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If someone can find your work on medium, why would the bother to find your site and read it there instead?

corobo 7y ago
The someone in question is a search engine. Telling them where your content originated from helps you when your content matches future searches
mayankkaizen 7y ago
Your content is backed up. In addition to Medium, your own blog can also attract users. Your website is much more customizable. With some luck and work, your website may perform better in google search.
- kkarakk 7y ago
  That's what archive.is is for(as a reader). if i share an article i usually back it up on archive.is first just in case. your hosted website can go down at any time as well sadly(i see this a lot for ms hosted content)
  - Crinus 7y ago
    What makes impossible for archive.is to go down? Last time i checked it was developed and funded by a single guy (who even seems to have some sort of agenda against cloudflare for some reason).
dmje 7y ago
An archive, you own it, etc... Also you can choose on a post by post basis to publish to Medium or not, and to different publications there, so you could have your site as a hub holding all your stuff and niche audiences on your Medium pubs. Stuff like that.
m0rdecai 7y ago
The canonical handles the indexation. Your content on your own site gets the credit, rather than the corresponding content on Medium. In theory, you're getting a bit of domain authority passed over from the Medium article. Here's an example: https://medium.com/@w00t/the-2018-burning-man-ultramarathon-my-first-50k-5fe3f81ab24e https://medium.com/@w00t/the-2018-burning-man-ultramarathon-... Has a canonical tag pointing here: https://johnvantine.com/2018-burning-man-50k-my-first-ultramarathon/ https://johnvantine.com/2018-burning-man-50k-my-first-ultram... When I search for a snippet of text from the article, the one on johnvantine.com ranks. And you're leveraging the community on Medium, too, so there's some discovery that can happen on that end. Best of both worlds IMO.

The someone in question is a search engine. Telling them where your content originated from helps you when your content matches future searches

mayankkaizen 7y ago

Your content is backed up. In addition to Medium, your own blog can also attract users. Your website is much more customizable. With some luck and work, your website may perform better in google search.

kkarakk 7y ago
That's what archive.is is for(as a reader). if i share an article i usually back it up on archive.is first just in case. your hosted website can go down at any time as well sadly(i see this a lot for ms hosted content)
- Crinus 7y ago
  What makes impossible for archive.is to go down? Last time i checked it was developed and funded by a single guy (who even seems to have some sort of agenda against cloudflare for some reason).

dmje 7y ago

An archive, you own it, etc... Also you can choose on a post by post basis to publish to Medium or not, and to different publications there, so you could have your site as a hub holding all your stuff and niche audiences on your Medium pubs. Stuff like that.

m0rdecai 7y ago

The canonical handles the indexation. Your content on your own site gets the credit, rather than the corresponding content on Medium. In theory, you're getting a bit of domain authority passed over from the Medium article. Here's an example: https://medium.com/@w00t/the-2018-burning-man-ultramarathon-my-first-50k-5fe3f81ab24e https://medium.com/@w00t/the-2018-burning-man-ultramarathon-... Has a canonical tag pointing here: https://johnvantine.com/2018-burning-man-50k-my-first-ultramarathon/ https://johnvantine.com/2018-burning-man-50k-my-first-ultram... When I search for a snippet of text from the article, the one on johnvantine.com ranks. And you're leveraging the community on Medium, too, so there's some discovery that can happen on that end. Best of both worlds IMO.