# Web Archives

## Post your newsletters to the web. Share them far & wide.

Buttondown's archives are a breeze to configure.

demo.buttondown.com/sarahchen/archive

Archive • Sarah Chen's Writing Journey • Buttondown

# [Sarah Chen's Writing Journey](https://demo.buttondown.com/sarahchen)

[Chapter Five: We Did It!](https://demo.buttondown.com/sarahchen/archive/chapter-5/)

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[Chapter Four: Launch Week Madness](https://demo.buttondown.com/sarahchen/archive/chapter-4/)

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[Chapter Three: Cover Reveal Chaos](https://demo.buttondown.com/sarahchen/archive/chapter-3/)

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[Chapter Two: The Editorial Gauntlet](https://demo.buttondown.com/sarahchen/archive/chapter-2/)

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[Chapter One: Welcome to My Writing Journey](https://demo.buttondown.com/sarahchen/archive/chapter-1/)

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Your newsletter isn't just email — it's a body of work. Archives give every issue a permanent home on the web, so subscribers can browse your back catalog and new readers can discover what they've been missing.

## Share and control your content.

- **Customize your design.** Our default archive themes look great, but you can go further by tailoring them to your needs. Make your archives look like the rest of your web presence, or just turn everything neon green for some reason.
- **Permalink everything.** Every email gets its own URL you can share on social media, embed in blog posts, or link from anywhere.
- **Hide what you want.** Keep specific emails out of your public archive. You're in control of what's visible.
- **Paywall your best stuff.** Gate archived content behind your [paid subscriptions](/content/features/paid-subscriptions/index.html) so free readers can see what they're missing.

And if you want to keep things inbox-only, flip a switch to turn off your web archive entirely.

## Built to be found.

An archive nobody can discover isn't worth much. Every page we publish is wired up to do well in search engines and look sharp wherever it's shared — no plugins, no configuration, no SEO consultant required.

| What you get | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| ✅ **Rich social previews** | Open Graph and Twitter Card tags so links unfurl into title-and-image cards on Twitter, LinkedIn, Slack, and iMessage. |
| ✅ **Structured data** | [schema.org](https://schema.org/) JSON-LD on every page — emails marked up as articles with author and date, so Google can show rich results. |
| ✅ **Canonical URLs** | Every page declares its canonical URL, so search engines never trip over duplicates — even on a [custom domain](https://docs.buttondown.com/hosting-on-a-custom-domain). |
| ✅ **RSS feeds** | A feed readers and aggregators can subscribe to, advertised with discovery tags so apps find it automatically. |
| ✅ **XML sitemap** | Generated and served automatically, so search engines always know about every page you've published. |
| ✅ **Titles & descriptions** | A descriptive `<title>` and meta description on every page, pulled straight from your content. |
| ✅ **Indexing controls** | Want to stay out of search results? Toggle indexing off and we tell crawlers to leave your archive alone. |

Buttondown has been an amazing experience for me. The service is constantly being improved and customer service is the best. My newsletter with Buttondown has grown from a fairly small list to over 15,000 subscribers, and it hasn't broken a sweat yet.

[Cassidy Williams](/content/blog/cassidoo/index.html)

## Frequently asked questions

### Am I charged for the amount of traffic that my newsletter receives?

No. Learn more about [pricing](https://docs.buttondown.com/billing).

### Will my archives stay online even if I pause or cancel my subscription?

Yes. And you can even continue to collect subscribers. You just can't broadcast to them. Learn more about [pausing your subscription](https://docs.buttondown.com/paused-billing).

### Can I host my web archives on a custom domain?

Yes, if you have a paid plan. Learn more about [hosting on a custom domain](https://docs.buttondown.com/hosting-on-a-custom-domain).

Buttondown is the _last_ email platform you’ll switch to.