The Ultimate Useful Medium Articles List

All in one place for your convenience!

If you’ve followed me or come across any of my articles — you know I like to help people on Medium.com — a lot.

Often when I publish a huge listicle or guide, people will ask me questions, which I’m more than happy to help answer! But the thing is, there’s a good chance I’ve covered those questions in detail already.

I just hadn’t thought to collect all my thoughts in one place.

Now that I finally did it…hot damn, I didn’t realize just how much I’ve written on the subject!

My hope is that between the many publication lists, Medium tips/hacks, and general advice for blogging — that this article can help answer most of your questions!

If you see anything out of date or plain flat out wrong (I’m only human, after all), please let me know in the comments!

Let’s get started.

Note: Just in case you haven’t become a Medium member yet, I’d love you eternally if you signed up using my referral link! I’ll get a small commission at no cost to you and you’ll get eternal love — win-win!

Your support means I can keep writing these fandangled posts to keep helping all of you amazing peeps. Any support is appreciated!

Update 06/19/2021: I’ve since released these additional related articles. It turns out I may have no life.

90 of the best opening hooks on Medium
17 of the best books on writing
I just hit 10,000 followers, here’s how I did it
Easy trick to getting a Top Writer award
Be a mimic in your writing for a massive productivity boost
8 step guide to getting into awesome publications
47 tips to writing an awesome headline from top writers
This awesome trick to easily add humor to your writing
6 of the best moves to make as a brand new writer on Medium
17 active fiction publications on Medium
Unannounced awesome feature change on Medium
A secret to modern success as a writer
Leak of internal Medium turmoil
Is this the death of Medium-owned pubs?
The power of idea sex in your writing
33 free writing tools to use
The 15 articles made over $500 each on Medium
Write and submit stories to Feedium
Use these 414 alternative adjectives to spice up your writing
332 headlines with over 10,000 claps each
How to use ‘Feel to Reel’ to improve your headlines
How many Kindle books do bestsellers actually sell?
No more clickbait allowed on Medium
Some workarounds for your Medium news feed
Why your views went down but reading time stayed the same
How to find out what topics you’ve been curated in
The one truth about newsletters you need to know
How to create a profile image for your Medium account
Treat Medium pubs just like guest blogs
Medium stats aren’t what you think they are
Please don’t erase us, Medium
The 10 most popular articles from the 10 most popular Medium pubs
5 incredibly easy ways to massively improve your images
Why don’t my articles earn more than $10?
The impossible Medium article that has over 1 million claps
How many stories are published on Medium each month?
Did you know you have an RSS feed on Medium?
The 107 statistically most inspirational authors on Medium
How to set up a custom domain on Medium
How much does Medium.com earn in revenue vs what they payout
Why you need to space out your articles for more views
How to make sure a tag is effective in a story
An easy trick to getting more views on your articles
Stop using this ‘hack’ in Medium, it’s annoying

Medium Guides:

Writing guides for Medium.com can be a bit tedious, but it seems that many people find them useful. I’m always glad to research a subject to absolute boredom/death and then share the best parts of the information.

With that in mind, here are several complete guides covering topics such as earning money on Medium.com, writing online for money, Medium curation, building email lists as a blogger, and how to apply to publications as a beginner.

Medium Hacks and Tips:

After almost 1 year of heavy, heavy use of the platform, I’ve come across dozens of tips and tricks that aren’t readily known.

How did I find these? By reading anything and everything I can about the platform. And tinkering. I love tinkering with the online platforms that I use.

Just even playing with the “/” function on a lot of website addresses can lead you down some interesting roads.

Want to see the most popular articles a publication has ever posted? Type “/archive” after the publication name in the URL bar.

There’s tonnes more interesting tips and ‘hacks’ (as the kids say) in these articles.

Lists of Medium Publications:

Some of my most popular articles are these massive listicles of publications. When I first joined Medium, I didn’t really understand what a ‘publication’ was.

I thought it might be similar to a real-life magazine. Or perhaps it was something like Wired. I didn’t know, so I spent a lot of time figuring out what it was.

For those that don’t — it’s essentially an online collection of people’s articles — usually privately run. Authors need to apply to be added as a writer on a publication. Once that’s been approved, they can then submit individual articles for approval by that publication.

There are more than 12,000 publications on Medium, but many are no longer active.

Of these, the vast majority are privately run. Some of them do get paid by Medium if they are large enough.

There’s also a handful (10+) of Medium owned publications that are run as a magazine.

One of the biggest things I struggled with was finding where to put my wide variety of articles and stories. That’s why I started making collections of publications.

And now, 8 months later after starting that…well, here’s are a lot of categorized publication lists for you! Enjoy!

(Note: Almost all of these lists are of publications that still accept writers and are still active. They do tend to change this policy occasionally when they get overloaded, so a few may no longer do that nor be active now. If you see that, please let me know in the comments! Thanks!)

Interesting Things About Medium:

With almost 300 million visitors to Medium.com every month — there is bound to be an insane amount of interesting articles to read.

After all, something keeps bringing them to the website!

I’m always a sucker for an interesting story — especially when it’s backed up and even more when it includes data.

So, occasionally I set out to discover some of these data-heavy interesting aspects of Medium myself.

Who is popular on Medium? Why do people get a lot of views? What makes Medium editors select certain stories as ‘popular on Medium’? Etc etc.

I found these topics interesting, maybe you will too!

Special Mention: Medium Writer Twitter Database

I have one last article to share. It didn’t get many views, but I’m hoping over time to change this a bit.

Medium is inherently connected to Twitter, the founder of Medium.com, Ev Williams, was a founder at Twitter itself.

I wanted to make a list for those of us that also have a Twitter account to connect — and here it is!

The Ultimate (hopefully) Medium Writer Twitter list

Wrap up

That’s it! For now at least. Thanks for reading and I really hope you find some of the articles useful.

I do plan on writing a few remaining topics and areas that I haven’t covered.

It’s my goal to get those written in the next couple of months and add them to the list here.

You can also keep track of my new articles (about this and other interesting subjects — plus some ‘odd’ humor occasionally) with my free newsletter!

Lastly, I have a publication for any and all articles related to blogging and Medium. We have a guest writer section so if you feel like joining, just mention it in the comments!

Feedium

Medium is hungry. Feed it.

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Thanks and have a great day!

Note Again: Just in case you haven’t become a Medium member yet, I’d love you eternally if you signed up using my referral link! I’ll get a small commission at no cost to you and you’ll get eternal love — win-win!

More support means I can keep writing these fandangled posts to help all of you amazing peeps. Any support is appreciated!

J.J. Pryor

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