avatarChris Hedges

Summary

Christopher Hedges is creating a curated website, "Illumination spotlight," to link to exceptional stories from the Illumination publication on Medium, aiming to increase visibility and Google search presence for these stories.

Abstract

Christopher Hedges is developing a website dedicated to showcasing outstanding Illumination stories from Medium. Recognizing the abundance of quality content and his own limited time, he seeks community involvement to curate and submit links to noteworthy articles. The "Illumination spotlight" website will serve as a hub to amplify the reach of these stories, potentially attracting visitors from search engines and beyond the Medium platform. This initiative is also intended to boost writers' exposure and encourage more subscribers, leveraging backlinks to signal to search engines the value of the content. Hedges invites collaboration and suggestions to improve the project, emphasizing the mutual benefits of collective effort in expanding their online presence.

Opinions

  • Hedges believes that the wealth of content on Medium's Illumination publication is often overlooked due to time constraints and the sheer volume of stories.
  • He values the importance of curating quality content to enhance discoverability and reader engagement.
  • Hedges acknowledges the challenge of managing time effectively, especially with commitments like homeschooling his 14-year-old.
  • He is open to and encourages community contributions and ideas to optimize the website's functionality and impact.
  • Hedges is confident that by working together, the Illumination community can increase their collective visibility and attract a broader audience.
  • He suggests that increased exposure through external search engines can lead to growth in subscribers and recognition for writers' work.
  • Hedges views this project as a collaborative effort that can benefit all involved, including the writers, readers, and the Illumination publication as a whole.

Let’s Get Some Google Love for Illumination Stories

I’m building a curation of Illumination to help Google find us

Photo by averie woodard on Unsplash

I need your help

I’m building a website that will link to great Illumination stories.

I have limited time, like all of us, so I miss many of the great stories here on Medium. I read a lot, but the riches and treasure are so abundant that I miss things that I can’t get to read for whatever reason. These days, helping my 14-year-old with home schooling is fun, but it also takes a lot of time to do it right. I love it, though.

I’m building a website to link to your stories

I’m building a website — Illumination spotlight — to link to your stories here on Illumination. I am limiting it to this publication for right now since I’m trying to figure out how best to run the site efficiently. I think I figured out a way, but it requires your help in curating great stories and submitting them.

Here’s an example of the way backlinks from Illumination spotlight might work:

Getting links into Illumination helps all of us

Getting more traffic to the site will help us grow in the long run. Visitors from Google and other search engines might want to subscribe. People will have more exposure to your work and ideas. We will have more attention than if we just remained inside this platform’s ecosystem. We still need submissions to writer’s groups social media pages. All of those marketing efforts are very important. This is an additional way to spread our message out to the world.

It will also grow your views, which is always encouraging.

I can’t find all of the great articles

I need your help to submit the great articles. My time is limited. There are many of you. If you submit a few links, I can cut and paste them into posts that link back to our publication — increasing it’s exposure out on the web and helping to signal to search engines that it’s something they should be listing in their search results.

If you have any ideas, please let me know

I started this idea as a diversion while my son was studying yesterday, so it is still a work in progress. I enjoy being creative and find collaboration with others helps me to come up with great ideas together with others. Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] with any ideas or suggestions, or leave a comment below.

💗💗💗 Love, Chris

Writing
Publicity
Business
Marketing
Search Engine Marketing
Recommended from ReadMedium