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Self host, use services for syndication only. Make that Medium and Facebook post, but just make it a link to your website, maybe with a preview. You get self ho
by twhb 5y ago
Self host, use services for syndication only. Make that Medium and Facebook post, but just make it a link to your website, maybe with a preview. You get self hosting without needing to bring your own audience, you get Medium etc’s promotion without needing to surrender your content.
I should disclaim that I haven’t personally proven this out, but it’s advice I’ve often seen and what I plan on doing myself.
- KerryJones 5y agoPosting just a link in Medium? I've never seen that, do you have any examples?
- kevincox 5y agoMedium even supports mirror your posts with the canonical URL pointing to the original. This means that any discovery on medium should help your SEO. I don't mind being on medium, but I want to have a canonical own that I own and that medium-haters can use. Personally I have a static site, and when I make a new post it automatically goes out to Mastodon and Medium as well as a couple of "RSS aggregators" (like https://diff.blog/ https://diff.blog/), as well as a dedicated subreddit as my "comments section". Then depending on the content I will often publish to dev.to (which automatically imports from RSS so it is mostly deleting the <style> block that it doesn't understand and hitting publish) and maybe Hacker News or Lobste.rs (although that is basically never, I generally prefer for others to share if they like the post). But that is my over-complicated setup. At the end of the day I think what matters is own your content. Ideally with a feed on a domain that you control then spread elsewhere as it makes sense.