Medium SEO is building their brand, not yours
Every ranking Medium article strengthens medium.com's domain authority. You do the work, they keep the SEO value. Own your content, own your rankings, own your growth.
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The Medium SEO paradox
When your Medium article ranks #1 for a high-value keyword, who benefits? Medium does. The domain authority, the backlinks, the search equity, all of it accrues to medium.com, not your brand. You're essentially working as an unpaid content creator for Medium's SEO strategy.
Even worse: you're building on rented land. If Medium changes their algorithm, adjusts their paywall rules, or modifies their curation policies, your traffic can disappear overnight. You don't own the platform, you don't control the distribution, and you don't capture the SEO value.
Medium has value for distribution, it has a built-in audience and can help you reach readers quickly. But for long-term organic growth and brand building, you need to own your platform.
The smart strategy:
Publish on your own blog first (building your domain authority), then cross-post to Medium with a canonical URL pointing back to your site. You get Medium's distribution while keeping the SEO value on your domain.
The Medium SEO problem
Why serious publishers are leaving Medium for platforms they own
Medium is great for reaching readers fast. But for long-term organic growth and brand building, you need a platform that hands the SEO value back to you.
You're building Medium's domain authority, not yours
Every ranking Medium article strengthens medium.com, not your brand. When your post hits #1, the domain authority and search equity belong to Medium.
Zero control over SEO infrastructure
No JSON-LD schemas, no sitemap submission, no IndexNow, no canonical control. Medium's algorithm decides distribution, not Google's.
Building on rented land is a risk
If Medium changes its algorithm, paywall rules, or curation policy, your traffic can disappear overnight. You don't own the platform or the audience.
Feature Comparison
Quilzy vs Medium
Side-by-side SEO feature comparison
| Feature | Quilzy | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Custom domain SEO | yoursite.com/blog (subdirectory) | Subdomain only (medium.com/@you) |
| JSON-LD schemas | ||
| XML sitemap control | ||
| IndexNow instant indexing | ||
| LLMs.txt for AI search | ||
| URL structure control | ||
| Own your domain authority | ||
| Page speed control | 90+ Lighthouse | Platform controlled |
| Content monetization | Your choice | Partner Program only |
| Analytics | Full (Pirsch, GA) | Limited Medium stats |
| Quilzy wins on 10 key features | ||
You can focus on writing
instead of fixing
Quilzy provides optimized UI, CMS, hosting, SEO, security, marketing tools, and performance out of the box.
What You Get with Quilzy
Built for rankings, not distribution algorithms
Everything you need to rank in Google, ChatGPT, and beyond
Auto JSON-LD schemas
Article, FAQ, Organization, and Breadcrumb schemas added automatically to every post. Google understands your content structure.
XML sitemaps & IndexNow
Auto-generated sitemaps submitted to search engines. IndexNow notifies Google of updates within seconds, not days.
90+ Lighthouse performance
JAMStack architecture with a global CDN. Auto image optimization, lazy loading, and WebP conversion. Fast pages rank higher.
Subdirectory hosting
Your blog lives at yoursite.com/blog, not a third-party domain. All SEO authority flows to your brand, not Medium's.
LLMs.txt for AI search
Your content appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI search results. Medium doesn't support this standard.
Full analytics control
Privacy-friendly analytics (Pirsch) built-in. Integrate Google Analytics, Search Console, or any tool. Own your data.
Loved by growth teams
200+ companies use Quilzy to publish content that ranks. Teams choose us for speed, SEO, and zero maintenance.
“I wanted a tool that just handled the writing so we could focus on our business. Quilzy's AI writes our blog for us, and it's been perfect for that.”
Renee Kessler
“Really impressed with how fast I had a blog up and running on my own site. Now I spend my time writing instead of fiddling with settings.”
Diego Marsh
“We've used Quilzy about 6 months now. Our news page updates itself every day and the writing sounds like us. Keeping it fresh has never been easier.”
Amara Okafor
“Just found Quilzy. It shares every post across all my social accounts on its own, so I barely lift a finger. Super awesome!”
Theo Vance
“Got Quilzy running in no time. Simple, but so fast. Love that it writes our blogs and news for us, ready to go.”
Nadia Fenn
“If you want one easy place to handle your blog, news, and social, I'd genuinely suggest Quilzy. It's top of class.”
Jonas Reeve
Own your content, own your rankings
Migrate from Medium in minutes. Keep the distribution benefits, capture the SEO value. From $29/month.
Medium SEO questions answered
Medium has strong domain authority, so articles can rank quickly. The catch is that the authority belongs to medium.com, not your brand. You rent reach instead of building your own SEO equity, and you get no control over schemas, sitemaps, canonicals, or indexing.
They can, especially in the short term, because medium.com is a high-authority domain. But you compete with every other Medium writer for the same domain signals, and any ranking value strengthens Medium. On your own Quilzy domain, those rankings build your authority instead.
Medium retired custom domain mapping for new publications, so your content lives on medium.com or a medium.com subdomain. With Quilzy you publish at yoursite.com/blog (a subdirectory), which is what SEO experts recommend for building domain authority.
On Medium your levers are limited to titles, subtitles, tags, and the text itself. You can't add JSON-LD, control canonical tags, submit sitemaps, or use IndexNow. Quilzy handles all of that automatically on every post.
The smart strategy is both: publish on your own blog first to build your domain authority, then cross-post to Medium with a canonical URL pointing back to your site. You get Medium's distribution while keeping the SEO value on your domain. Quilzy sets the canonical correctly out of the box.
Medium doesn't publish an LLMs.txt file, so your content is harder for AI search engines to discover and cite cleanly. Quilzy generates LLMs.txt automatically, so your posts can surface in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI search tools.
Yes. Export your Medium content and Quilzy imports your posts and images. We help you set up redirects and canonical tags so you keep the SEO value you've already earned while moving authority onto your own domain.
Quilzy gives you subdirectory hosting, automatic JSON-LD schemas, XML sitemaps, IndexNow, LLMs.txt, full canonical and URL control, and 90+ Lighthouse scores. Medium offers none of these. You keep the distribution upside of Medium by cross-posting, but own the rankings.
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