Discussion on: How to write a VERY HIGH quality post on DEV [13 top tips + a bonus 🤯!]

[Marcin Wosinek]

About bonus tip - you can start very easily at hashnode; add there custom domain & maintain those two blogs very easily. I keep on publishing on dev.to first; but I immediately import the new post to hashnode, and set canonical URL to the hashnode one.

dev.to seems to have bigger community, but hashnode isn't far behind. Being on two both platforms has a side effect of different post getting promoted by one or the other platform.

If you want to join:
hashnode.com/@marcin-wosinek/joinme

[Kolapo Damola Usman]

Hello Marcin
So dev.to has the original article, while you republish on Hashnode, for indexing and SEO purposes
But the bots crawl and recognize the article on dev.to as the original article
Am i right?

[Marcin Wosinek]

Sorry, I was mixing 2 things in my comment.

1. How my articles are available online:

   • the "orignal", with canonicalULR pointing to is at hashnode. I have my onw domain there, and I want to build the SEO of it for long term benefits.
   • I republish at dev.to, medium, hackernoon. If I will find another decect dev blogging platform, I'll probalby republish there too.

2. How it's easiest to achieve it:

   • first, I publish at dev.to - only because dev.to don't have a good importing tool
   • immedietly I import to hashnode - they have nice importer from dev.to
   • I set canonicalULR in dev.to to point to my domain run by hashnode
   • medium & hacker noon have decent import tools, so there I import direclty form hashnode

The dev.to before hashnode is just workaround about tooling the two platforms ofert. My focus is on hashnode - or rather, my own domain.

[Kolapo Damola Usman]

Thanks Marcin that was helpful

[Lucy Linder]

Thanks for the tip @marcinwosinek !
I started using hashnode after reading your comment. I imported all my articles there, and now I have a question for you (as I am still new at this): should I set the canonical url to dev.to on my imported articles, or is it safe to change the canonical url of old articles in dev.to to point to the new article imported on hashnode ? Do you have an advice ? (I am talking only about the old/imported articles. For the new ones, I will set the canonical URL to hashnode).

[Marcin Wosinek]

Hello @derlin! I don't know if moving the articles around hurts your SEO. I was conservative myself, and after migrating my blog I only imported stuff and set the canonical ULR to original dev.to location.