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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 s
by 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 agoDomain 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 agoDoesn't Medium suggest articles, thus passing links to new pages? You wouldn't get this benefit on your own blog.