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by tkrunning 8y ago
Shhh... ;)
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by tkrunning 8y ago
IMO, it's not too surprising that they tried to be a bit more writer friendly initially (to attract more quality writers and larger publications). I guess it no longer fit with their new business objectives, which is why they quietly r
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by tkrunning 8y ago
Good point! I'll update it :) I just threw the site together in a few minutes before publishing the post (experimenting with Gatbsy), so literally just added a max-width and changed the font styles.
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by tkrunning 8y ago
This is definitely true. What I'm referring to in the article is cases when you've done a proper update of the article to make sure it's up to date, added new information, etc. I actually hope Google will start comparing vers
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by tkrunning 8y ago
Medium has quietly removed the support article describing this, but it used to live here: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/227017408-Set-cano... Sadly, it's not archived anywhere I could find, b
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by tkrunning 8y ago
I'm not surprised and as I say in the article "A heads-up would have been nice, but still, that's their prerogative." I do understand why they would want to move in the direction they are, but I also think authors in par
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by tkrunning 8y ago
It's not only a problem with the search engines' own rankings, it's also that people are less likely to click an older article on the SERP.
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by tkrunning 8y ago
It depends on the content and the type of updates you make. As long as I do a significant update to an article, and make sure it's generally up to date and still entirely relevant, then I'll update the date to match. When people l
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by tkrunning 8y ago
Feel free to take a look for yourself: https://cl.ly/93ce51946717 I just removed the support agent's name (no need to name names), otherwise the emails are complete.
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by tkrunning 8y ago
I don't think Medium is able to plug the hole that easily, but they might tell me to stop doing it or plug the hole just for me. I don't believe I'm violating their ToS, but you never know how they would interpret it.
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by tkrunning 8y ago
I don't believe I'm violating their ToS, but you never know how they would interpret it. That's why I'm not sharing it publicly. But feel free to email me on mediumtrick at nomad dot email.
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by tkrunning 8y ago
I only set up this blog for this specific article, so haven't given following much thought, but yes it does have RSS ( https://bts.nomadgate.com/rss.xml ). And people do still use that. My main blog ( https://n
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by tkrunning 8y ago
Luckily, it's no longer 2004, so no one in their right mind would start out blogging there ;) I personally prefer Jekyll or Gatsby on GH Pages or, even better, Netlify. But if you're less technically inclined, WordPress.com is fin
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by tkrunning 8y ago
Typically, less than 5% of an article's traffic has been coming from Medium for me (that's true for unpopular articles as well as more popular ones with more than a quarter million views). So don't give the "visibility a
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by tkrunning 8y ago
Ha, that's funny indeed! I emailed with Josh a few times (regarding GDPR stuff) and he seems like a great guy!
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by tkrunning 8y ago
The article limit only applies to their "premium" content. Any random article you post there can be read by anyone. Still, post primarily on your own domain!
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by tkrunning 8y ago
It obviously depend on your niche, but as long as it's not super competitive I've had pretty good success appearing in the top 10 with articles posted on my own (fairly new) domain. Perhaps the best advice I can give is to don&#x2
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by tkrunning 8y ago
Medium has become the go-to publishing platform for more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. However, I'd argue that most people would be much better off publishing content on their own domain. This is especially true for "ever
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Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium(bts.nomadgate.com)
271 points by tkrunning 8y ago|136 comments
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Here’s Alphabet’s Pitch to “Smart”-ify Your City(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by tkrunning 10y ago|0 comments