Are bloggs published on blog platforms and on our own site be considered duplicate content?

[Scratch_MM]

Hi, SEO wizards! My company has a company blog on Medium (https://blog.scratchmm.com/). Recently, we decided to move it to our own site to drive more traffic to our domain (https://scratchmm.com/blog/). We re-published all Medium blogs to our own website. If we keep the Medium blog posts, will this be considered duplicate content and will our website rankings we affected in any way? Thank you!

[Alick300]

Hi,

Yes that will treated as duplicate content because duplicate content is content that appears on the Internet in more than one place (URL).

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[Hurf]

As Alick has pointed out, this is considered duplicate content.

Appropriate use of the canonical tag can help you overcome this. Take a look at these articles:

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/217991468-Duplicate-Content-and-SEO

https://woorkup.com/medium-seo-canonical-tag/

https://brianli.com/how-to-republish-to-medium-with-rel-canonical-41d1821866e8#.x9hjo2zae

That should give you all you need to rectify this issue.

Good luck.

[Scratch_MM]

Alick300 and Hurf, thanks so much for the answers and especially the resources you shared! Very helpful!