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Csaba Kissi
Csaba Kissi

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Where do you cross-post your blog articles?

Most of the people cross-post to Medium, here to Dev.to.
Where do you cross-post your articles?

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Kirill Vasiltsov

I cross post here and to my own blog.

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Kristen Kinnear-Ohlmann

When you cross post, are you simply creating a post in each place and adding the same content (copy and paste)?

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Kirill Vasiltsov

Yes

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Kristen Kinnear-Ohlmann

Thanks for confirming! It seems obvious but I wondered if people had a secret for maintaining their content across multiple platforms. The answer is to keep track and make sure all sources align!

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Csaba Kissi

You need to just set the canonical URL for the post to tell search engines where is the original source.

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Francisco Quintero πŸ‡¨πŸ‡΄

I cross posts my blog posts here in DEV and in Hashnode, sometimes πŸ˜„

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Kristen Kinnear-Ohlmann

When you cross post, are you simply creating a post in each place and adding the same content (copy and paste)?

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Francisco Quintero πŸ‡¨πŸ‡΄

Yes, purely copy and paste. Sometimes, depending on where I crosspost, I can improve the look of the texts or code blocks.

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Kristen Kinnear-Ohlmann

Thanks for confirming! This gives me a strategy to start blogging and get my content out to several places.