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Hey, what's up, everyone?

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 764 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.

And now here's today's question from John.

Hi, Pat. This is John from MoneySmartguides.com.

And in a recent SPI podcast, you were talking about using Medium for guest posting.

And my question is, in terms of guest posting, would you treat medium sort of like

a Web 2.0 property where you would place links back to your main blog within the content,

or is there another way that you would really be using Medium for your guest posting services?

Thanks a lot.

Hey John, thank you so much for the question. For those of you who don't know what Medium is, it's an amazing website that a lot of people use to start writing. And whether they have a

website or not, they treat it like it's almost their own property. So I actually wouldn't,

John, treat it like a, quote, web 2.0 property.

And where John is coming from is there was a strategy that I had used and had talked about

that I had developed from somebody else back in the day when I was creating niche sites back in 2010,

where you could actually game Google by building new websites and linking to your own website

to increase the authority level you have your own website.

I wouldn't even worry about doing that kind of stuff anymore, John and everybody else.

What you want to do now is naturally post things to help people, provide value,

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