3 SEO Tips For Medium Writers Who Want To Get Evergreen Traffic
Optimize your medium articles to get long-lasting traffic from search engines.
Search engine optimization is easy. If I can do that then you can definitely rock it. We spend a lot of time writing, crafting, editing and promoting our medium stories but often overlook the fact that we are missing the most important thing on the Internet — The Google search engine.
I have published 2.5K words blog posts on my blog and it ranks lower than the medium story of just 600 words. Do you know, why? Because of the medium.com domain authority.
One of the main reason for getting good domain authority is to get backlinks from other authority sites.
There are two types of stories published on medium. The first one is based on “events” like “The downfall of WeWork” while others are based and designed for ever-green traffic. Mostly, stories of these types are solving problems.
SEO is to optimize your medium story for the search engine. Writing a great story doesn’t mean your post is optimized for the search engine. The search engine works on the bases of the algorithm and these algorithms favor those blog posts that are following its indexing rules.
Here are 3 tips to get more traffic from Search engines.
All these tips are for on-page optimization, I am only mentioning on-page optimization because sites with high domain authority rank better with zero Off-page optimization.
Tip#1: Optimize Title for Search
The title is the most important part of the search engine optimization technique. If you want to get ranked then you should focus on the title of your medium story.
The best practice for writing an SEO Optimized title is to include your keyword in your title.
Let me share two types of Medium stories titles with you.
Example#1
Example#2
You can read this search optimized story here:
You can experience the difference very clearly.
I have written a Medium story about “How to rank your Medium story in Google search”
Tip#2: Write Long-form Medium Stories
EV William is the founder of Medium and the co-founder of Twitter. Twitter is for short-term posts while Medium core mission is to give writers the opportunity to write long-form answers.
If you are bringing traffic from a search engine, that’s valuable for Medium too because of their Medium Membership and good for their branding.
According to an Ahref report;
A 4,000 words article gets 4x traffic and shares than an article with 1,000 to 1,200 words.
Long-Form content is defined as an article with more than 2,000 words.
Tips#3: Interlinking
Add links to your previous stories you have published on Medium. This will helps you to convert a single user to multiple views. Writers, who write about a single niche, have high chances that they will get more traffic and more loyal followers than a writer who is the master of all.
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I hope this will helps you.
