Thank you so much for the response, you are absolutely right, i had a talk with one SEO expert today they have suggested the same thing, to wait for my original content to be publicly shown in the google results by serching this query in google search - "site: (url of the new post)".
If the page is there then it means that google is listing that page successfully, this can also be verified from Google Search Console.
So after original content is indexed then i should do cross posting with canonical tag.
He also suggested to wait for 3 months or something and maybe later on google will rank my post higher than the cross posted version because adjusting the page in search results can take time so google may decide to rank the cross posted version below the original post because of the canonical tag after couple of months.
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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. 👍
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.
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.
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Thank you so much for the response, you are absolutely right, i had a talk with one SEO expert today they have suggested the same thing, to wait for my original content to be publicly shown in the google results by serching this query in google search - "site: (url of the new post)".
If the page is there then it means that google is listing that page successfully, this can also be verified from Google Search Console.
So after original content is indexed then i should do cross posting with canonical tag.
He also suggested to wait for 3 months or something and maybe later on google will rank my post higher than the cross posted version because adjusting the page in search results can take time so google may decide to rank the cross posted version below the original post because of the canonical tag after couple of months.
Putting this out here as it may help someone :)
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. 👍
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.
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.