How do I get my Medium articles on Google?

Where the Medium sitemap lives

You have no control over it. Your stories are URLs on Medium's domain.

Why Medium storys don't get indexed

• You cannot verify medium.com in Search Console, so no sitemap submission, no Indexing API, no URL inspection.
• Paywalled stories are partially hidden from unauthenticated crawlers, which limits what Google can rank them for.
• Every story competes with the rest of Medium for the same domain's crawl attention.
• Publication URLs and personal-profile URLs behave differently; a story moved between them changes URL.
• If you publish natively on Medium and later want the traffic on your own site, there's no redirect you can set.

Step by step: getting your Medium profile into Google

1. Write and publish the piece on your own domain first.
2. Use Medium's import tool so the canonical points back to your version.
3. Give the story a title that matches a real search query, not a clever hook.
4. Put the answer in the first two paragraphs — that's what Google shows and what readers bounce on.
5. Submit your own domain's URL through the Indexing API; Medium's copy will follow on its own.
6. Link from the Medium story back to related pages on your site.

Medium indexing controls at a glance

• Sitemap — Medium's own, at medium.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml — You have no control over it. Your stories are URLs on Medium's domain.
• robots.txt — Managed by the platform. Medium controls robots.txt platform-wide. Nothing about crawler access is yours to change.
• Rendering — Medium serves rendered HTML for public stories.
• Hiding a page — No per-story control. Stories behind the metered paywall are partially restricted to unauthenticated readers.
• Custom head code — Not available — no head or template access on this platform.
• llms.txt — Not possible — you don't control the domain.