Hi! I first wrote an article on my medium blog but am now launching my site. a) how can I get a canonical tag on medium without importing and b) any issue with claiming blog is original when medium was posted first?
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Hi!
As above, I wrote this article on my medium blog but am now launching my site, UnderstandingJiuJitsu.com. I have the post saved as a draft because I don't want to get pinged by google.
a) how can I get a canonical tag on medium without importing and b) any issue with claiming the UJJ.com post is original when medium was posted first?
Thanks and health,
Elliott
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Oops, had another article open. Just saw it, post is now up!
Thank you!!
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I haven't done this before but it seems instructions on the page I linked explains how to do it from the story page of an existing post. Did you check that out?
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Awesome, thank you Chris. Any insight into how to get the canonical tag into the medium post after it's already put up (vs importing)?
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Here's Medium's info on adding a canonical tag to your content there: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033930293-Set-a-canonical-link
There's no problem claiming it's original on your site if you wrote it, even if it was first posted elsewhere, so long as you wrote it and you use the canonical tag. Will you get dinged by Google for the move? Well, you are moving content from a very strong domain to a very new one so it's not likely to show up in the results as well as it did over on Medium.
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