Hello dev fellows!
I have recently got registered for Partner's Program on Medium and I am confused now.
Before that I used to write a single tech post for dev and medium and share it on both sites. But now I feel confused and unfair to post the same post for free here and for member's only (monetized) on medium.
How do you guys tackle it? What is your advice?
Top comments (3)
Hmmm... that's a good question, Aneeqa!
I don't know much about Medium's Partner's Program or its terms, so let that qualify my advice... but, if you wanted a compromise, you could give Medium early access and post to their platform first (say 2 weeks before) then share here on DEV afterward. If you do this, I'd just give a solid read through the terms and see what they have to say about exclusivity. Of course, there's also the chance that someone else in our community knows!
On another note, if you decide to post your articles to Medium first and want that source to be the primary source that is prioritized in searches, I'd recommend inputting the canonical_url whenever sharing your posts. This will make it so that any SEO crawlers will see that your post was shared on Medium first and they should prioritize indexing the Medium version over the DEV version; I emphasize "should" because when it comes to SEO there's so much gray area and different factors that I can't confidently confirm it will rank higher 100% of the time. And in case you need direction on how to do this, I noticed that just yesterday @antweiss wrote a guide showing how to do this:
Adding a canonical url to dev.to posts (in basic markdown editor)
Ant(on) Weiss ・ Apr 2
Thank you for the awesome piece of advice @michaeltharrington !
Continue on Medium or just write free posts on dev.to