Connect Dev.to
Cross-publish EarlyForge articles to the DEV community with an API key — canonical URL included, no SEO penalty.
Connect Dev.to
DEV is one of the largest developer communities. If your articles cover tech, AI or engineering topics, cross-posting there puts them in front of millions of developers — and the built-in canonical URL keeps your own blog as the SEO original.
Connect your account
Generate an API key
Head over to your DEV Community extensions settings, scroll to DEV Community API Keys, enter a name like EarlyForge and click Generate API Key. Copy it.
Add the connection in EarlyForge
Go to Connectors → Dev.to → Add a site, paste the key into API Key, and click Connect site.
Choose draft or immediate publish
Leave Publish Immediately off to receive articles as drafts in your DEV dashboard (review, then publish there), or turn it on to go live directly.
Point SEO back home (recommended)
In Advanced options, set Canonical URL to your blog's pattern, e.g. https://blog.example.com/{slug}. DEV will tell search engines your site hosts the original.
DEV allows at most 4 tags, lowercase letters and numbers only. EarlyForge normalizes your article tags automatically, so a tag like Machine-Learning becomes machinelearning instead of failing the publish.
Next steps
- Connectors overview — auto-publish vs manual, Activity log, retries
- Connect Hashnode — the other developer blogging platform