Syndicating content to third-party sites may not be safe. If don’t support the use of the rel="canonical" tag. Chance are they outrank you on SEO and makes Google thinks they are the original authors. Worse still, Google penalise you on duplicate content. Good news is Medium do support canonical tags. Thus, you can trust Medium to repost your articles without hurting Google rankings. First thing first, why re-posting WordPress content to Medium at all? The answer is simple: Get more readers that actually read! Medium has an algorithm to predict what type of articles one might want to read. Publishing on Medium almost guarantees your content will get seen by the targeted audience and its network effect is powerful.
No! Copy and paste is not a solution. Medium has already make a plugin for you. Install the official Medium plugin from wordpress.org
Upon activating, you can find Medium settings on WordPress’ user profile.
The integration token can be found on Medium settings page. From now on, your WordPress articles will also be posted to Medium automatically.
Does Medium hurting my SEO?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: The Medium plugin adds a rel="canonical"
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14137/cross-posting-wordpress-to-medium-without-hurting-seo-typist-tech
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/cross-posting-wordpress-to-medium-without-hurting-seo-typist-tech/
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