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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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