Would this boost HubPages traffic?

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   theraggededgeposted 2 years ago

   https://medium.com/feedium/my-secret-to … 85ca5ff860

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      CYong74posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I posted some of my blog posts there under this system. Other than the nofollow backlink, it did nothing for me.
      
      I use the same canonical code in my blog too, as it is supposed to help with duplicate/near urls etc. Ended up, it created a mess with services like Semrush.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   I think if I ran my own website, I might be more concerned with stuff like this. I'm sure HP deals with this sort of stuff though. It's in their interest to maximize traffic.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 2 years ago

   That seems incredible. I wonder if there's an English language version available so that I can understand it.

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      theraggededgeposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      It means you can publish articles on Medium that have been published elsewhere, such as HubPages. When you publish on Medium, you tick a box which signals to Google that the article 'lives' somewhere else, and so The Medium version is ignored in the search results. That means you can publish on Medium and earn from the internal traffic there without it impacting the original article.
      
      "In doing this, you tell Google that the article you’ve just posted on Medium is not the master article on the web; instead, the link you added the canonical link to is the master article."
      
      So, in effect, it also provides a backlink to your HubPages article thus making it more likely to rank higher in Google results - I think... I'm probably mistaken but I have a couple of articles I might try it with.

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         lobobrandonposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         It does not create a backlink but the other points are right. You can earn from medium views without worrying about duplicate content. I thought of doing this 2 years ago, but gardening stuff just won't do well on Medium so I quit mid-way while copying an article.
         
         In your case, it definitely is worth a shot.

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            NateB11posted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Do you know if you have to use the canonical tag for it not to affect duplicate content? I have an old article on a blogging site that doesn't pay. I was going to put that article on medium and was trying to figure out if I should delete it on the other non-paying site or just leave it there.

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               lobobrandonposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               You have to use a canonical tag if you do not want a duplicate content issue. If that article of yours is not doing well on the blog and if there are no other copies of it on the internet then you could just delete it and post it without a canonical tag, otherwise it is a good idea to post with a canonical tag.

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                  NateB11posted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  Okay, thanks, Brandon. Makes sense.

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            eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            My string trimmer troubleshooting article I posted there last November hasn't got any organic views from Google. Is that unusual? Anything posted here gets organic views within weeks or a month.

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               lobobrandonposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Did you use a canonical tag pointing to HP?

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                  eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  No, just a backlink. The content isn't word-for-word duplicate though. The URL isn't indexed either when I search for it and it doesn't show up in SERPs as a backlink on my blog.

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                     lobobrandonposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                     Seems like a medium issue then. If it were a canonical link then it would make sense that it is not indexed. Have you tried contacting their support?

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                        eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                        This was their reply when queried:
                        
                        "You can read about SEO on Medium in our help center.
                        
                        Keep engaging with the Medium community and publishing your best work. It can take days to weeks to hit the thresholds required to be indexed"

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                           lobobrandonposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                           Typical bureaucratic reply. Check your page source code. Does it have a no-index tag. If it does not then there is not much medium can do to make Google crawl that link. The best you could do if there is no no-index is build a link to it from HP or your blog so that Google can find the page. Maybe medium does not have a sitemap where it is listed or the page is not linked to from any of the currently indexed pages. This could mean that Google no longer finds the page.

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         Misbah786posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         That sounds great, Bev
         Thanks for sharing this information

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      NateB11posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I'm with you on that, Rupert. I quit reading after I saw the words, "canonical tag". But now that Bev explained it I do kind of get it.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 2 years ago

   Surely, they're going to catch on to this long before I've been able to figure it out.

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