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Ask HN: So where do I put an article, so it's discoverable, if not on Medium?

• aheckler 6y ago
  If you already have a website, maybe just make it a page there? No need to make a whole "Blog" section with this as the first entry. If it has anything to do with code, maybe a GitHub Gist?
  • Nowado 6y ago
    I don't have a website. Well, at least not one for which it would make sense to add this specific post to. Speaking of GitHub-things, I was considering GitHub Pages as a whole solution, but I'm just not that familiar with current 'space' and I'm looking for options.
• deleted 6y ago
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• OldSamaritan 6y ago
  https://telegra.ph/ https://telegra.ph/ is a place... But you have to take care of making it searchable and findable by yourself.
• greypowerOz 6y ago
  a free "problem_name.wordpress.com" type setup might suit your needs? https://wordpress.com/free/ https://wordpress.com/free/
  • Nowado 6y ago
    I'm not sure if I'll go with WP specifically, but using problem/title the way free hosting platform expects me to use username is definitely a convenient work around.
• quickthrower2 6y ago
  Contact me via my profile details and I’ll try to help you! I’d need to know your niche. I fancy the challenge! I been posting stuff for a while so quite adept at getting a most amount of eyes on a tech post. However if you prefer I post a tip here: ... try subreddits and get involved with the communities and understand their norms about sharing links.
  • Nowado 6y ago
    I mean... I didn't mean to make it a 'launch', as it really is a tiny problem in a small space, but if that's your niche, you're about to get a PM^^ After some stalking I went with LI, as I can't find any more accessible way (can't PM your Twitter).
    • quickthrower2 6y ago
      Yeah I’m not talking about a launch. Sounds like you need help finding your tribe online. I might be able to help even though I might not be experienced in that area of tech as the principles of how to share and promote blog posts are somewhat universal
      • quickthrower2 6y ago
        Just noticed my site doesn’t have a contact so will add that now to HN profile
      • Nowado 6y ago
        It will be weird, as I happen to have background in marketing and I used to tell people about tribes and stuff 10 years ago, but sure ;)
        • quickthrower2 6y ago
          You are probably better than me then at this stuff but a second pair of eyes can be useful.
• SubGenius 6y ago
  You could use Gurlic. Here's an example. https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i Themed: https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked Gurlic supports custom domains too, by the way: https://classics.wtf https://classics.wtf (this is a publication hosted on gurlic) https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii The main site that I shared with HN about a month ago already has a handful of users, but nobody is actively writing articles. I'm happy to hand out a free .COM domain to anybody who wants to help test Gurlic's article editor. https://gurlic.com https://gurlic.com if you want to check out the rest of the site..
  • Nowado 6y ago
    How does it do on Google? I'm obviously not expecting it to do amazingly and I know off site SEO can be done. But, assuming you are tracking that kind of information, are there posts consistently getting hits from our Google overlords? As much as I like optionally-self-hosted tumblr-like idea, reasonable expectation of getting search engine to rank 'quite high' when, say, 3 fairly niche keywords combined appear in the title and throughout the post would be a benefit.
    • SubGenius 6y ago
      I can see a lot of spider activity in my logs, but it's only been a month so far. I have not promoted it beyond one HN post and a reddit one. I don't think I want to do too much tracking, not with third-party analytics anyway. Communities and users can be entirely anonymous, so tracking would be antithetical.
  • webmaven 6y ago
    > You could use Gurlic. Here's an example. Gurlic looks interesting, but I find the juxtaposition of long form content in your examples vs. the tumblr-esque timeline on the front page of the site a bit odd. Note that on mobile, following the footer links I glimpsed (including the 'about' page, which presumably could clear things up) is defeated by the infinite scrolling. A 'hamburger menu' in the header would improve access to these global navigation links.
• toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Substack
• Jugurtha 6y ago
  GitLab/GitHub pages? Long ago, I took notes[0] for myself and put them in a repo. It was easy to set up GitLab to build them. I also had blogs. As a student living in an underbanked country, I wanted to trade stocks. I jumped through hoops to find a broker in the U.S. that would allow me to do that. I contacted so many that when I found one, I started a blog just for the article. To get going, I needed a MasterCard. I jumped through so many hoops, literally knocking on banks' doors, being given conflictin/inaccurate/incomplete information, that when I finally go the card, I put up that article in the blog [almost a thousand comments and replies, hundreds of thousands have read it, and I became the 'internet payments' guy in the country] - [0]: https://jhadjar.gitlab.io/kbase https://jhadjar.gitlab.io/kbase - [1]: https://dzdinars.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/carte-visa-mastercard-en-algerie/ https://dzdinars.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/carte-visa-masterc...
  • marketgod 6y ago
    Congratulations this is a nice setup as well.
• fattybob 6y ago
  here isn't a bad starting place
• futhey 6y ago
  If you like Medium's writing interface, use it. Just be sure to publish your articles without opting in to monetization, if you want your content to live outside the paywall. It'll still be discoverable through Google (I get >1m reads through Google / Bing / Social). Medium gets a lot of well-deserved hate because they employed some super scummy tactics in the past. For example, they won't promote your content on their network though unless you opt-in to monetization. Which sucks. But they're backing off on some other points like asking guest users to sign in or click through a popup before reading an article. Substack is super polished, if you haven't tried it. Similar interface & setup.
• inquirerofsorts 6y ago
  The problem is writing something good. Not SEO. Sort out the first one and the other will follow.
  • Shorel 6y ago
    This doesn't address the issue of plagiarism by SEO peddlers. How can an original article be the top result when a carbon copy with better SEO is up there just some hours after the original appears?
• su1000 6y ago
  Try blogspot free hosting and then by a domain. Also then monetize it and donate the money
• hotgeart 6y ago
  https://dev.to https://dev.to ?
• commonturtle 6y ago
  I'd just post on blogspot or a free blog from wordpress.com. Then use HN / Reddit / Twitter for discoverability instead of relying on Medium.
• rajanmr 6y ago
  Best option is to approach a blog in your niche and offer them guest post. This way you get your content published and they get fresh content. Both are benefitted.
• 7174n6 6y ago
  https://write.as/ https://write.as/ the most simple blogging experience on the web.
• Simulacra 6y ago
  Have you considered an analog pathway such as a technical journal? Edit: Just as I clicked submit.. What about a white paper on your website? Just leave it there and load it up with SEO.