I studied these stories in depth and there was definitely something different about the stories that were being published and shared on Medium vs. How could I not want to read more stories like his?Īfter that, I was hooked. I had just started my first business and his story was relatable on so many levels. It was in 2013, Andy Dunn the CEO of Bonobos wrote about “ The Risk Not Taken.” It was his story of the founding of Bonobos and how he almost went broke in the process. I still remember the first post I ever read on Medium. What Kind of Content Does Well on Medium?
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Click here to get the free spreadsheet and increase your chances of going viral. I’ve compiled a list of all publications into a spreadsheet with follower counts and descriptions so you can find the right publication to submit your article to quickly and easily. Note: A key part of going viral on Medium was submitting my article to the right Medium publication. I’m going to share that process in this post, along with what I’ve learned about the platform so that you can replicate this kind of success for yourself.įinally, I’ll discuss what I’ve learned since then about building a long term audience and getting steady traffic for years by writing on and building your own blog and ranking for the right keywords with SEO (skip to here). Then I compiled all of the advice I got and executed on it. There is a process you can follow that will help you get seen by thousands of people.īefore publishing on Medium, I talked to successful Medium writers and found out how they got so much traction. My first post going viral wasn’t just by luck though.
Imagine if you were starting a new blog… getting those kinds of stats is CRAZY for the first post! I still think building your own blog, on your own site is the best long term solution (more on why below) but Medium can definitely give you a massive initial pageview boost. Now I’m sold on Medium as channel for syndicating content to help drive traffic AND build my brand. It got over 10k views in 4 days, 12k views over the past 3 weeks, and it helped me get picked up by the Huffington Post. “If I republish content on there, what happens if it outranks my site or even worse hurts my SEO?”īut last month I published my first article on Medium. What if I waste a post on Medium and it doesn’t get any traction?” “I don’t want to start blogging on a new platform when I already have a blog and a following. I kept hearing about a ton of people having success on Medium but I was always scared to publish on there.
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