Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned

Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by forgotpassagan on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:41AM (#15958252)

Medium in it's purest form is a blatant SEO siphon from your website. Well written articles will generally place highly on Google's search results no matter the domain(unless you've got shady shit going on). God knows what metrics they're using these days (mostly ML?) But Google readily recognizes articles well written from expert sources in my opinion. I've only written around ten blog posts but they're all first page, some first result, for my goal keywords.

And this is on a no-name website not optimized for SEO at all. The SEO arms race has been going on so long that we've reached a point where, if you're a good writer, it's easier to follow Google's guidelines than try to cheat the system.

Medium and other blog sites are basically a guest blog, except you're not getting paid for placement. Google ranking is everything and posting on medium does nothing but hurt you gravely

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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by fphilipe on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:48AM (#15958272)

> Well written articles will generally place highly on Google's search results no matter the domain(unless you've got shady shit going on).

Absolutely. I've written two blog posts on PostgreSQL on topics that, in my opinion, weren't well covered and often misunderstood by its users. Both posts show up on the first page on a google search for "psql cli" and "postgres timezone".

I honestly never understood this whole fuss about SEO. In my opinion SEO is about good content. Good content over time will spread, which will result in a higher ranking.

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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by forgotpassagan on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:37AM (#15958677)

Google heavy promotes articles that use their Google Analytics and have high time-on-page scores. Everything Google does with search ranking is gameable but built to focus on high quality content. The best thing about having a couple high ranking pages is that it becomes much easier to make others. Your trust score is already high so there's a good chance other articles about postgres will also reach first page, even if they're not about specialized topics. This is what the SEOtards fail to understand

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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by stevekintor on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:53PM (#16026901)

Wait presumably you have lots of high quality inbounds links, or lots of shares on social, or almost no one elsr is writing about the same topics you are.

I see no other way you could be front page ranking just by publishing.

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