How to Increase Engagement and Readership on Your Medium Stories

If you are a part of medium partner program, You should know what is curated meaning! 

Let me explain more about it, Curated means Medium will show your post/story/article in the medium digest or in medium feeds or more from section, so tonnes of people can see your stories in their bucket list and so your views and readership can be increased if your article is interesting for the readers. Allow your distribution setting on if your posts are public and shared with many readers.

This way you can drive much traffic to your article. Keep one thing in your mind, if your story is curated, it means you will get much benefits if you are already enrolled with Medium Partner Program. For longer period (Can be 2+ years) you can generate your passive income. You need to regularaly update the articles as well, if you don't do that, your curation might be finished and so you can't earn money for longer time.

If you have good knowledge about blogging platforms like wordpress, blogger etc, they you can also drive traffic from there to your medium article too.

Quora is also such a good platform where people are curious to write / give the answers of your questions as Quora have tonnes of active users. If you write related articles to medium then monthly you can get around 100K views monthly. Even there are lots of spaces (Generally similar to facebook groups) with active users are available where you can directly share your medium story link to drive traffic from Quora to your medium articles. Most of the Quorans are on medium too, so they will definitely check each and every blog posts too.

Generally people are reaching to the medium post by searching on the search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu etc... So if your title or content match with entered keywords by users, then you will get your article indexed on the first page and you will get much traffic from there.

If you are writing a story and if you already have some common things which you published previously, so you can add that stories in to your new articles, and if user finds it related to what they are looking for and when they click on it, Medium counts it as internal traffic and you will get paid much for the internal traffic.

In these ways, you will get much traffic to your stories and you can find the reflection in the medium partner program dashboard too.

When you paste your article link, it will fetch the link preview by itself, which works as a clickbaits and attract more visitors.

Another way, You can follow many medium writers who are really doing hard work, they will follow back you if you follow them, if they finds your story interesting then their network can also see that, they gave claps on your article or highlighted text from your story. So make them friend, treat them like how do you want to be treated. If you gave claps for their articles they will also do the same.

If you are thinking that, I can earn money without investment - definitely  it works in some of the cases, but you need to do much labour work and spend your time to get success from it, most of the users get failure due to such time consuming situations and give up with the things.

Anyway, Let's come to the main point - You can create Ad campaign about your medium article, it will be shown to the audience which you targetted while creating the ad. So Interested people can reach to your article from the ads shown on the Quora platform. As compare to Quora and Facebook, Quora ad coampaigns are more flexible and cheap as compare to facebook, but you will get genuine traffic from Quora - that's for sure.

Email marketing is famous since couple of decades. You can create a list of amazing stories and share it to the people who subscribed your newsletter and willing to see more article from you.

There are many bulk email tools are available for free, you can just give them a try! It will work, and if needed you can buy it too.

You can comment below in order to get a bulk email list of genuine users in order to send your articles through mail. (It may cost you some amount)

There are no limits to publish your story with medium, but you can try to post a 1 story per day or 5 stories per week, In this way, if your story gets curated or people are searching on the search engine and find your article useful - that thing will be helpful to you, so you can earn more money in such a way, and your income will be for long time.

What you need to do?

Write more stories, Helpful stories, Trending facts anything you want

Then

Sit back and relax - When your stories are reaching to good potential and making more money.

You can also do a world tour, you can enjoy about how do you want! - I can show you a dream only, Achieving it with some name and fame - all depends on you.

Medium is showing "More from Medium" section based on the publications where users created a story and added it to their publications. Publication is like your personal website, where you are contributing your article with the publication, if your publication followers increase, your stories will be recommended to others and so you can earn more money.

If your story have text but no image then you are in a loss!

Attractive images are working as a clickbait to get more views, if you check the articles which have nothing interesting things but still gets more claps and views because they put some interesting featured image and because of they came to see the full image / other images inside the same article, so it might be helpful.

If your title is much attractive then you can force user to make them click on the article, even they can't ignore it, you know!

Note: please don't put anything dirty which violates the medium policy and banned you forever.

Make sure that, your tags are related to your story and when user search it over medium or any search engines, it should fetch and index your article first, in this way your article can be popped out first to the visitors. Keep some long tail keywords so it can complied with search engine algorithms and search spiders should find it easily.

Also note one more thing, when you are reading about some articles on medium it will show you under "Based on your reading history" - This section also checks your interest and based on the tags they are fetching up stories for you.

So let's say if you are writing about how to earn money online - so it will fetch stories where they find tags something like below,

• Make money online
• Earn money online free
• Earn money without investment
• Make money by writing articles

For your hint, You can use below articles in order to get more public views

• Make money online
• creativity
• DIY / Do It Yourself
• life lessons
• self development
• marketing
• earn money ideas
• writing tips
• beauty tips
• interesting story
• startup
• Technology

Follow each and every people who appreciate your story with comments or claps, if you follow back them then it will create a good impression on them. When you publish the next article they will appreciate it too in the future...

In this case, ego is not important one, "why I should follow them?" - will not make any sense, here you are writing to get some name and fame for yourself, but if you are getting money for it then you should put your ego to your bathroom only! Be frank with them and try to get more views by helping others.

If your story is short one, then it might be not visible on search engines, nobody can search it easily and so you will not get much views as expected. Shorter stories will hardly comply with one or two keyword which people are searching rarely on the search engines like google, bing, yandex, yahoo etc...

Longer stories will take a good indexing number on the search engines and chances of the visitors to find it first. Longer stories will make much money if readers are spending their time with engagement with your writings!

Medium have publications and that is the vital part of the medium.

There are number of publications available in the Medium. You can also share your post if it is related with the publication.

• Publishous - Better living, Writing, Christianity
• The Forge - Career, Relationship Advice, Articles on Mental Health and Productivity
• P.S. I Love You - Relationship, real advice, love
• The Mission - Human behaviour, Innovation, Psycology, Inventions, fictional story
• Better Human - Humanity, self improvement, Human skeleton and parts

You can submit other famous publication, so I can update them here. Hope that will be useful to others.

There are lots of social media apps are available as of now like facebook, twitter, Minds, Quora, Instagram, Whatsapp and many more... You can also share your article on these many platform to get more views. Once you publish your story you can directly share it with Facebook or Twitter directly, if you build a good audience on these platform - you will continuously get the traffic from those referrals.

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