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Step 1:
Choose a Hive blog post that you want to import to Medium.
For this guide, I’m going to use:
How a Broken Pen Taught Me to Trust Faith and Timing by @dlmmqb.
Step 2:
Review and edit your blog post on Hive if needed.
In this case, How a Broken Pen Taught Me to Trust Faith and Timing required some minor edits before importing.
Step 3:
Copy the Hive.blog link of your post.
(Links from other Hive frontends like PeakD or Ecency are not supported on Medium.com)
Step 4:
Go to Medium.com and click on “Stories” from the menu.
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Step 5:
Click on “Import a story” (you’ll find this option on the Stories page).
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Step 7:
Paste your blog’s Hive.blog link into the field provided.
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Step 8:
Click on “Import” to begin importing your Hive post to Medium.
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Step 9:
Make any necessary edits on Medium. Explore features like subheadings, image captions, and other formatting tools to enhance your post.
>Reminder: Always add a canonical link so search engines and algorithms don’t penalize you for duplicate content.
>When you use the Import feature on Medium, it automatically includes a canonical link to your original Hive post. It will look something like this:
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Step 10:
Click “Publish.”
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>Just like Communities on Hive, there are Publications on Medium.
>However, publications often take a long time to accept submissions and they usually don’t accept posts that are older than 24 hours.
>So, it’s usually better to publish your post without adding it to any publication.
Step 11:
Add appropriate tags (called topics on Medium).
Avoid overly broad or generic topics, as they can negatively affect your post’s reach.
>Tip: For Hive blogs imported to Medium, you don’t need to paywall your story.
>So, it's not necessary to buy a Medium membership just to publish.
>You can always choose to “Paywall your story” later if you want.
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Step 12:
Click “Publish now” to make your blog live on Medium!
Step 13:
Prefer sharing your post using the “Copy Friend Link” so people can access your content, even if there’s a paywall.
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Example:
Friend Link
>This Post is set to 100% power up
@dlmmqb | April 18, 2025, 6:21 a.m. | Votes: 17 | [
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This is my new project to market Hive on Medium.
You don’t need to buy a Medium membership to benefit from what’s coming next in this project.
The idea is simple: import your old Hive blogs to Medium with the proper canonical link and stand a chance to win prizes for high-quality content.
> Note: This post is set to 100% power. I also plan to put this HP to good use for high-quality content creators.
Now, put your old content to work and use it to redirect traffic to Hive.
You can also showcase Medium stats of your blog (if the canonical link is added and it was first published on Hive) to get upvotes from @hive-echo.
> This post was just a placeholder, so I can redirect to it in actual contest posts.
Hi,
Your work in compiling this is commendable, but I would want to highlight certain significant issues about this initiative.
A Web3 decentralised ecosystem, Hive's main philosophy is to empower users by moving away from centralised sites like Medium. This project, which demonstrates how to bring Hive posts to Medium, seems to go against that goal.
Hive here offers no new tool, onboarding process, or genuine value-added service; rather, it's just a guide on how to repost current material. Although you might have permission from the original author, this still seems more like self-promotion than real Hive marketing.
The Hive Marketing community is meant to spread decentralised solutions, onboard new users, and promote Hive's tools. Regrettably, this article contradictes those objectives.
Furthermore, the Medium import procedure is already accessible in their Help area, therefore calling this a "project" on Hive could be deceptive.
I wish you would see this criticism constructively and direct your next efforts towards helping Hive to reflect its genuine values: decentralisation, originality, and community benefit.
Thanks.
Note
And a big problem will arise if such posts start to increase, then those who check for plagiarism or copyright in Hive will have a lot of difficulty checking them and it will take more time.
Don't take any of this to heart. This is what I said based on my research and what I knew. I may be wrong, but I don't think so.
@dlmmqb | April 18, 2025, 12:23 p.m. | Votes: 14 | [
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>rather, it's just a guide on how to repost current material
Read carefully other comment replies of mine.
>Although you might have permission from the original author
Please read carefully, no one is taking permission from other authors.
>Furthermore, the Medium import procedure is already accessible in their Help area, therefore calling this a "project" on Hive could be deceptive.
Please don't use ai for arguments. It's giving you wrong advices. That's not what this is about.
