FWIW, the formatting of the example blog referenced in the README looks stunningly terrible on mobile.
Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
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Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally, but that's what syndication is all about. The best is to have the original content on your own blog and then to cross post it to Medium, with the canonical link linking back to your blog. That way, if/when Medium is replaced by another platform, you don't loose your content and your have already build some SEO for your blog.
I've heard that Google deranks content it believes to have been duplicated, and I don't know if that's really true but I've been paranoid about copying my existing Medium content to my new blog; if it's true then Google will certainly give precedence to Medium.
It is true yes, that's why the generated blog have a canonical link to medium so that the SEO isn't impacted. So you won't get any SEO for the articles that have been created on Medium but if you create one on your blog first and then import it on Medium (using the import tool, not copy pasting the content), Medium will be nice and put a canonical link pointing to your blog.
Unfortunately, it's not possible to set a canonical link on Medium a posteriori.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally, but that's what syndication is all about. The best is to have the original content on your own blog and then to cross post it to Medium, with the canonical link linking back to your blog. That way, if/when Medium is replaced by another platform, you don't loose your content and your have already build some SEO for your blog.
I've heard that Google deranks content it believes to have been duplicated, and I don't know if that's really true but I've been paranoid about copying my existing Medium content to my new blog; if it's true then Google will certainly give precedence to Medium.
It’s Ok to republish content as long as you provide a link back to the original. That tells Google which version to prioritize.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally, but that's what syndication is all about. The best is to have the original content on your own blog and then to cross post it to Medium, with the canonical link linking back to your blog. That way, if/when Medium is replaced by another platform, you don't loose your content and your have already build some SEO for your blog.
I've heard that Google deranks content it believes to have been duplicated, and I don't know if that's really true but I've been paranoid about copying my existing Medium content to my new blog; if it's true then Google will certainly give precedence to Medium.
Link to the post on your new blog from the Medium post.
Something like the following:
> Source: https://example.com
This should transfer link equity to your new blog post that helps offset any duplication penalty.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#35I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them. The equivalent he…
Totally, but that's what syndication is all about. The best is to have the original content on your own blog and then to cross post it to Medium, with the canonical link linking back to your blog. That way, if/when Medium is replaced by another platform, you don't loose your content and your have already build some SEO for your blog.
Medium used to allow custom domains. They no longer do.
I left Medium, but because I own all of the URLs no links broke. Nor are there duplicate copies with canonical links. So there’s no SEO risk.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard that Google deranks content it believes to have been duplicated, and I don't know if that's really true but I've been paranoid about copying my existing Medium content to my new blog; if it's true then Google will certainly give precedence to Medium.
It is true yes, that's why the generated blog have a canonical link to medium so that the SEO isn't impacted. So you won't get any SEO for the articles that have been created on Medium but if you create one on your blog first and then import it on Medium (using the import tool, not copy pasting the content), Medium will be nice and put a canonical link pointing to your blog. Unfortunately, it's not possible to set a…
> Unfortunately, it's not possible to set a canonical link on Medium a posteriori.
Yeah, that's a problem. :/ I guess I'll continue rewriting my old content so I at least have a shot.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#37Aaah this reminds me of noob me who thought I could just build a blogging platform of my own. Here are some non-trivial features that Medium provides to writers which we just don't notice.
1- Distribution channel
No one is gonna remember the name/url of your blog, Medium allows discovery.
1- Autosave draft
Unless you plan to write your post in one go, in one sitting with an extremely reliable internet connection, you are gonna need this.
3- Social plugin integration- Sure start writing oAuth integrations for each of the hundreds of social plugins out there.
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Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#38..well at the very least it is a form of backup/archiving no?
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#39I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them. The equivalent he…
Welp... that is if you want to interact with the people there.
Youtube lets you make money. Medium just makes readers frustrated.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#40Aaah this reminds me of noob me who thought I could just build a blogging platform of my own. Here are some non-trivial features that Medium provides to writers which we just don't notice. 1- Distribution channel No one is gonna remember the name/url of your blog, Medium allows discovery. 1- Autosave draft Unless you plan to write your post in one go, in one sitting with an extremely reliable internet connection, you…
> 1- Distribution channel
Write searchable posts on topics people actually search for. Post it on Reddit, HN, etc. Those are specifically for distribution.
> 2- Autosave draft
Write it offline, copy paste it for online. Btw WordPress has had this for 10(?) years or something similar.
> 3- Social plugin integration
There are existing solutions for this, see IFTTT, Zapier, etc.