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David Johnston
David Johnston

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Cross posting from your blog to Dev.to. A good idea?

Been in a bit of a creative rut recently, and I'm figuring that the best thing to do, the thing I'm most inclined to do, is make blog posts about anything and everything.

I definitely want to do this as part of my own blog where I fully control the content. I've learned a lesson (nicely articulated by Austin Kleon in his book Show Your Work) when I ran a 'Humans of' page that was a Facebook page only. It now kinda sucks that all of that content is just on Facebook and I've since lost the original photos, the accompanying text only there etc. I wish I'd set up a blog like the original Humans of New York did.

So the question is - should I cross-publish all of my blog posts to Dev.to and Medium as well?

Is this a common practice? I've had a quick scroll through my Dev.to feed and I can't see many people back-linking to their blog.

As I see it:

Pros Cons
More exposure A bit of work setting it up programatically
Native conversation/reply functionality within the third party mediums Back links on the posts look spammy
Possible adverse SEO affects for the blog?

What say you?

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David Johnston •

Can you explain what you mean a bit more about canonical urls?

You mean I can just point to the URL of my of blog, and dev.to/Medium will make a post out of it? That's fantastic!

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