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Discussion on: Tech Blog on Your Site or on Medium / Dev.to?

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Benoit COUETIL 💫

if you are looking to build something unique and want to experiment with managing a new site or target a local community, then you should opt for a new domain.

I respectfully disagree. The time to reach a critical audience while starting as nobody on a new domain is too discouraging. And you can publish in any language on platforms like DEV.

I would say : start on DEV no matter what. If you are at a company with tech blog platform, cross-post there and use canonical URL here to there. If you want to experiment your own platform, do the same, cross-post and use canonical URL here to there.

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Antonello Zanini

That is a viable approach too! Thanks for sharing it!

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Farhan Digital

Yess, that's exactly what I'm planning to do as well. The cross-posting + canonical URL strategy is a sweet middle-ground to achieve the best of both worlds.