grange Hall, the sister site I created that is shared among multiple authors (last count we have north of 15 authors who can post their content there).
While original content is welcome on Grange Hall it is not necessary if you find that you have a particular piece already “in the can” that you think would improve your reach or educate or be a nice fit.

The first step is to become a contributor to Grange Hall. The easiest way for me is to subscribe and I then get to see your email used on your Substack. Once I have the email you use for Substack I go to the Teams heading under settings and Invite you to be a Contributor. When you accept the invitation, I then add you and make you a Contributor. That means that you then have full posting and editing abilities and it should act just as if you were posting on your own site.

To then get an article on Grange Hall the old school way, what I was advising people to do was to copy and paste the article from your site onto the Grange Hall site. I have been asking people to include some bio information about themselves as an introduction and even a blurb about why they chose the article to share or perhaps some of their background or history to personalize it for us. Hit Publish and it will post to Grange Hall.
What’s nice is that you can then restack your own article technically from another site. What this does to the algorithm I’m not the one to ask but I suspect it might be a good thing.

What I am going to try live from Grange Hall today is “reposting” from my momma site Mile Wide and Inch Deep to Grange Hall and see if it works.
The ChatBot on here tells me it should work according to this roadmap it threw back at my question

1. Sign into your Substack account

2. Go to the free post you want to share

3. Click the three dots next to the post and select "Cross post"

4. Add a blurb explaining why you're sharing the post

5. Choose your audience (founding members, paid subscribers, or everyone)

6. Check "Publish cross-post to web" if you want it to appear on your publication

7. Your subscribers will receive an email with your blurb and the entire post

So here goes, I should see it in real time but those of the readers of Grange Hall can tell me how it looks on their end and how you were notified (if you even are).

This is useful information for future authors to write for the site.

There has also been interest to do what Grange Hall is doing (what I am calling a Shared Site for all things Farming) to a more targeted and specific to area of interest. Liz Reitzig at Raw Milk Momma has on her Directory Site multiple areas of interest.

She told me yesterday that she will add another category on the Directory for these types of sites called Shared Site so people will know they can find more than one author’s work on there. Thanks

Liz Reitzig

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Here goes!