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The One Medium Feature That Will Make You Lose Money If You’re on the Medium Partner Program

All it takes is unticking this box

I love trying new things. When I was a new Medium writer, I was curious and was looking for ways to improve my monthly payout.

Here are the things that I thought would work:

1. Write every day, publish a story a day.
2. Write for big Medium publications.
3. Write well so that the story will be chosen for further distribution.

None of them worked. And a lot of other stuff that today doesn’t make sense, because if there is one thing that we all know about writing on Medium is the unpredictability of the Medium earnings.

So, one day, I thought maybe if I delist stories that didn’t receive views or made money to make way for newer stories, it will help me make more money.

I unlisted this story — The Top 10 Active Medium Publications And Are They Open for Submission in [2022]?

And when you do, it automatically stops making money.

I totally forgot about my little experiment until I noticed an uptick in the number of views, I was receiving last December 2021.

But it wasn’t coming from my new stories, and when I investigated the views were coming from the story I ‘unlisted.’

And to my horror, the views were coming from Medium members, meaning I was losing money all because of a silly experiment.

From November 25, 2021, until March 24, 2022, I wasn’t making any money while the story was getting more views.

Lesson learned.

So never do what I did, and always make sure you tick the box that says — Meter your story.

In closing, don’t put too much time into thinking about how to improve your views and reads.

When you are new, focus on writing more stories, it does get better as you publish more stories.

Once you have more data to analyze, you will discover what would work for you, because there are no secrets to Medium success, aside from good storytelling, and great headlines.

Thank you for reading.

Here are some of my stories, all complimentary. 👉Ricky Martin Denies Charges of Incest and Can Spend the Rest of His Life in Jail If Found Guilty — Free Reading.

👉Clothes Optional My First Nude Beach Experience, Not as Bad as Adam Sandler’s — Free Reading.

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