Are Your Medium Stories Optimized For The Search Engines?

If Not, You Are Leaving Money on the Table

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Do you optimize your Medium stories for search engines like Google and Bing?

If not, you are leaving money on the table.

But how? You may ask.

Well, Medium.com has a super high domain authority of 95.

What this means is, the content you publish stands a good chance of climbing up Google’s search rankings, giving you visibility like never before.

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Writers who enroll in the Partner program earn money from members reading and engaging with their content.

However, it is difficult to earn a liveable income writing on Medium alone(unless you are Tim Denning or Zulie Rane)

But then, as a content creator, you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket.

You can’t depend on making a living from a single platform.

Medium is great for refining your skills as a writer while building an audience.

But a good way to convert your content into cash is to build an email list.

This way you can create digital products such as courses or ebooks and sell them to your audience.

Below are 4 SEO tips to get your Medium stories ranking higher and reaching a broader audience:

Write catchy headlines

Millions of writers publish new stories every day on Medium.

Standing out in that sea of content is no easy feat.

The only thing that will get you clicks is writing a good headline.

A good headline followed by quality content is the recipe for success on Medium.

But that's not all.

Good headlines signal to search engines what your story is about. And this is enough to drive massive traffic to your convert which you can channel to your email list.