Exactly, nothing beats the full control Wordpress offers. With medium you can’t just control what you want indexed and what you don’t. I haven’t seen any Medium post in the serps yet.
It all depends on preference.
@SkweiRd I don’t think everybody would port to medium, some would still want full control over their content.
What does it mean to have “full control over your content” and in what ways does Medium not provide it? What is the strategic implication of having this “control” and why does it help you do a better job at publishing?
That’s what I want to know.
And @ososoba, Kukuma build your own CMS na. Since you want to own a platform.
Nothing related to SEO is controlled. None of the meta tags can be set manually. The title, description and the post’s friendly URL can’t be set. Like I said, for some of you this might not matter, but for some people it counts for something
How do people find your content on Medium? Any idea how to get this? Do they search through Google and stumble on it? Or do they click on a related post link? You probably wouldn’t know that, because you’re not provided with that data. Which might not matter to you, but for some of us again, it does
Growing an email subscriber list through medium would probably be hard. At the very best, you’d need people to click through a link to get to a subscription page rather than just filling out their mails on a floating form or a sidebar widget. With web experiences, every click introduces some fall out from your conversion flow. Same scenario here, might not matter to some, but not to all.
These are just a few random thoughts off the top of my head. I’m sure that if we tried to drill deep, we’d find 1,000,001 things (obviously exaggerating, because you guys take everything P)
Plus I don’t see why anyone will try to argue that Medium suits all and will work as a perfect solution for all if it were used as a sole publishing platform, that’s like saying everyone must like rice. Can’t we just sha agree it’ll work for some but not for others?
Assess your business needs/goals, check to see if the platform meets all. If it does, by all means stick to it, if not please look elsewhere, life isn’t so hard.
I just wanted to ask that. I think both don’t give the “full control”. What wd be awesome is a Wordpress like Medium that lets you edit source code and add whatever you wish however and whenever with the use of normal code and a text editor which could be online…
@ososoba has given a brilliant feedback to this already [quote=“SkweiRd, post:22, topic:9727”]
What does it mean to have “full control over your content” and in what ways does Medium not provide it? What is the strategic implication of having this “control” and why does it help you do a better job at publishing?
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The points I highlighted above is the major proposition why most people jump to Medium.
Both sides of the table would be right, if they choose Medium or Self hosted platforms like WordPress to publish their blog.
In the long term, the difference will start to show.for example, you can expect Medium to determine how many people see your post (just like with Facebook organic reach for fan pages) and other terms you will have to comply with as a rent seeker on Medium.
If you can afford to invest in a blog, you can cross post on the two platforms.