: My blog post lost all rankings after posting the same content on Medium and don't have it back after removing the Medium post I copied my article to a medium post, I lost all my ranking.

@Steve110

Google is supposed to identify which articles were published to which websites first in order to prevent plagiarism on the web. Unfortunately, many webmasters have experienced similar situations in which their content was copied and published by a 3rd party, and the 3rd party went on to rank higher than them in the SERPs as a result.

As others have mentioned, you should be using a rel=canonical tag on your Medium posts.

View the post on Medium and right click->view page source. Control+F (search) for canonical. If you cannot find the canonical tag then Medium is not identifying your article as the original source and you need to correct this.

One method to help ensure rankings boost is to link to your own original article in the Medium post as a "source: example.com/article". This should help signal to Google where the article originally came from as well as boost traffic to your blog from Medium.

If rel=canonical has been established in the Medium post, then Google has either deranked your article for other reasons or it's simply bypassing the canonical tag and is still favoring Medium over your own blog.

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@Turnbaugh106

Wait, wait and wait some more

Simple you wait... until Google drops it the page from it's index which can take several days or even weeks.

But...

It's unlikely that medium had any influence on your rankings drop since Medium’s publication and cross-posting pathways automatically add canonical links to protect your original content posted offsite. This means that Medium can only boost — not cannibalize — your SEO.


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Search engines use canonical links to determine and prioritize the
ultimate source of content, removing confusion when there are multiple
copies of the same document in different locations. Sites that publish
an over abundance of duplicate content without indicating a canonical
link may be penalized in search engine rankings.

Medium’s publication and cross-posting pathways automatically add
canonical links to protect your original content posted offsite. This
means that Medium can only boost — not cannibalize — your SEO.


Canonicals work... most likely something else

If your rankings have dropped, I'm willing to bet that it has nothing to do with Medium and your pointing fingers in the wrong direction, but to answer your question, Google does take several weeks for them to full drop articles because unless using error 410 (GONE), they have to ensure that 404 is not temporarily.

Finally, in regards of N/A, just so you know:


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N/A is a common abbreviation in tables and lists for the phrase not applicable, not available, or no answer. It is used to indicate when information in a certain table cell is not provided, either because it does not apply to a particular case in question or because the answer is not available.


My point is... N/A does not mean zero.

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