How I Recovered From a Bad Week and Boosted My Medium Stats

I was feeling sick the last week and couldn’t write or engage much on Medium. But then I got back on track and saw my stats soar. This is my quick story of how I did it.

Hi all, I just wanted to share a quick post about engagement on here. I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather lately, nothing serious, but it stopped me from doing what I love on Medium: posting and interacting with you all. And I noticed that my story reads took a hit.

Before I got poorly last week, I was getting around 100 to 130 reads a day, but then it dropped to about 20. Maybe it was because I wasn’t posting anything new, but I think it was mainly because I wasn’t engaging. I realised this and decided to get back into it. Yesterday, I started reading and commenting again, and I’ve been doing it today too. And guess what? My stats have gone up! Yesterday, they started to rise again, and I didn’t even post that much. I only posted one story about the adorable border collie called Bear who knows the names of 97 of his toys.

This confirms the 70/30 rule that people talk about on here. I agree that it’s about 70% of your time reading and 30% of your time posting something engaging. Not only does it help you attract readers to your own stories, but it also gives you inspiration along the way. Everything we need is on here. You might read one story and it might spark another idea.

I’m not too fussed about this at all. I’m actually really pleased that

I learned something. I don’t depend on this platform for money. I just enjoy it. Of course, it’s nice when you earn some money on here, and I wasn’t thrilled when my stats went down, but it was a lesson. It showed me that if you get involved on here, things get better and better, no matter what level you are at. You can learn everything on here.

I really hope to muster up the courage to start posting some more personal stories for you to give your opinions on, criticise and comment. Because I think there's a great community here, and I've met a lot of lovely helpful people. I've only had to use the block button a few times, and the accounts I blocked were probably ones that any of you reading this would have blocked as well.

If this was any other platform, and I was putting out this volume of content, I’m sure I’d have a folder full of blocked bots and trolls. It’s been a really good experience so far, and I want to thank you all for that. I hope you all have an amazing day. 😊