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If you reblog your content on a Medium blog to take advantage of their user base it can be a great tool. Don't use it for a primary blog.
by godzillabrennus 8y ago
If you reblog your content on a Medium blog to take advantage of their user base it can be a great tool. Don't use it for a primary blog.
- kuhhk 8y agoDoesn’t that destroy your SEO? I was warned 6+ years ago never to do that, but can’t recall the technical reason.
- technion 8y agoGo back far enough and I remember you would Google a key phrase, and see the first full ten pages being the exact same article, as accordance with some SEO gaming scheme. Google quite reasonably now sees duplicate identical content as an issue, you can use the "canonical" HTML tag can be used to help it see the "real" link where several exist. I don't know what'll happen when there are only two copies of your page, but I'd hazard a guess it'll preference medium's domain over your own in most cases.
- rococode 8y agoI could imagine Google being smart enough to have some tracking between duplicates. If you include a link to your main blog on Medium perhaps it may understand "pages A and B have the same main content, but A contains an additional link to B so B is probably the true source".
- tlarkworthy 8y agoMedium annotates your blog as the original so in general it can be a duplicate conyent problem but for Medium specifically they do the right thing so it isn't
- SamWhited 8y agoThe only way things change is if people don't use it; even just re-blogging verifies and supports their bad behavior.