Welcome to the Weekly Indie Log #18! This is an exciting one as this is my first Weekly Indie Log which will get cross-published to Medium , Hashnode and dev.to due to the new Cross Publish functionality built into Stomod . This follows up on #17 being the first edition to go out as a newsletter as well - many firsts these days 😅.
Cross Publishing
One of the things I used to do previously with my blog posts here was to publish them on Medium. This was a time consuming process and I forgot the amount of times I forgot to cross-post after publishing my post here.
Cross publishing to Medium involved several steps:
Copy and pasting the content to Medium
Adjust the formatting to look right on Medium
Set up the canonical URL of the Medium post to the blog post URL here
Setup the tags on Medium
Publish the post on Medium
With Stomod Cross Publish, this is all done in the background once you’ve setup your Medium/Hashnode/dev.to integration by providing your integration token obtained from the respective platforms.
Configuring cross posting for Medium
Cross Posting Options
Once you provide your integration token, you have the option to configure the following posting behaviour:
All posts published on this blog : All blog posts you publish on your Stomod blog get published on the platforms you configured.
Only posts published with the following tags : You configure one of more tags on Stomod to use for cross publishing and all posts tagged with that tag gets cross published to the platforms you configured.
Only posts published with the following post property checked : You configure a specific Notion posts database property which when checked will cross publish the post to the platforms you configured.
Configure a property to work with cross publishing
Manually publish from post listing : This option allows you to go to your post listing page and manually cross publish to the platforms you choose.
Cross publish manually from the posts listing on Stomod
Moar Value
When cross publishing posts to the other platforms, Stomod will also setup the canonical URL to link back to the original blog post on Stomod but with a twist.
It will also set UTM tags in the URL which will have the following parameters:
Campaign : Stomod
Source : Medium/Hashnode/dev.to
Medium : Cross Posting
This sets up the post to be tracked nicely by Stomod Analytics under the campaigns section.
Beta Features & GA Features
I will be soon moving the analytics feature out of beta and into GA, which mean that full-analytics will only be available to Pro Plus users.
The newsletter feature and the cross publish feature will be in beta until I iron out the kinks and will be freely available for use right now.
Other initiatives I still will be maintaining is SEO which I will be actively focusing on with the new cross publish functionality at the heart of it.
I also have a big bunch of items on my todo which I will continue to push and I will also be prepping for the Product Hunt launch I mentioned in #17.
Let’s see how productive I can be 😎