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Super duper helpful, thank you very much !
I juste want to point out that the option for setting the canonical URL on DEV has now moved to the bottom of the editing view.
It is now accessible by clicking on the little nut thingy :)
Is there a way to automate cross-posting to Devblog from an RSS feed, like on dev.to? Is this in the roadmap? Thank you.
freeCodeCamp /news is a tech publication, and by design, you cannot cross-post. This makes sense since you're requesting to publish a high-quality article that will be edited and optimized, and publication will give you massive reach. This is not bad, but just simply how their platform works and its why it makes it worth submitting for the publication.
DEV can act as a blog, but it really should be thought of as a forum. If you cross-post to DEV, DEV might respect the canonical URL, but they have a "/comments" page generated off of each article that does not include the article's canonical URL, and this page can rank higher than your article.
There is also the uncertainty of DEV's canonical URL being correctly implemented. They use a service worker to update the heading, and I am uncertain if google read the original or the cached header, since google can execute javascript. I have an open ticket on forem/forem and watching it to see if someone else can tell if its working or not.
That being said, DEV is a forum, and its "/comments" page is not bad behaviour when you think of it as a forum. However, if your cross-post there that could impact your organic reach. So I do not cross-post my long-form articles on DEV but I focus on watercooler content, which is how the intent of forums.
Thanks for sharing, I just revamped my 15-year-old domain to be my new blog! I was wondering... Do you think you should publish every article on every platform or put them up randomly so that you share different content over these reblogging platforms?
Import from medium to Devblog doesn't seem to work.
Milica Maksimović, this is such a great article! Thank you for sharing it with the dev community. I also really appreciate the attitude Hashnode has for its contributors. You always make sure that it is a win-win situation. Making everybody aware of the canonical url and its impact is so important. Otherwise, people cannot really build up their own platform. Thank you!
Could I get some more clarity on the canonical URL?
Jérémie Tarot (@silopolis)
FOSS IT Pro, CNC Machinist, Turning into Technical Translation and Writing
Excellent post ! Thanks for sharing :pray: Wondering if LinkedIn support it...