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I'm writing on Medium because its rank well on Google. I have several articles about the product I'm selling that rank 1-5 on Google and it gives me a lot of cu

I'm writing on Medium because its rank well on Google. I have several articles about the product I'm selling that rank 1-5 on Google and it gives me a lot of customers. It'll take me a lot of time to build my own website and content that gives me the same result. So, there's that. Sorry, not a native speaker.

regnerba 7y ago
No need to be sorry. Your English is fine and what you said makes perfect sense. As someone who doesn't post on Medium this is great in helping understand why people use it. So thank you for sharing.
snazz 7y ago
That is an important feature. Not having to convince Google that your domain isn’t a spam cesspool is a major advantage of most any centralized blog/CMS platform (but especially one as major as Medium). Write.as doesn’t seem to work as well for this purpose yet, unfortunately. And your English is plenty easy to understand, no need to apologize about that.
yingw787 7y ago
Your English is great, and it’s great that you prioritize shipping over worrying about which blogging platform to use. Shipping is very important. That being said, I do think a small investment into moving onto your own platform may be worth it, and that might kick in much earlier than you’d think. I use Hugo and a fork of hugo-minimo-theme for my technical and personal writing, and it took maybe three days to set up (granted I have some technical experience). If you paid a contractor to spend a week setting up a statically compiled site with a CMS, you may get competitive SEO without having to worry about content licensing or platform updates. I think statically generated content is generally friendly to search engines. I don’t update my blog infra at all really, and there’s very few steps involved if I needed to relearn how to do it. It is possible to use free open source software and have it get out of your way in terms of making money.
- badestrand 7y ago
  > If you paid a contractor to spend a week setting up a statically compiled site with a CMS, you may get competitive SEO Sorry, but that's just not how it works. The technical part is easy and certainly once piece of the puzzle, but without a certain website age and tons of good backlinks you will never be able to compete with medium.
  - Veen 7y ago
    Domain authority has some importance, but my understanding is that backlinks work per page, not per domain. Your newly published Medium article has the same back link profile as a newly published page on an owned blog.
    - ovidiu 7y ago
      Doesn't Medium suggest articles, thus passing links to new pages? You wouldn't get this benefit on your own blog.
markfer 7y ago
Any tips on replicating the same results? Would love to hear more
nullwasamistake 7y ago
Not sure if this is due to medium or not. Back in the day I used to write articles on business consulting focused on high value keywords. After 7+ years some of them still rank 3-10 on Google for the target keywords. Medium is just easier to spin up than a domain + WordPress. I don't see any other advantages

regnerba 7y ago

No need to be sorry. Your English is fine and what you said makes perfect sense. As someone who doesn't post on Medium this is great in helping understand why people use it. So thank you for sharing.

snazz 7y ago

That is an important feature. Not having to convince Google that your domain isn’t a spam cesspool is a major advantage of most any centralized blog/CMS platform (but especially one as major as Medium). Write.as doesn’t seem to work as well for this purpose yet, unfortunately. And your English is plenty easy to understand, no need to apologize about that.

yingw787 7y ago

Your English is great, and it’s great that you prioritize shipping over worrying about which blogging platform to use. Shipping is very important. That being said, I do think a small investment into moving onto your own platform may be worth it, and that might kick in much earlier than you’d think. I use Hugo and a fork of hugo-minimo-theme for my technical and personal writing, and it took maybe three days to set up (granted I have some technical experience). If you paid a contractor to spend a week setting up a statically compiled site with a CMS, you may get competitive SEO without having to worry about content licensing or platform updates. I think statically generated content is generally friendly to search engines. I don’t update my blog infra at all really, and there’s very few steps involved if I needed to relearn how to do it. It is possible to use free open source software and have it get out of your way in terms of making money.

badestrand 7y ago
> If you paid a contractor to spend a week setting up a statically compiled site with a CMS, you may get competitive SEO Sorry, but that's just not how it works. The technical part is easy and certainly once piece of the puzzle, but without a certain website age and tons of good backlinks you will never be able to compete with medium.
- Veen 7y ago
  Domain authority has some importance, but my understanding is that backlinks work per page, not per domain. Your newly published Medium article has the same back link profile as a newly published page on an owned blog.
  - ovidiu 7y ago
    Doesn't Medium suggest articles, thus passing links to new pages? You wouldn't get this benefit on your own blog.

markfer 7y ago

Any tips on replicating the same results? Would love to hear more

nullwasamistake 7y ago

Not sure if this is due to medium or not. Back in the day I used to write articles on business consulting focused on high value keywords. After 7+ years some of them still rank 3-10 on Google for the target keywords. Medium is just easier to spin up than a domain + WordPress. I don't see any other advantages