Discovery

Not every reader you get followed you first. Peakub surfaces publications and book clubs through a feed and an explore surface, based on what a reader already follows and reads - the same logic that gets a new club member into a club they never searched for by name.

What actually moves the needle

There is no setting for "get discovered more." The lever creators actually have is activity - publishing regularly, engaging in book clubs, showing up in other creators' orbit. Discovery rewards what you're already doing, not a setting you configure once.

Keep a publication out of discovery

One switch decides whether your publication can be discovered at all. In the Publish window of your publication, the Peakub Explore switch is on by default:

• On: your publication can be discovered, in Explore, in recommendations, in search and in the directory of publications.
• Off: it is still published. Readers reach it only by its address, by a link or from your own pages, and it is left out of Explore, recommendations, search and the directory. It is also hidden from search engines such as Google: its pages ask not to be indexed, and its sitemap lists nothing. Your subscribers still get its emails, and it still shows on your profile.

Peakub's own feed, search and directory leave it out from its next publish after you turn the switch off. Search engines are told at once.

Turning it off is a good fit for a publication that is meant for people you invite, or for a team's internal one. It does not make the publication private: anyone with the address can read what is public in it.