How To Be a Top Writer On Medium? Get A Top Writer Status on Your Profile
I am a top writer in two tags and here is the story of how I achieved this milestone.
Do you want to be a top writer in your favorite tag? If your answer is “Yes” then this Medium story is for you.
Getting a top writer status is the best thing could happen with you after getting Curated and published in a popular publication. Medium uses a top writer tag to give credibility to an author, getting a top writer status in a tag means that you have great stories about this tag and you have written enough stories under the tag you are a top writer.
If you become a top writer, Medium will send you an email. The email looks like this;
There are a lot of misconceptions about getting a top writer status on Medium.
Some misconceptions about top writer status
- The more you use this tag means the more the chances that I will be selected as a top writer. Actually, if you are a new writer and get lower internal traffic on Medium then publishing more stories under the same tag will not make you a top writer. It takes time to build a following and getting a top writer status.
- Medium employees select top writers. Medium has an algorithm that finds the authors that use that tag and get good internal views. This is like a competition.
- All tags have the same competitive level. In some tags, Medium chooses 25 top writers while in others like in Reading tag, they only select 10 Top writers. The competition level varies with the popularity of the tag.
The popular the tag is, the more competitive it will be a top writer in that tag.
Not every tag is recognized as a top writer. Here is the list of the tags that you could a top writer on Medium.
- Advice
- Art
- Architecture
- Artificial Intelligence
- Books
- Business
- Marketing
- Media
- TV
- Startups
- Life lessons
- Design
- Creativity
- Culture
- Gaming
- Health
- Humor
- Investing
- Life
- Fiction
- Poetry
- LBGTQ+
- Parenting
- Productivity
- Reading
- Social Media
- Relationships
- Satire
- Travel
- Writing
- Women in Tech
- Technology
- Self Improvement
- This happened with me
- Music
- Movies
How to get a top writer status on Medium?
- Write Quality articles: If you want to be a top writer on Medium then you should have to go for Quality over Quantity. Quality on Medium is been recognized with getting Curated or might be published in a popular publication. When your story has some value and it is published in a popular publication then the chances of this story to goes viral are quite high.
- Be Consistent: If you are targeting a single tag to be a top writer then you need to be consistent in publishing stories. Choose a schedule, like publishing one story with one day break period or publish twice in a week. You need to be a consistent writer on Medium. Top writer badges are given for one month period, to retain your top writer badge then you need to write more articles in a month that get you more views on that tag.
- Getting your follower read your story: There are some writers that have a good amount of followers but still they receive very little engagement on their new medium stories. If you want to get a top writer status on Medium then you will get it very easily if you have a loyal follower base.
- Make sure you use that Tag into the your Medium stories tag section.
Some useful practices on Medium
- Always add tags on Medium. Adding popular tags on Medium, you increase the chances of getting a top writer status on Medium as well as getting curated.
- Adding tags to your Medium stories will increase its chances of discoverability on Medium search.
- Add relevant tags to your Medium story. Don’t add a “Marketing” tag to your story if you have talked about “Life lessons” in your Medium article.
- Optimize your story for search. You might not make a good amount of money from search traffic but still more people will find it helpful.
- Write Longer stories on Medium. This is especially true for people who want to make more money. Medium pays you for getting more Medium member read time. Longer stories accommodate more read time.
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