Inspiration and Motivation
Do You Want To Read An Article Read Every Single Day For 18 Months?
If your answer is yes, I can introduce a special article hosted on ILLUMINATION.
A simple yet informative and educative article by Helen Cassidy Page has found readers every single day since its inception on 08 August 2019.
The article introduces three tips from an editor’s and a writer’s perspective to curation success on Medium.
Helen is a top writer and an experienced editor on Medium and other platforms, as some may know.
As an author of 55 published book, Helen provided significant guidance to writers and editors. Many of her articles were curated by Medium.
Let me give you some stats on this unique article.
Here are the views and reads since August 2019
This article was viewed by 13,400 people and it received 252 hours of reading time.
And more importantly, it received an average of three minutes of reading time.
The engagement rate was also high as it received over 15,000 claps and 135 comments.
You may ask how come readers find this article among 150,000+ articles hosted on ILLUMINATION?
The secret is the indexing of the article by search engines.
Since the engagement rate was highly coupled with the high domain authority of Medium and association with ILLUMINATION’s publishing records on search engines, the article hits search queries with keywords.
Helen used powerful tags which links the article to powerful keywords. Readers searching for terms “editing, advice, success, curation, and writing” will most likely find this article in every search engine, including Google.
I know some skeptics will not believe me.
But I have evidence.
This unique article tops Google page when these five terms used in search bar. In fact, it turns to be the first article showing on Google out of 12,800,000 results.
Can you see the power of indexing?
Who is the audience for this special article?
Medium provides insights on audience profile. You can find them from the stats page of your stories.
Helen’s readers have an interest in writing, creativity, self, books, psychology, and freelancing as shown in this screenshot.
Curated articles never die.
I am glad Medium curated this article in August 2019 and distributed it to topics. Therefore, I give special attention to curated stories and give them a second chance on my publications particularly on ILLUMINATION-Curated hosting thousands of curated stories from top writers of Medium.
When I found this article homeless a year ago, I asked Helen whether she would add it to ILLUMINATION. Her kind answer was yes. I am grateful that many readers find Helen’s stories engaging and insightful.
I can hear now, you are saying, enough of the stats, where is this remarkable article. I know you want to read it and learn from it.
Without further ado, here it is for your enjoyment.
3 Tips From an Editor to Help Your Curation Chances
You can connect with Helen on her Medium profile and follow her many more insightful and engaging stories.
This article will be a classic. It will be read and enjoyed by many readers and many more years, as long as Medium exists.
Thank you for reading my perspectives.
If you liked this post, you may also check this interesting one featuring an outstanding story of Melinda Blau who is another accomplished writer like Helen.
About me
I am the founder and chief editor of ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’ S MIRROR, Technology Hits, and SYNERGY. I established these significant publications supporting 8,600+ writers and serving 110,000+ readers on Medium.
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