Make your Medium Profile Functional — I’ll show you how to make a highly-converting menu structure for your Medium profile. It’s advantageous if you write articles in more than one niche. The list feature on Medium is excellent for guiding people to your individual stories, but you might need more to help your readers find specific…

Gaining respect is the best way to keep readers engaged. — How to Keep Your Visitors Reading Deliver on what your title promises. Do that immediately at the beginning. Finally, elaborate further on the subject. Why This Is Crucial You need to deliver on the promise of the title to give the reader what they expect. So focus on that and nothing else. It’s essential to begin with that focus right…

So your Medium followers can find your new stuff. — You may already be familiar with the list of author icons on Medium’s home feed page. They represent the people you follow, and it displays the number of new stories they posted since you last looked. Here’s an example:

Includes latest Medium changes — I’m a systems analyst with a Master’s Degree, which is why I tend to discover details of useful features that others might miss. I’ll discuss these essential details that you can take advantage of to improve readership and earnings with your articles on the Medium platform. You Can Change the Default Subtitle and Description Many writers on Medium…

Copying old content has its problems — If you ever imported you content from another site to Medium or are planning to do so, you need to understand the consequences of the automated process.

I’ll tell you why. — I recently deleted my accounts with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And LinkedIn might be next. I realized I could better spend my time on creative endeavors writing additional articles. The reason I came to that decision is that I learned few people on social media have an interest in reading…

You need to update it in three places — When you change your title or subtitle on a story published on Medium, you need to update it in three places. Otherwise, it does not propagate to listings of your content elsewhere. Additionally, I noticed that the description of your articles that search engines see is not automatically filled in…

Publications, Lists, Notifications, the Mobile App and Google — Here’s a discussion of what I noticed recently with Medium Publications, the new List Feature, Notifications, the Mobile App and how Google views Medium. Ever since Medium decided not to give much attention to publications anymore, it might be better to publish independently on Medium. …

And how to do it the right way. — Some publications accept stories that are already published. However, the advantage of submitting a new draft is that it appears at the top of listings. Previously published stories will be listed in the order of the original publication date. That’s why most editors will only accept drafts. So how do…

My reply to a reader’s questions. — One of my loyal followers, Brian Leekley, asked some significant questions that concern many authors who write on the Medium platform. So I wrote my reply in this article to share with everyone. Thank you, Brian, for your thoughtful inquiries. Q: Is it correct that Medium and its publications are for…

So you can learn how they are distributed. — The purpose of this article is to analyze how several of my articles where successfully curated so you can learn how your stories are distributed. First of all, lets discuss recent changes to the distribution method Medium made in late 2020. We no longer see where curated stories are distributed…

Future revenue is possible with external traffic. — We only get paid in the Medium Partner Program when members who pay for a Medium Membership subscription read our content. But there is another option — retroactive payments when external readers sign up later. I’ll explain with this example: One of my stories on Medium is indexed high in…

My response to questions on Quora — Is It Worth Joining the Medium Partner Program? That all depends on what kind of a writer you are, and how you handle your writing business. To determine if it’s worth joining the Medium Partner Program (MPP) for yourself, you need to understand what it means to YOU. There is no cost involved. Some people get this confused…

Here’s a look at what I learned from my mistakes. — I began writing on Medium in August 2018. I wrote all my prior content on the HubPages network, where it’s monetized with paid advertising by AdSense and other ad agencies. I continue to receive monthly revenue for those articles, so Medium was an experiment for me to see how well…

You can do a writing challenge too. — I learned many crucial lessons when I challenged myself to complete one article every day for 30 days in Medium. Here’s my story. I completed the 30-day writing challenge in January 2019. I’m glad I did it. …