Medium Boosted One of My Stories
I don’t know what I did to get a boost but I got one.
I published the story Hey Golfers — Get Physical in 2024 on January 01.
On January 03, Medium Boosted That Story.
Views and reads started to climb immediately. They peaked on January 06 when I had 316 views and 216 reads.
Guess How Much Money I Made?
Since I published that story on January 01, it has been viewed 613 times and 370 people have read it. Here’s the shocker. The total revenue generated was $0.00.
How can that be? Another story that I published on January 06, The Adventures of Dick the Cat, Day Three. Dick Meets Happy the Rabbit, has had 11 views and 5 reads and it has earned a whopping $2.35.
Here is the Answer
I purposely did not put Hey Golfers — Get Physical in 2024 behind the paywall so that non-Medium viewers could read the whole story when I shared it on LinkedIn and Facebook.
Moving Forward
I continue to keep most of my stories relating to golf free for non-Medium members so that I can share them with golfers in my area.
One of these days I will create The Hungry Golfer website and post them on my blog site and use canonical links on the Medium stories to prevent duplicate content issues.
Once that is done I can put all Medium stories behind the paywall and hope that Medium decides to boost one of my stories in the future.