4 Useful Factors To Decide Whether To Write on Medium or Your Own Blog
Money, patience, and skills are the things that will decide your route
Many writers are curious about whether they should write on Medium or their own Blog. So today I am gonna talk about 4 factors that will help you decide whether you should write on Medium or make your own Blog.
What you love to write about
First of all, consider what you enjoy writing about. Do you love writing in a specific niche or want to share your success, failures, and experience?
Blog
If you want to write in a specific niche to provide news or educate people about something. Then you should make your own blog because if anyone Google anything related to your niche and your article ranks for that keyword they will find it and read it. Which will give traffic to your blog that will help you grow your blog.
Medium
If you want to write about your personal experience or want to share your success and failure stories. Then you should start writing on Medium because if you write about your success or failure stories on a Blog. Your article will never get read and you will never get traffic because no one is searching for your life stories on Google.
Do you have enough money?
The second thing is, Do you have some money to spend on your writing business and grow it.
Blog
If you have enough money to spend on your business and don’t expect any returns for some months or a year. Then you should try making your own Blog because when you create your blog you have to pay for a domain (name of the website), hosting (server for the website), website theme, and some plugins to make your website look and perform better. You have to pay for these things without thinking about any returns in the beginning.
Medium
If you don’t want to spend any money on your writing, then you should try writing on Medium. Because here you don’t need to spend any money to write your articles. The only thing you have to do is to create a profile on Medium, which is free, and then start writing. The only thing you have to do is to express your feelings and share your knowledge while Medium handles all the other things for you.
Do you have the patience?
Another question is, Do you have enough patience to wait for your growth and success.
Blog
If you have the patience to wait for months or years for your success, then making your own blog will be a good decision for you. Because if you want to become a successful blogger. You have to work without stopping and thinking about earning any money for at least 6 months to a year.
Medium
If you don’t have enough patience and want to earn as fast as you can and also want wanna gain some traffic. Then writing on Medium should be your decision because Medium has 161 million pre-built traffic for you who are ready to read your articles. They also pay you after you join the Medium Partner Program, before Medium’s new update everyone was eligible to join the partner program. But after the new update, you should have at least 100 followers and one story published to join the partner program. But it’s also not that hard.
Do you understand all the technicalities?
Another question is, Do you understand all the technicalities which are used to run a successful blog?
Blog
If you already understand all the technicalities or either wants to learn them, then you should start writing on your own blog. Before starting your blog you have to learn different techniques like on-page and off-page SEO (search engine optimization), link building, a little bit of coding, and many more things. If you are ready to learn and apply them to every article then you should choose a blog rather than Medium. Because implementing these things gives you a better ranking on Google, which is good for achieving long-term success.
Medium
On the other side if you don’t understand all the technicalities and also don’t want to learn them, then you should write on Medium. Because on platforms like Medium, all you have to do is, write and express your feelings. And you will get free traffic from their pre-built audience without applying any SEO tactics or other things.
Final Thoughts
Every platform has its own pros and cons, which makes it different from each other. But I will suggest you write on both Medium and your own blog. If you want to share your success or failure story, then write it on Medium. And if you want to write about anything that people are searching on Google, then you should write on your own blog and then re-upload it to your Medium account. Don’t worry about duplicate content because Medium has an option for duplicate content, which will not let Google consider it as duplicate content.