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Use These Top Popular 25 Tags If You Want Your Stories To Go Viral
Your stories have the potential for greatness
If you want all eyes on your story, what is the best way to get it on Medium?
Everybody wants to go viral, but few succeed. If you’re serious about writing and want to see your name in light, here are the most important tips to help you produce stories that go viral.
Thousands of stories are written every day and few of them can reach many people. We’re aiming for that story that can reach most of the medium users. But most of the stories are not getting reads and views on medium.
Tagging stories is one of the most important elements of storytelling on Medium. Using the right tags can get your story views and reads more, and if you use the correct tag for a story it can even become viral.
What is the mistake of choosing the popular tag?
However, most people make mistakes to choose the correct tags for the story. In this post, I will show you how to choose the most popular tags on medium. I will also provide a list of 25 popular tags that will boost views and reads on your story.
When we choose tags for our medium story, it shows the number of stories that the tag used. However, it does not show the number of followers. We can find the number of followers of a particular topic using the medium mobile app.
For example, when you will search “Science”, you will see 120K stories and 1.6M followers. If we search Marketing, we will find 333K Stories but 420K Followers.
If you use the “Science” tag on your story, it has 1.6M potential readers who can view and read your story. On the other hand, If you use the “Marketing” tag on your story, it has 420K potential readers who can view and read your story.
Here we can see that the Science tag has more followers than Marketing tag. However, the Marketing tag is more used in stories than the Science tag. Most of the time, we thought the Marketing tag is more popular than the Science tag. That’s our mistake!
How medium distributes the story to the users?
When you signed up on medium.com, you chose some topics to your taste. When you browse medium to read stories, the platform distributes the stories according to your chosen topic lists. You will also get the story from the writer and publications you follow.
For example, if a user selects the tag ‘SEO’ on medium and stories from SEO keep showing up in their recommended stories list, then the user reads it because there is one or more that interest them.
Most popular tags on Medium
There are thousands of tags to choose from, but I’ve found that the most popular tags on Medium are:
- Technology (432K Stories, 2.7M Followers)
- Design (289K Stories, 1.8M Followers)
- Travel (364K Stories, 1.8M Followers)
- Business (389K Stories, 1.7M Followers)
- Science (120K Stories, 1.6M Followers)
- Health (444K Stories, 1.4M Followers)
- Relationships (278K Stories, 1.1M Followers)
- Social Media (273K Stories, 1.3M Followers)
- Writing (416K Stories, 1.3M Followers)
- Politics (435K Stories, 1.2M Followers)
- Self Improvement (410K Stories, 1.2M Followers)
- Education (372K Stories, 1.1M Followers)
- Startup (526K Stories, 1M Followers)
- Life (638K Stories, 1M Followers)
- Life Lessons (536K Stories, 1M Followers)
- Money (137K Stories, 939K Followers)
- Entrepreneurship (367K Stories, 966K Followers)
- Cryptocurrency (477K Stories, 954K Followers)
- Poetry (553K Stories, 811K Followers)
- Blockchain (587K Stories, 583K Followers)
- Lifestyle (97K Stories, 548K Followers)
- Love (421K Stories, 484K Followers)
- Data Science (164K Stories, 463K Followers)
- Marketing (333K Stories, 420K Followers)
- Machine Learning (187K Stories, 329K Followers)
Bonus tips
- If you write blog posts regularly then you need to be sharing them with your social media followers. Why? While Google loves fresh, new content, it also loves linkable content. Sharing your posts on social media makes it easier for other sites to take your content and links back to your site. This will boost your Google rankings and help increase traffic to your site.
- Another important aspect of a viral story is the headline. If you want to make viral stories, you must ensure that your headlines match your stories. Because after all, it’s the headline that will help people decide if they want to click on it.
- Yet being popular online is about more than writing good stories. It’s about reading other people’s work, sharing and commenting, attracting the attention of like-minded writers, and helping them through constructive discussion.
Final Thoughts
Your stories have the potential for greatness. Make sure you give them a chance to succeed by giving them the best shot with Medium Tags!
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