Boost Your Medium + Vocal Stories Performance

This guide about Medium and Vocal communities, that will help you to get much traffic and increase your readership and engagement of readers with your stories in short term.

As we know, Medium and Vocal are much better blogging platforms, where users can publish anything whatever they want and which complies with the medium policy or Vocal policy, writers can write poems, haikus, stories, sharing the experience about life, A-Z Anything.

You will learn in this post, about how you can make a good potential to reach your posts up to thousands of readers in a short time/week. Hope that will be helpful to you.

Keep the below points in your mind, and your content is the king.

Get your stories curated on Medium

If you are a part of the 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 medium feeds or more from a 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 if your posts are public and shared with many readers.

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

Spend some money to grab more money — Make it as your Life Time Rule

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 labor 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 your article from the ads shown on the Quora platform. As compare to Quora and Facebook, Quora ad campaigns are more flexible and cheap compare to Facebook, but you will get genuine traffic from Quora — that’s for sure.

Writing articles on your niche

If you have good knowledge about blogging platforms like WordPress, blogger, etc, then 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 to your questions as Quora has 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 blog post too.

Generally, people are reaching 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.

Clickbait with Title & Feature Image -These both are important to attract visitors

If your story has text but no image then you are at 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 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 users 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.

Internal Traffic matter much for Medium

If you are writing a story and if you already have some common things which you published previously, so you can add that stories into your new articles, and if the user finds is 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 clickbait 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 find 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 friends, treat them like how do you want to be treated. If you gave claps for their articles they will also do the same.

A newsletter is a good option until you spam

Email marketing is famous for a couple of decades. You can create a list of amazing stories and share them with the people who subscribed to your newsletter and willing to see more articles 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 to get a bulk email list of genuine users to send your articles through the mail. (It may cost you some amount)

Write helpful stories — 1 story per day

There are no limits to publish your story with medium, but you can try to post 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 a long time.

What do you need to do?

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

Then

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

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

Medium Publication

Medium is showing the “More from Medium” section based on the publications where users created a story and added it to their publications. The 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.

Same things you can apply for vocal.media too!

Should I publish lengthy stories to earn more?

If your story is a short one, then it might be not visible on search engines, nobody can search it easily and so you will not get many views as expected. Shorter stories will hardly comply with one or two keywords 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!

The Tag should be your keywords for search engine

Make sure that, your tags are related to your story and when users 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 comply with search engine algorithms and search spiders should find it easily.

Also, note one more thing, when you are reading about some articles on the 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 the below articles to get more public views

Heart for Heart, Clap for the clap, Comment for comment

Follow 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, the ego is not an 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.

Socialize your article with Social media (Common way — You already know about it)

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 platforms to get more views. Once you publish your story you can directly share it with Facebook or Twitter, if you build a good audience on these platforms — you will continuously get traffic from those referrals.

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Originally Published at 9Mood, Also published on Medium.