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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by mathieudutour on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:24AM (#20061146)
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.

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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by ryanisnan on Friday May 31, 2019 @01:11PM (#20062847)
I don't believe your blog would get any improved SEO benefit from having canonical links to Medium - IIRC, Medium would get the juice.

Furthermore, I don't know how Google handles cross-domain canonical reporting, but if I were writing a search engine, I would treat it as highly suspect.

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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by TrueDuality on Friday May 31, 2019 @01:29PM (#20063027)
You've got it backwards. There will be a header in the Medium post saying "the original source for this content is on this other blog, I'm just a repost". Google does pay attention to that and ranks the canonical source higher.
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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by ryanisnan on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:30PM (#20066059)
I believe they were discussing how Medium does not allow canonical links. I am aware of how canonical links work.
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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by ravenstine on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:27AM (#20061189)
> 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.

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