Publishing

Republish on Medium

Republish your markdown article on Medium with a cannonical URL and get all the SEO juice coming from the Medium visitors traffic.

Step by step markdown to Medium

Here's what you do if the Medium API request fails.

1. Visit Medium → New Story.
2. Title: fill the Title input.
3. Content::
   1. Copy the rendered HTML from the Preview tab.
   2. Focus the Tell your story input.
   3. Paste from your clipboard.
   4. Ignore excessive whitespace: it renders alright.
4. Cover image:
   1. Add: drag and drop into content area.
   2. Change:
      1. Open the ••• menu.
      2. Select the 5th Change featured image option.
      3. Select an image from the list.
5. Subtitle:
   1. Open the ••• menu.
   2. Select the 6th Change display title/subtitle option.
   3. Fill the Subtitle input.
6. Tags:
   1. Open the ••• menu.
   2. Select the 7th Change topics option.
   3. Fill the Add a topic... input.
7. URL slug:
   1. Open the ••• menu.
   2. Select the 8th More settings option.
   3. Click the Advanced Settings on the very bottom of the left-hand side menu.
   4. Expand the Advanced Settings.
   5. Check Custom
   6. Fill Type a custom story URL.
8. Cannonical URL:
   1. Open the ••• menu.
   2. Select the 8th More settings option.
   3. Click the Advanced Settings on the very bottom of the left-hand side menu.
   4. Expand the Advanced Settings.
   5. Check This story was originally published elsewhere
   6. Fill Type the cannonical URL....

That's a handful, we feel you.