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Tell HN: HackerNoon removes canonical URLs before publishing

3 points by pul ↗ HN
HackerNoon has the option to add a canonical URL to encourage people to cross-post their article on HackerNoon. An editor manually removed the canonical URL from an article I cross-posted to their site today. I checked my older articles just now, and they also don't have canonicals anymore. Does anyone else also had this happen to them?

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Liriel
Omg, you're right, they did it to me as well.

I had this issue years ago, and even got into a Twitter argument with their founder. It was a bug. Not sure what is the cause now.

pul
In my case, it must have been intentional. The editor added a line 'Also published here' with the canonical at the bottom of the article.
smooke
HackerNoon only supports canonical links to personal sites with SSL certificates and for companies in our brand as author program. This is nothing new. The poster here wants canonical links to their startup's blog without being a part of our brand program. He can do so by claiming his free credit/s, and just making the bio the owner of the content (his startup company and not him). https://sponsor.hackernoon.com/brand-as-author Publishing posts owned by technology companies (and not individuals) is a freemium publishing program on HackerNoon.

Here's more about how publishing and republishing on HackerNoon work:

https://help.hackernoon.com/republishing-guide

https://help.hackernoon.com/backlinks-guideline

https://help.hackernoon.com/editorial-guideline

https://help.hackernoon.com/for-writers

https://help.hackernoon.com/distribution

https://help.hackernoon.com/writer-account--perks

https://hackernoon.com/the-second-human-rule-9a1a3yhl

https://hackernoon.com/4-facts-you-should-know-about-republi...

https://www.publish.hackernoon.com/

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-retitle-republished-posts-gbn3...

https://hackernoon.com/hacking-hacker-noon-best-republishing...

Honestly, if you're using HackerNoon just to get canonical links, you don't understand the value of publishing on HackerNoon or other technology publication for that matter. It's about getting a free human editor and reaching people where they are.