Where do you post your new blog posts?
I have a process, where every time I write a new blog article I post it to Hacker News, repost it to Medium, repost it to a relevant reddit group (with a backlink), and also tweet it out.
Any recommendations on other places I should post the link/repost? How do you grow traffic in general? I know it takes time and consistency, so I'm not looking for explosive traffic over night, rather, looking for the best way to keep broadcasting new articles that I write every week for the next few years.
Thanks!
PS My newsletter/blog is http://gritlist.co/, where I write about personal growth.
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We have a process where we repost it to Medium, Dev.to, and share it on FB groups, Hacker News, and sometimes Reddit. Do you have a certain strategy for Reddit so it doesn't look too promotional? We are kind of avoiding Reddit due to bad experience, we can't seem to find the best way to approach the community without getting bad comments.
Yep, Raddit is not cool!
Yeah, I looked into it a bit, and what I've found that works (though obviously it doesn't always get upvoted, but that's the same with any system) is to fully repost the content.
Here's my best example that worked well. I create the content on my blog, and then repost the entire article into Reddit. This is generally Reddit best practices imo. I include a single link at the end of the article backlinking to my blog/original content.
When you say "repost" do you mean you link to it from these other places or you copy and paste the same text? Is there an SEO penalty for this? I only ask because I just started blogging too and I'm not sure how best to go about this.
There is a potential SEO penalty, but you can avoid it by using the canonical HTML link tag (<link rel="canonical" href="https://original-article-url.com"> . The basic idea is that Google (and other engines) understand that sometimes content will appear in multiple places, so HTML gives you an opportunity to indicate which content URL is the primary / original URL. Medium, Dev.to, and most other major blogging platforms will give you the ability to define a canonical URL.
So for example, a strategy I've seen is to publish the article on your own blog on your own domain, and then re-post to Medium, Dev, etc, and set the canonical url to the original post on your blog. This will sidestep the SEO penalty, and (I believe) actually transfer some of the "link juice" from the duplicates to the original.
Does Medium allow you to set the canonical link?
They do -- here's a help article: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033930293-Set-a-canonical-link
Yeah, David's answer is spot on. The one additional thing that I would mention is that Google and search engines have come a long way from where they used to be. From what I've researched, having the canonical tag is preferred but even just having the original content on your site with the oldest published date do the same thing.
When Google or another scraper finds the same content, they see which one is the oldest, and then should rank that one ahead of the reposted content.
Granted, who knows how these things actually work, but I feel pretty confident about this which is why I repost my content pretty freely (and use the canonical tag if possible).
Medium even has an import ability to import your articles: https://medium.com/p/import
This has all been educational to me at least. I appreciate the insights.
If you're looking for a way to post to your own personal blog and on my site DevDojo, I've just released a new feature called Developer Blogs (https://devdojo.com/devblog)
You can create your own blog for free and your posts will also appear on DevDojo. If you want to learn more you can check out a demo dev blog on my personal site (https://tonylea.com), this was created with the free blogging platform ;)
I also posted on Medium and soome social media platforms, but in the meanwhile I think keeping the content directly on the website and try to get backlinks to it, like this here:_ https://double-edge.net/2020/08/11/how-to-buy-faq/ Sry, actually this is a SEO test since I´hope to rank for some obscure crypto and blockchain keywords
Heres an example
https://medium.com/@officialTcloud/why-is-privacy-something-you-should-care-about-1e2d46abfea
Once youve made your blog, share it everywhere, Medium is the best place for blogs. With the medium link share it across relevant communities, social media platform.. it really depends what the blog is