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Republish on Medium with a canonical

Republish on Medium with a canonical

VerdictMarginal

CategoryDistribution

Last reviewedNovember 7, 2026

The problem

You want more readers for articles that already live on your site.

Steps

  1. Publish on your site first and wait until the page is indexed.
  2. Use Medium’s “Import story” option, which sets the canonical to your original.
  3. Link back to the original in the text.

Evidence

Google’s John Mueller has acknowledged that there is no reliable way to make sure Google sees you as the original source. The canonical is a hint, not a guarantee.

Verdict

Marginal. Reach yes, rankings not guaranteed.

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Dan Keller writes repoSEO and its sister site AEOplays, which reviews AEO plays the same way. Before that he edited King Digest, a newsletter on search, marketing and AI, until he got tired of passing on tactics nobody had checked. He reviews each SEO play against what Google documents and what holds up in practice, and says so when the evidence isn’t there yet.