#Tags
How To Use Tags On Medium The Right Way? The Power Of Adding Tags
Adding tags to your Medium stories will increase its viewership. Some great Medium stories didn’t get good exposure because of poor tagging practices.
Optimizing your story for the Medium members and curators is the most important thing you had to do to make sure you get more exposure. Adding tags to your Medium stories is the most important part. I have published over 150 blog posts on Medium and read a lot of great stories and one thing I find the most attractive is to “the right way to add tags to your Medium stories”
Tags make it easy for you to get discovered on Medium across the platform.
When a person searching for something using the Medium search bar, and you have a tag related to that topic, your story shows up.
Let say I have published a story adding a tag “Niche” into it. A person searching for “Niche ideas” will get my article in a search result. Medium slot search results based on the number of claps, so if you didn’t found your story on first spot of the medium search result then this means, you need to scroll down to find it.
You can add up to 5 tags in your Medium story. These tags should be relevant to the Medium story.
Read: What is a good “read ratio” on Medium?
SEO Importance of adding tags to your Medium stories
For SEO Purposes, adding relevant tags is very important. Big companies like Medium, Quora, and YouTube add tags in their posts because “they have a value and the algorithm recommendations depend upon the relevant tags in a story”
When a search engine crawl visits your blog post then it also recognizes “Tags” and this helps you get ranked on search results. This is why the Medium Writers recommend adding popular tags to your Medium stories because this will helps you getting ranked in search engines.
Diversify your Medium tags
Don’t just add similar tags in your Medium stories. If you are writing a story with the title “The 11 life lessons I have to learn while programming” then you should add tags like, “Life”, “Life Lessons”, “Programming”, “Lessons”, and “Learning”
This how you can diversify your Medium tags will help you to grow more because a large number of people could find your article.
Adding popular tags
Adding popular tags in your Medium story will open a whole new audience base to you. Here how you can find popular tags by just typing a word in the tag section of your Medium story.
As you can see there is a number in front of every tag. The number 415K shows that in total, 415,000 stories published on Medium have this tag.
On Instagram, people often want to find hashtags that have great searches but a low number of posts have that hashtag. But, the same concept doesn’t apply here. You have to find the tags that have more stories are published in. It will help the Medium algorithm to show it to the people based on “Stories based on your Reading history” in the feed.
Getting a Top Writer Status through adding tags
If you are publishing stories more often and using the same tag and getting good traffic to that tag story then you might receive an email of getting a top writer status on that tag. I recently got a top writer status in “Reading” and their email looks like this one.
If you want to get a top writer status then you need the following things;
- Write more stories adding the same tag. Don’t spam.
- Just writing isn’t enough, you have to make sure more Medium members find your story and they read it.
There are three ways to get more traffic to your Medium stories, getting curated, published in a popular publication, and build an email list of Medium members or let Medium member discover your story through the search engine and for that reason this is “Why Tagging is so powerful tool on Medium”
Adding tags is basically adding #Hashtags.
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