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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by TaylorGood on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:23PM (#15956059)
What about a personal site using Wordpress then repost on Medium for exposure?
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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by JoshMnem on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:59PM (#15957882)
I wouldn't duplicate the content for SEO reasons, even with canonical URLs. You can get a lot of traffic through search engines and other methods.

I don't like landing on Medium posts. That kind of centralized, fast-food publishing monoculture isn't what the WWW is supposed to be. I don't comment on or "like" anything on Medium either. If it were a relatively small site, it wouldn't be such a problem, but it's becoming inescapable now.

I think that tech culture needs a revamp where people start to focus on DIY freedom again: blogs, websites, OSes, hardware, RSS/Atom (vs. AI feeds), etc.

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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by amigoingtodie on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:30AM (#15958204)
From your description, it sounds like medium is the next technorati?
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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by Kagerjay on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:50PM (#15956578)
you can do that but you should look up canonical linking and seo rules for duplicated content
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