All My Stats Are Down Expect One
Despite that things are as bad as it looks
We still have to finish the race, 10 more Laps.
For a week or two, I felt like walking underwater
Where nothing works
Where readers were shatter
Where there’s no sun but moon till midnight
Yet, what is it that I manage to keep up on?
3.5K/5.5K = 0.6363636363636364 or 63.6% Read Ratio
I do realize the more I post every day the less effective each of them gets.
Stats, I write a lot but the message within each post is what I meant to share.
March
This one is about the Quality of your work and how to improve it.
Which to many sounds vague and hard to see what or where can be improved.
That is where the stats come in and clear the fog of your medium performance.
The Read Ratio is your first line of defense of whether you need to improve the headlines or the content itself.
Notice that when you put the things in percentage terms, you remove the status of how big or small an account is.
This is a pure performance-based assessment of each of your posts.
One way you can know what to work on first is to combine the read ratio with the earnings per read of each post.
It works best for posts with 0–5K in claps.
My benchmark is a 65% read ratio per post and $0.15 earnings per read by post. (this may not apply to viral posts) For anything below that I need to re-look at two areas.
A. Read ratio = headlines, image, and the first part of the body. (first 150 words or so)
B. Earning per read = the entire content quality and flow. (measures the read time indirectly)
If you measure it this way, you find that area you need to improve on instead of guessing it. (yes, engagement matters but without A & B it does not count)
Let me give an example.
A 66% Read Ratio, looks just fine.
$8.65/30 = $0.288, didn’t realize it was that high.
Now let’s look at one that really lacks in certain areas.
A 74% Read ratio, means part A is fine
$2.90/25 = $0.116, which means part B needs re-look for improvements
Now my overall performance for February measure in this way.
6.6K/10.6K = 62.3% Read Ratio
$1060.83/6.6K = $0.161 Earnings per read
Put A & B in the picture and you’ll see why I was made $1K per month.
As Medium can not release the read time, it is certainly a lot of data that is interlinked, maybe that is why. But we’ll figure it out together as much as we can.
February
For March the over all reading per read is very close to Feb.
Which mean I can cut back on the no so good performing post and put more time into the better ideas and working from there.
Did it make sense?
Now we’re flowing
Tagging writers that just posted their post today, giving the first info to the reader/writer of the pub:
Choose one to read when you are done engaging with this one. (you can comment which one you’re going to read since I’m interest who has the best headline.
Chung Yuen Keong — I Have Decided Writing Short Articles
Ripton Green — The Realities of Writing on Medium: A Balanced Perspective
Hugo — Making Money on YouTube and Generating Content: A Beginner’s Guide
Jason Toh — The Marvel of Leidenfrost Effect: Defying Extreme Temperatures
Sandra Shannon — My Reason For Writing on Medium… What’s Yours?
Atif Sharif — What Are The 5 Points Of Happiness?
Mikey's Memories — Chaotically Expressive: The Life of a Neurotic-Creative
Emy Quinn — The Worst Car Accident I Ever Witnessed Involved a Horse and a SUV
Cilian Murphy — Do You Know Which Countries Breathe The Cleanest Air?
Hugo — Dropshipping: Your Ticket to Online Money-Making
Chelsea G. — Finding Your Home On Medium
Rod Smith — Mind-Expanding Urban Shamans
Harsha Gurnani — Are You Married to Your Goals?
Mull Over — Traveling Won’t Make You Happy
Tfwadewrite — Financial Independence
Liu Xing — These Writers Are Shamelessly Plagiarising!
Adrian Virani — Day 1 — Earning $1,000 / Month with YouTube Thumbnail Design.
Chand Sukhera — James Monroe The Fifth President of the United States
Stanley Chibuike — The Use of AI in Research Work
Parin Waljee — Improving Social Interactions: Interventions For Students With Autism In School
Zoltan Gabora — Hey You! Yes, You! I Am Proud Of You!
Josh Hinton — My 10,000 Read Story: A Deep Dive
Will stop here.
Thanks for Reading
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