Why I love posting to Medium.com

(Originally written March 2018, updated January 2020.)

Medium.com has better SEO (search engine optimization) than most websites, and certainly my own blog.

I tested these two situations for six months each:

(1) Posting my writing to my website blog first, making sure it was indexed, thenimporting into Mediuma few days later.

(2) Posting on Mediumfirst, then copying to my own blog a week later.

The second method— posting to Medium first —always wins SEO for the keywords in the article.My content...