What is Medium
Medium is a website for writers and readers alike. Well, in the
context of this article it is. It’s a hugely popular platform that
enables you to put down your thoughts and opinions about pretty much
anything under the sun.
Hear directly from the people who know it best. From tech to politics
to creativity and more — whatever your interest, we’ve got you covered.
View the medium website here
How can using Medium help my personal website blog reach?
Search Engine Optimisation is a means of optimising your website so that it shows as high as possible in the search results page.
One of the most important factors about SEO is content; what you
write about. Search Engines (think ‘Google’) want to provide their
searcher with high quality results.
It’s important not to duplicate content – eitehr on your own website and definitelyt not by copying content from another website and claiming it as your own, running the risk of being negitively ranked by Google.
Medium allows you to upload your work to their platform directly from your own blog without the risk of this being seen as duplicate content by Google.
Medium use a system that says to Google (and other searcgh engines) that you own this content and that your website is the authoritative website.
This is great because Medium is a seriously high authority website.
The result is that your masterpiece blog that you host on your website,
can only benefit from being uploaded to Medium.
How to submit your blog post to Medium
Medium provides an official tool to upload your blog post to your Medium account.
Once you have published your blog, head over to https://medium.com/p/import (you must be signed into your account) and enter the link to your post. Medium does the rest. It imports the post and allows you to edit it before it’s published.
At the same time, it adds the background setting so that the search engines know your website is the originating website.
The result is no risk of being penalised for duplicated content and the big bonus of soaking up all that lovely link juice provided by Mediums high authority status.
How to use Medium to help your blog reach more people
What is Medium
Medium is a website for writers and readers alike. Well, in the context of this article it is. It’s a hugely popular platform that enables you to put down your thoughts and opinions about pretty much anything under the sun.
View the medium website here
How can using Medium help my personal website blog reach?
Search Engine Optimisation is a means ofoptimising your website so that it shows as high as possible in the search results page.
One of the most important factors about SEO is content; what you write about. Search Engines (think ‘Google’) want to provide their searcher with high quality results.
It’s important not to duplicate content –eitehr on your own website and definitelyt not by copying content from another website and claiming it as your own, running the risk of being negitively ranked by Google.
Medium allows you to upload your work to their platform directly from your own blog without the risk of this being seen as duplicate content by Google.
Medium use a system that says to Google (and othersearcgh engin es) that you own this content and that your website is the authoritative website.
This is great because Medium is a seriously high authority website. The result is that your masterpiece blog that you host on your website, can only benefit from being uploaded to Medium.
How to submityou
Once you have published your blog, head over to https://medium.com/p/import (you must be signed into your account) and enter the link to your post.Medium does the rest. It imports the post and allows you to edit it before it’s published.
At the same time, it adds the background setting so that the search engines know your website is the originating website.
The result is no risk of being penalised for duplicated content and the big bonus of soaking up all that lovely link juice provided by Mediums high authority status.
What is Gutenberg
Winter, err, Gutenberg is coming
If you’ve been using WordPress to write your blog posts, things will soon be changing. WordPress is, as of writing, in version 4.9.8. The number convention used by tech folk is important because the first digit denotes a major release. WordPress 5 is just around the corner and it is a major release! It’s been called the ‘Gutenberg’ release.
Read moreWhy you need to change your password. Now!
As someone who has a keen interest in online security and runs a business that needs to take security very seriously, topics like password security are kinda second nature to me.
I understand the need for strong passwords and how to manage them. But it remains the case that I’m not in the majority.
So, here are some straightforward facts and snippets of advice to, hopefully, help you a) appreciate the need for strong passwords and b) do something about it.
Read moreWill Dropbox Plus meet GDPR requirements?
I wanted a simple answer to a simple question: will Dropbox Plus meet GDPR requirements by May 25 2018?
There’s plenty of information about Dropbox’s plans for GDPR. Much of which mentions their Business plans and GDPR, but there’s little that specifies the Dropbox Plus plan.
Read moreWordPress security quick tips – change the default WordPress admin username
In this, the first in series of WordPress security quick tips, we discuss why you should change the default WordPress admin username.
Depending on how you installed WordPress, the chances are you have a default user called ‘Admin’. Often people stick with this because it’s easy to remember and they don’t realise the importance of changing it.
One of my customers contacted me recently asking why Wordfence was reporting attempted logins by a user called ‘admin’. It was quite disconcerting for her, but I was able to reassure her this was normal and that’s why I provided her a username she doesn’t like!
Read moreWhat is HTTPS and why you should be using it
Why your website should be using HTTPS
HTTPS stands for “Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure”.
A website running over the HTTPS protocol encrypts traffic between the visitor’s browser and the web server running the website.
To run your website over HTTPS, an SLL Certificate from a recognised Certificate Authority needs to be installed on your web server.
Read moreWebcetera is a website development company
Two Years and counting… We’ve been in business for two years now. In that time we’ve formed a company — Webcetera — found new customers and invested in both technology and continued learning and improvement. However, a couple of months ago I met up with some old colleagues and they asked how it was going. […]
What is Search Engine Optimisation
Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is about doing what you can so that your website is listed as high as possible in the organic search engine results pages.
Organic results are search results that appear without paid advertising. They are there on their own merit!
Your website should adheres to good practices as laid out by the major search engines, in particular Google, who have even provided a guide on the subject.
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