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Discussion on: Dev.to posts with canonical url idexing on google, why?

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GrahamTheDev

The longer you wait the greater chance, but don't underestimate the benefits of syndication.

Waiting 3 months to cross post something is only going to add a tiny chance that it outranks the original due to the factors I mentioned earlier. Once Google has indexed it it knows your content was there first, what Google does after that nobody knows!

Don't worry, the traffic will come on your site, for now you just want eyeballs on your work so people start recognising your name etc. Then they will search you out or stumble across your blog and subscribe there. 👍

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Shivang Chauhan

Yes, i meant waiting 3 months for the already cross posted content to rank below the original content, i think what i'm gonna do now is instead of cross posting same content, i will create seperate content for DEV and my blog and then link some of my blog content under/inside the DEV post.

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Shivang Chauhan • Edited

So instead of cross posting, i will do guest blogging, that way there will be no issue of my main blog content ranking lower than DEV reposted content and also there will be no need to add canonical url to my blog.