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Why You Should Republish Your Blog Content On Medium

October 21, 2016 By Tiffany Sun 32 Comments

People are republishing their content on different sites more than ever. LinkedIn. Facebook. Quora. Flipboard. Even sites like Business 2 Community and The Huffington Post.

Why You Should Republish Your Blog Content onto Medium

My question, is why aren’t you?

Especially when there’s a new social platform going full throttle with 800k+ visitors coming on a daily basis. Let me introduce you to Medium.

Compared with other platforms, Medium is the perfect place to share your stories ,  whether you do so for personal or for business reasons. How is it ideal? Well for one, it’s free. Secondly, the engagement rate is impressingly high.

Now I can go on and on about all the amazing things Medium has to offer. But for your convenience, I’ve put everything in a nice nutshell.

Table of Contents

  • Advantages of Republishing Your Content on Medium
    • 1. More exposure
    • 2. More traffic to your site
    • 3. Spread your name
  • Why People Don’t Republish Their Content
  • So Should You Republish Your Blog Content Onto Medium?
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Advantages of Republishing Your Content on Medium

1. More exposure

If you’re a small-to-moderate business, you’d probably kill to get 1,000+ daily visitors to your site. The truth is that most successful websites get about 100 unique visits a day. And how many daily views you get determines how many potential customers, users, or subscribers you can gain.

Now Medium has 800k+ daily viewers scouting around for something valuable or fun to read. Wouldn’t it be a smart move to promote your site by jumping on board the fastest trending social media platform? And just so you know, 800k+ daily views is about the same amount of web traffic Macy’s gets as the 10th leading retail website in the U.S. Think about that for a minute before making your answer.

Of course, your answer should be yes!

In fact, you can get just as much exposure on Medium as you do through Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

2. More traffic to your site

Medium is my site’s (Rabbut) #1 source of traffic, and it still amazes me to see how many of our sign-ups come from Medium. Not only have we gotten more users to try out our product, but we’ve also gotten a 36% increase of subscribers for our Rabbut blog.

Get More Traffic to Your Site By Republishing Content On Medium

This success is all thanks to our republished posts on Medium. All you need to do is provide your site link at the bottom of your Medium post to direct curious readers to your site.

Anyone who reaches the bottom of your post obviously enjoys what you’ve written. So why not give people the opportunity to check out the work you do by adding your site link in your post?

3. Spread your name

Medium isn’t quite flooded with content compared to LinkedIn and Twitter. That’s good news for you because then you have a better chance of getting your content right in front of people’s eyes. As long as you use appropriate tags to describe what your article is about, you can gain a wider audience.

Spread Your Name Using Medium

The more people see your name, the deeper it sinks into their heads. And before you know it, everyone will start recognizing your business and what you do.

Why People Don’t Republish Their Content

Despite all of the amazing benefits you can get from republishing content onto Medium, many people still don’t do it. In fact, they sweat with hesitation. And it’s because of this:

Google’s duplicate content penalty.

Dealing With Google's Duplicate Content Penalty When Republishing Content

You can clearly see this fear by reading through the comments on Chelsea’s post, How to Get More Traffic from Every Post by Republishing on Medium.

People are afraid to lose content authenticity from their own sites to other sites. They’re afraid Google will get angry and knock SEO points from their sites, bringing them down to the lowest rankings.

Well, let me break the good news to you:

There’s no such thing as a duplicate content penalty.

Take it from the very words of the Google webmasters themselves. Even Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team, said you should not worry about it.

You see, Google doesn’t care about you posting duplicate content as long as it’s not spammy or keyword stuffing. Google only cares about giving users the best possible results based on the keywords the user types in the search box.

So if Google sees several webpages offering the same content, their algorithm will select the one that best offers the information required and list that page in the search results. Being listed usually requires having rich, unique, relevant, informative, and remarkable content.

Keep in mind that you can’t guarantee SEO. For a better chance that Google will rank your site first, you’ll need to publish your content on your site and then wait until Google indexes it. A good way to check if it has been indexed or not is by Googling your blog post URL in the search bar (see below).

How to Check to See If Your Content Is Indexed By GoogleIf you see your blog post in the search results after Googling it, it’s been indexed already.

Once your post has been indexed, it’s relatively safe to republish your content onto Medium and gain the benefits of exposure, traffic, and brand awareness.

So Should You Republish Your Blog Content Onto Medium?

Definitely!


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Tiffany is the creator & marketer of Rabbut — a writer’s best friend for collecting emails for Medium, Linkedin, and personal sites. Top Medium writer for life hacks, productivity, startups and relationships.

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Comments

  1. Galagali P says

    November 8, 2019 at 1:12 am

    The first thought that came into my mind after reading your headline was – Google’s duplicate content penalty. Now it is clear. Thanks

    Reply
  2. Jayant Patel says

    March 30, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    Medium is getting more popular in other countries too such as India, and European countries. Medium is a popular way to get instant views for your article. Definitely, I will try it.
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  3. balvinder singh says

    March 26, 2017 at 11:44 pm

    medium is just a platform to get organic traffic for your website or blog. i like to post on medium because i i get traffic on my blog via medium.
    by the way this article tell more benifit of medium which are also acceptable . this article is very helpful for those who are confused with medium
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    Reply
  4. Ankita says

    March 4, 2017 at 3:26 am

    Really Nice Tips For The Blog
    I Will Try Them On My Blog
    Thanx For THESE tIPS
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    Reply
  5. Atul Khanna says

    January 19, 2017 at 12:50 am

    Thanks for the blog..really helpful in spreading information at different platform about the blog and website content…..it might also help in increasing business or reaching people easily and quickly

    Reply
  6. Williams says

    December 30, 2016 at 4:09 am

    Thanks god you saved my money. Cause there are peoples who are charging 50 to 200 dollar just to publish your guest post on medium. I was about to order a gig and just read this article and you saved me. It means i can just republish my website original content on medium and they will accept the content of website. Can you please guide me whether they will accept it or not? Cause i heard that they only accept original content? is that right?

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      January 3, 2017 at 10:34 pm

      Hi Williams,

      You can find out more about republishing on Medium in https://smartblogger.com/republishing-on-medium/
      Gail Gardner would love you to read ..4 Amazing Gadgets to Help You Work SmarterMy Profile

      Reply
    • Tiffany Sun says

      January 3, 2017 at 11:21 pm

      Hey William,

      I’m a little confused, because there’s no guest posting on Medium. But you can create your own Medium account and just start republishing your content from your website for free.

      This might help you get started: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-connect-your-wordpress-blog-to-medium/

      Hope that helps!

      Reply
  7. Narinder Kumar says

    December 21, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    Thanks for sharing awesome stuff it’s really helpful for me to republish over blog article in medium.

    Reply
  8. Segun Isaac says

    October 26, 2016 at 3:12 am

    Thank you Gail i will go through 4 Marketing Mistakes That Are Keeping Your Business Down. Hopefully i will learn new tricks i can apply to grow my business.

    Reply
  9. Maria Petar says

    October 25, 2016 at 5:33 am

    Our company works since 2009 we have many clients all over the worl and this year we decide to create a personal website to get new customer as we are growing. And while investigating the field of software development I understood that there are so many compatitors in it. So, it was hard for me to build a strategy how to grow in Google rankings. Thanks to your website I find a lot of useful tips how to do that. And this article is one more powerful cool tip how to use Medium for my business. Thanks

    Reply
  10. Ravi Chahar says

    October 25, 2016 at 4:10 am

    Hey Tiffany,

    Medium is one the biggest social network now. People share their content to get more exposure to their blog posts. For bloggers, the best thing is to get more traffic to their blog.

    Medium can help them to attain a better authority. Building a brand is required for business owners. Medium is the platform for them.

    Thanks for sharing the info.
    ~Ravi
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    Reply
  11. Mark says

    October 24, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    Thanks for clearing up the mystery Tiffany!

    Because I was definitely worried about how Google
    might potentially react to republishing my content.

    And even though I haven’t previously heard of Medium, it’s great to
    know an authority such as Matt Cutts has finally put the rumors
    about Google and republishing content to rest!

    And thanks for sharing an extremely valuable potential resource!
    Mark would love you to read ..How Savvy Entrepreneurs Effectively Use Email Marketing Even if You Totally Suck At Writing!My Profile

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    • Tiffany Sun says

      October 25, 2016 at 3:31 am

      Yeah, I was worried myself I’d get penalized by Google for having duplicate content. But they’re more chilled than you think – as long as you’re original and don’t jack content, word per word, from other writers, you’re all good. 🙂

      Reply
  12. Ajay says

    October 24, 2016 at 11:53 am

    Thanks for your valuable post, it help me lot because i am mostly repulish my contant. Tnanks again for informative article
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    Reply
  13. Maximus says

    October 24, 2016 at 7:35 am

    Hi.
    You give the best information on blog submission. You give the detailed description on blog republishing. Thanks for sharing this information.

    Reply
  14. Shilpi Virtual Assistant says

    October 24, 2016 at 7:17 am

    Thank for a detailed post on using medium for republishing. What we need is to get a decent amount of daily visits at the end of day. Will definitely use it.

    Reply
    • Tiffany Sun says

      October 24, 2016 at 7:25 am

      There’s more on how you can leverage Medium once you start writing. 🙂

      If you’re looking to get more attention for your posts, this course (it’s free!) can help you.
      http://rbt.space/getyof0ad

      Best of luck!

      Reply
  15. cbetter says

    October 24, 2016 at 5:17 am

    Nice share now i get to know the importance of republishing its really important aspect thanks a lot for sharing such a helpful and amazing article.
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    Reply
  16. Segun Isaac says

    October 24, 2016 at 4:43 am

    Google doesn’t care about you posting duplicate content as long as it’s not spammy or keyword stuffing. Really? i have always thought that google will penalise you if you do that. Thank you for sharing and by the way nice article.

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      October 24, 2016 at 4:55 pm

      Hello Segun,

      Google filters duplicate content out of their index eventually, so if you don’t specify which location should stay in the index they may remove the copy on your site and leave the republished version somewhere else.

      The other challenge is that if you don’t use canonical to tell them which copy is the original, if you republish on a larger site they will get the listings instead of your site.
      Gail Gardner would love you to read ..4 Marketing Mistakes That Are Keeping Your Business DownMy Profile

      Reply
  17. Dhaval Parmar says

    October 24, 2016 at 2:31 am

    this is a great article, that really makes you re-think the overall content of article and purpose of your post.

    Thanks for this informative post.

    Reply
    • Tiffany Sun says

      October 24, 2016 at 7:27 am

      Glad it helped, Dhaval. 🙂

      I’ll be pumping up some more helpful Medium tips & growth hacks here. Stay tuned here!

      Reply
  18. Sadhna Visariya says

    October 24, 2016 at 1:54 am

    Nice article. When I read the title of this blog post, the first thing that came to my mind was if i reshare my blog content on Medium, Google might penalize me.
    Thanks for clearing my doubt and opening a new avenue of promotion for me 🙂
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    Reply
  19. Suresh Kumar says

    October 23, 2016 at 4:23 am

    hello mam thank you posting this informative article please tell me is reposting content harm my post ranking on google and i got new ranking on google if i update a article
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  20. Investment Hunting says

    October 22, 2016 at 11:42 pm

    Thanks for the introduction to Medium. I’ve never heard if it. Sounds promising though. I’m definitely going to see if it’s a good fit for me.
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    Reply
    • Tiffany Sun says

      October 25, 2016 at 3:40 am

      I’m not too surprised. 🙂 Medium is still untapped, but those who’ve used Medium already know how much exposure it can bring them. I’d highly suggest trying it out. I know in the beginning it might not look promising, but once you keep pumping out content, you’ll eventually gain a loyal audience and build your authority.

      If you like, this course (which is free) will definitely help bring more attention to your post: http://rbt.space/getyof0ad

      Best of luck!

      Reply
  21. Abir says

    October 22, 2016 at 7:46 am

    the post is about republishing content on medium is very effective. the medium discussed here is really needed to drive traffic and spread name.
    Thanks for such an awesome post.
    Abir Dutta

    Reply
  22. Rob LaPointe says

    October 22, 2016 at 7:25 am

    Amazing tips for good blog :-)The above given tips are really helps
    Blogs are the reflection and thoughts of a person and some become mega-famous while others have their own aesthetic spin which leaves a bold impression on its viewers. To write a blog is tough work but many make it work and it opens up a whole new world of writing. To begin you do not have to be a naturally born writer but understand the basics which I will list below that will enable your skills to refine themselves and give you a fantastic blog.

    Reply
    • Tiffany Sun says

      October 25, 2016 at 3:43 am

      Thank you Rob. 🙂

      I really do believe blogs are the mere reflection of who you are and what you believe in. And the hardest part is sharing your stories to an audience who have no idea you exist. That’s part of the reason why I even started Medium, and right now I’ve made it to the point where every post I write, gets about 100 recommends (the equivalent of ‘likes’) on its own.

      If you haven’t tried Medium, I strongly recommend it. 😉

      Reply
  23. mohammad syed says

    October 22, 2016 at 4:30 am

    ThanksIt is an interesting article for the business administrator it is very excellent. In this article there no such things which are not helpful to the business persons

    Reply
  24. jay patel says

    October 22, 2016 at 12:04 am

    You gave us lots of information, along with samples that are very helpful for we beginners. Thank you.

    Reply

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