Exactly How I Earned $300 in August Writing On Medium

Complete step-by-step documentation to make more money writing on Medium.

Can you ever imagine making money from Medium without getting curation and published in a popular publication?

This could be a case study for you. Making money on Medium isn’t easy for everyone and that is why just 5% of the Medium writers make $100+ a month on Medium. Most newcomers on Medium find it very difficult to get views so this could be a case study for you to read and implement on writing on Medium.

I am living in an underdeveloped country. Life is hard and it is very difficult sometimes to even find good services here. I am feeling lucky that Medium exists — a platform where I could write and make money. Writing online is a privilege. I even wrote a complete 6000+ words article on Medium about Making money writing online.

Passive Income on Medium:

There are two ways to ways to make money on Medium — Medium Partner Program and affiliate marketing. If you use the right strategy and learn some SEO, you can make a passive income through both these ways. I accidentally wrote an article and this article continuously brings me dollars on my Medium Partner Program.

$187 from a single story with no curation and not getting curated on any topic. This story, maybe, will be the first story to make me $1,000 with getting curated or published in a popular publication. There are a bunch of other stories that still making me money even though I have spent less than an hour writing those articles.

The two ways to start passive income from the Medium Partner program are to either getting curated on Medium or rank your stories on Google search. From the above picture as you can see, only 4% of my traffic is internal and less 2% of them were Medium members. This is how you could build a system where you could make money from stories published a year ago.

Affiliate marketing is also very rewarding. I have added just one affiliate link of a company and they are paying me a fix $70 a month, every month. What is the secret? write stories about a niche and try to getting ranked for highly competitive and high search volume keywords. Companies will contact you, yourself.

Publishing more stories and writing long-form content

This is not something nobody knows about but something that you learn with time. Medium pays you for getting more medium member views. They pay based on reading time. The longer you keep the reader, reading your content, the more money you will make. That’s why publishing more stories and writing long-form content is important.

Task: Just for the experimental purpose, starting from now, write 50% more stories then you published last month. Note down the earnings at the very beginning of the next month.

A very famous writer on Medium published 35 stories every month. Yes, that is nearly 1 article on Medium every single day with sometimes publishing 2. That’s why you need to write more stories and forget about the earnings on Medium.

The second important thing is “Writing long-form content” long-form content has many advantages;

• It helps you describe the whole situation very clearly.
• The reader gets all the information s(he) needs to know about a topic.
• Good for search engine optimization.
• In the case of Medium, you can make more money by getting more read time.

Write on Multiple platforms:

If you are a writer on Medium then you are officially in the writing business. I know there are some people who make a good amount of money writing on Medium by getting curated and in my honest opinion, if your stories get curated and you are making thousands of dollars, you still need to promote your writing because this will help you grow your brand.

I write on Quora about topics like Blogging, search engine marketing, Medium, and Quora. I had over 5.1 Million views and writing on Quora help me a lot in achieving my writing goals.

I run a YouTube channel where I talk about the very same topics and these videos help me finding targeted audiences, as well as I, am making money on YouTube and building a community.

Having a blog is also a good choice for promoting your brand. I run a blog where I talk about the very same topics.

Similarly, you can find other platforms where you could promote your brand.

Create a pillar content and then distribute the content into dozens of small pieces on different platforms. (Gary Vee)

That’s my secret. I never keep anything secret about my earnings and how I earn money on Medium. Writing is a long-game. You can’t make $100 a day writing on Medium from the very first day. I am writing on Medium for the last one and a half years.

There is a theory that “It takes 7 years to be successful in Blogging, the first 5 years is hard work and the rest 2 years is your success years”

My Earning breakdown:

• $235 from the Medium Partner Program. I have already explained about my earnings and how did I make this amount of money in this article.
• $70 from Affiliate marketing. A company is paying me $70 every month for adding their link in one of my articles.

That’s set.

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