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How To Import Existing Blog Posts On Medium For Extra Traffic?

by Bishnu Mahali · Published April 12, 2017 · Updated January 2, 2018

Drive Blog Traffic From Medium

It’s not so long since Twitter co-founder Evan Williams developed medium.com, in 2012. And today we’re going to learn to drive extra traffic to your blog/website from the medium.

But it’s growing very fast, and almost everyone knows about it now. (I mean peoples like you and me.) The image below is a solid proof of it:

Many of us call it a Social Networking site. I say it a Socialized Blogging Platform with some restrictions. And there are many peoples who think the same.

So, according to me, it’s a socialized blogging platform and I’ll take it, in that way.

Okay, Now let’s get to the point! As you are reading this post, I’m sure that you are a blogger.

And since you are a blogger. I assume that you already know about, generating extra traffic by Guest Posting.

We will be applying the same technique here, with a twist. Since here we will be importing our existing old blog posts, this question may arise in your mind…

Hey, Bishnu what about the Duplicate content? Don’t you think that google will penalize it?

Well, Medium takes care of that by implementing the CANONICAL URL method.

Medium links to the original blog posts with a link at the bottom of each story. And also adds…

<link rel="canonical" href="your old blog post URL here " />

in the

<head>

tag to take care of SEO.

The point is, stop worrying – start posting. Like we call them blog posts, They call it Stories on medium.

You can also create Publications which is like a facebook page assigned to your individual account. The publications are the collection of stories by various writers and editors under the control of an Owner i.e., The Creator.

If you create one, then you will be the Owner of that publication and you can manage Writers and Editors to that publication. (like Page Admin on Facebook)

I would recommend that create your own publication and publish each posts under them. Like i created, IT ADDA! & Motivesta!

The benefit of publishing stories under a publication is that both of you and the publication will be in the limelight.

Readers will be seeing the profile of both of you and your publication. And they will also be able to follow you and your publication right from the story. It’s the situation like — “Hunting two targets with a single bullet”.

Now without wasting any more time on the logic side. Let’s jump to the steps of the process…

Step 1: First of all “Click on the Profile Icon” at the top right corner after logging into your medium account.

Step 2: Now “Click on Stories” as shown below in the screenshot…

Step 3: Then “Click on Import a Story“…

Step 4: Now “Enter the URL of the old existing blog post” in the box and “Click on Import” (See the screenshot below for help)

Step 5: Now your blog post is already imported to medium, it’s time to fix if there are any minor errors and make some changes if necessary. To do that simply “Click on See your Story”

Step 6: Now the preview/editing window will be opened for imported post/story. If you want to change the title, then Click on the title to edit it.(see no, 1 in the screenshot below).

If you need some changes on the post edit them as well in the body section of the story/imported post. (see no. 2 in the screenshot below)

After completing the editing of the title and the post body. “Click on the 3 dots (…)” at the top right corner of the page, (see no, 3 in the screenshot below)

Step 7: Now Click on the Add Publication to assign your story to a publication of your own or others (If you are invited as a writer). This is an optional step but I recommended you to do this as it increases the value of the post.

After adding your story to a publication, Click on Customize title/subtitle to customize the title and subtitle of the story if you want. If the title and subtitle are okay, proceed to the next step.

Now, Click on Customize Link to customize the link/URL of the story for SEO purpose. (See the screenshot below)

Step 8: After clicking on Customize Link, Choose the Custom option and type the custom text that you want to add to your URL and Click on Save. See the screenshot below for the demonstration:

Step 9: Now Click on Publish drop-down as shown in the screenshot below. Then enter 5 Most Relevant and Popular Tags for your story. And check mark the share options if you want to share them on your linked facebook and twitter account.

And finally, Click on “Publish” to publish the post.

That’s it, now your old existing blog post is freshly imported on medium and ready to generate some extra traffic and readers for you.

While you’ll be using your medium account to generate some extra traffic and customer, You can also follow us on medium here: http://medium.com/itsitadda

You can also follow me on medium for my interesting stories here — @BishnuMahali.

You can also join us as our Writer on Medium and here in this blog also, Just leave a comment and we will reply you as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Thank you for reading this post! And don’t forget to like, share and comment.

Have a great day!

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Bishnu Mahali

Hi, I am Bishnu Mahali from Siliguri, West Bengal. I am Blogging since a year about Blogging, Content Marketing, SEO etc. I'm also available on all the social networks. Don't forget to join me there too.

Sahil Patil says:

March 16, 2018 at 8:07 am

Really it is very helpful post,for how long I was looking for perfect guide on “how to publish existing blog post on medium” really it is very easy nice experience with you.

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- Bishnu Mahali says:
  
  March 16, 2018 at 9:27 am
  
  Glad you liked it. ✌️
  
  Medium is a great platform to generate high quality backlinks.
  
  Do you use this technique?
  
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Ashish says:

March 29, 2018 at 3:19 am

Hey Bishnu

Medium can be very effective tool to drive traffic. This is very well written and detailed article.
keep up the good work 🙂

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- Bishnu Mahali says:
  
  April 16, 2018 at 8:57 am
  
  Thank you so much that you liked the article. I am also using medium to drive extra traffic to my blog. Have you ever tried it? How is your experience with it?
  
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Nitesh Patel says:

May 1, 2018 at 3:29 pm

Nice post brother. But I have one question. Can I write articles there regarding Tips and tricks related to tech? Can I get significant traffic?

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- Bishnu Mahali says:
  
  May 2, 2018 at 12:31 am
  
  Yes you can, infact I did the same for my tech site IT ADDA.
  
  We import our evergreen tech articles to medium and generating a lot of targeted traffic.
  
  You can do it to with your existing blog posts.
  
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Nitesh Patel says:

May 2, 2018 at 1:38 pm

Thanks brother for your advice

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