Medium earnings is based on read-time. — Since the payment system on Medium is based on reading time, it’s crucial to keep readers focused on your content so they read through your entire article. Learn how I do it. I began doing some research on the stats of my old posts. …

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…

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:

Some do and some don’t, but this story reveals probably why. — When importing articles from another website to Medium, the last revision date of the original becomes the publish date. That’s not good for distribution. I recently used the import tool for an article that I had updated several months ago on HubPages. Unfortunately, after publishing on Medium, I couldn’t find…

Moving Content Around — As many of you know, I’ve been publishing educational articles on the niche sites of the Arena Group for over a decade. It is the HubPages platform where we get paid for external traffic. Most readers come from Google search, which is a larger audience than the finite subscribers on…

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.

Make your Medium Profile Interactive — 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…

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…

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…

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…

Is It Worth It? — 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…

Learn where to put your writing efforts — You can get some useful information from your stats report that will help you decide where to put your writing efforts. I’ll show you how. Look at the Read Ratio Examine your stats and look for posts that have well over 50% read ratio. Those are articles that had kept your readers more engaged than…

An analyst’s view of how the algorithm works to pay authors. — I’m going to give you an explanation of how I think the algorithm works to pay authors on Medium. As of November 2019, the new payment method is based on reading time and no longer on claps, so I updated this article accordingly. I have a programming background as a…

Q&A Session With a Curious Author — An enthusiastic author asked thoughtful questions about publishing on Medium that many writers want to know. Here are my answers. 1. Do you find writing for Medium worthwhile? While it is true that you need a following on Medium to earn well, those people need to be legitimate readers interested in your continuous work. I discovered I get…

Useful lessons for you to know if planning a publication — When it came to creating a publication to keep all my personal essays in one place, I didn’t plan things well. This review of my experience should be helpful for you if you decide to have your own publication on Medium. Anyone can create a publication on Medium and be…

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. …

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…