Medium: how to get more visibility for your stories!
Hello, beautiful WA Family!
Yesterday, we talked about the big crisis Medium is facing right now, which has lowered the income for all the writers, banned many scammers and unckly left many innocent victims behind (you can read my post here)
Mike asked me some tips to improve the stories' visibility on Medium.
I will tell you what I did to improve my visibility gaining 7.50 dollars in my first 21 days on the platform.
- MEDIUM IS A SOCIAL NETWORK (AND WRITING PLATFORM)
I want to underline this crucial aspect of the platform: it is a social network. This means:
- start following and interacting with people of your same niche
- this will lead to a more engaging exchange of comments
- use wisely the claps and the comments (don't over-interact to avoid the suspension)
- try to write about common problems of your niche that will lead to more natural interactions.
- MEDIUM IS GIVING A GREAT POWER TO PUBBLICATIONS (AND EDITORS)
- To ensure more quality content on the platform, Medium is recognizing more and more power to Editors who manage pubblications
- If you don't know what is a pubblication, imagine something like a magazine where the editor (another writer who opened the publication) select the writers who can add their stories and select the stories
- Some of these editors have another special power: they can boost very selected stories. These boosted stories are then analyzed by the Medium internal team and once accepted, they are distributed in Medium Mailing List and their other channels!
- My tip is to be strategic while choosing a pubblication or more pubblications.
- The biggest ones - which accept everyone - are a waste of time, because your story will be visible in the pubblication's feed for just few minutes and forgotten soon.
- On the contrary, select a small pubblication, very well curated, interact with the editor in a genuine way and you will receive more exposure for sure.
- Once that you will become more experienced, try to enter in a bigger pubblication (always selected ones where the editor can boost the stories!)
- SHARE ON PINTEREST (OR YOUR FAVORITE SOCIAL PLATFORM)
- I always pair Medium & Pinterest
- I search the top keyword on Pinterest and THEN I write an article about that keyword on Medium
- Written the article, I prepare a pin including the Medium article's url
Hope these tips can give you more insights about how Medium works! If you have any question, just ask (it is free to ask! Lol!!!)
Kisses
Suomii
P.s. Always 100% Human Content! Miss u Frank!
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I cancelled my FOM membership which takes affect on the 29th. I'll still post there once in awhile, but will earn thru what I promote.
Mel
Ciao Mel, I made up my mind to keep my Partner Program (5 dollars a month) because I have already repaid the first month, and almost re-paying the second with the Medium income.
I am even considerring NOT to paywall all the stories since my goal is brand awareness for now! Let's see how the things are evolving in the platform in the next days!
Best wishes Suomii. If Medium improves, I can always get back on the membership. I was making money there from the start, but just didn't like January's development.
Mel
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Very interesting stuff Romy... I intend to try out Medium at some point this year (time permitting of course)!!!
Have a fantastic start to the weekend my friend! :-)
Jessie, if you like writing, you could give it a try! :)
Will do my friend! :-)