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The REAL Reason You’re Not Getting Views

What I learned from running a Pub.

This post was stuck in the draft for a while but I saw Carl Jeffers’s post about it, so I might as well do it too. (You can Read his post here.)

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I have been running a Pub for about a month now, I can’t say I read more than others but I certainly have seen a couple of hundreds of posts from new writers.

Why this one mistake is worth a post of its own?

From my data, I see that little over 10% of the writers are not using tags or topics before they hit submit to publication or post.

But what was more concerning was where the writer used the wrong or lower profile topics sometimes even including only 1 to 3 topics.

Usually, I would just help add and send a note sometimes but other times I can only add the ones I see fit, as the depth of each post is different, you REALLY need to create a habit of knowing what tags to put on what topic you are writing about.

Titles, Tags/Topics, and Pubs, Which One Moves The Needles Most?

Tags or topics are far the ones that are running the show, without them you simply can’t show up anywhere that is relevant to your content.

The audience will be unaware because 99 other people are doing it right and your posts are just missing out or stuck somewhere in the void.

Here is where you should add the Topics page looks like before you submit.

Image of adding Topics/tags page.

What I see is new writers or writers are not using relevant topics to post under. It does make me want to edit it all the way but I’m not here to do that.

Make the topic a bit relatively compact rather than all board.

What does that mean?

If you are writing about writing tips or advice. Yet, you can always throw in a money component if it makes sense.

For topics, you can put Writing, Writing Tips, Writer, Make Money Online, Advice, Life Lessons and more. (keep in mind what you put will directly effect the traffic placement)

And so on make sure to choose the one that fits your topic or you can see what similar posts that do well are doing.

Sometimes it may seem that nothing works but you need to try enough to get a hold of it.

After all this work and fail at the last step, which is heartbreaking to see.

And if you need to know the best time to Post, I got one for you:

Or Perhaps you can learn from the Engagement Done Right as a New Writer.

Thanks for Reading

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