What IS A Canonical Link? A canonical link, also know as a canonical tag “is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or “duplicate” content appearing on multiple URLs. Practically speaking, the canonical tag tells search […]
Feeling Like You Are In A Medium Pressure Cooker?
Three ways to take the pressure off writing daily. I have been a freelance writer for over forty years and I KNOW what pressure feels like. I’ve finished dozens of writing projects by staying up the entire night. NOT a great feeling. Takes too long long to recover from the stress and lost sleep. So […]
Claps On Medium Absolutely DO Influence Your Earnings
How? Through The Psychology of Social Proof In the past few days I have read several articles in which the authors say that the claps you get make NO difference to the amount you earn. I totally disagree, for two reasons. First of all the authors are NOT on Medium’s staff of programmers, so how […]
Does Re-posting An Article on Medium Work?
The answer is absolutely YES! Here are my stats … A few months ago I was looking at my list of articles in my Medium Partner Program stats. There were a pile of articles at the bottom of the list with big $0.00 earnings. I clicked onto the regular stats information for some of these […]