Medium + Backlink = Great SEO

My “Secrets to Great Writing” story is #4 on Google after one day

I didn’t start out to run a search engine optimization experiment yesterday when I wrote “My Secret to Great Writing.”

But, I was curious to see what would happen if I searched for my story for the first time on Google. Using the title as my search term, I was happy that it shows up in the №4 position in the search engine results for “my secret to great writing.”

I didn’t do much for SEO on this story.

I just wrote it as I would any other story. It was picked up by Illumination Amplifier, All the Greats and all the other efforts fellow Illuminators have made with Flipboard, Twitter and Facebook.

Medium has great SEO cachet.

Putting in a little extra help can move stories up in the search engine results.

It’s a remarkable power to remember we have here with our publication and our writing. We can reach the world easily.

A few key points:

The headline is a H1 header for SEO purposes, from my observations. Write your headline to reflect what you want to show up in the search engines when people enter their queries.

Get a couple of backlinks to your story from outside of Medium. Illumination Amplifier and Publisher’s Spotlight help with this.

Also, thank all of your fellow Illuminators for their Tweeting, Flipboarding, Linked In-ing, and Facebooking (and everything else that may be doing). That helps make our publication an internet powerhouse.

Your work can make a difference

Remember your words have power. You can reach the world. Illumination has that power. We can see it in the power it has to reach readers on Google.

🦄 Chris Hedges, BA, JD, does SEO for her own businesses and for others. I continue to experiment and learn the art and science of search engine optimization because it is fascinating to me.