Why Sticking to Medium Will Benefit You in the Long Run

On Alexa, it has a rank of 92, The New York Times is on 86, and The Washington Post is on 180

For online publishing, it is like you are getting published in The New York Times or The Washington Post — at least technically. All the professional bloggers who know this, take Medium seriously enough to put their best work for display here.

You could earn more with your own blog — set up using WordPress — if you had a lot of written content. You could use Google Adsense ads to monetize your pages. But developing good content and working on SEO can take months or even years.

Medium has pretty robust iPhone and Android apps. These apps can send real-time notifications to mobile devices and tablets — it would take serious planning, and cost you money, if you wanted to have mobile apps for your blog or if you wanted to send real-time notifications.

But Medium can do only that much — the rest is on us. We have to write fascinating stories with killer titles, credible details, and practical takeaways.

Most of us would love to get published in The New York Times or The Washington Post. But by joining Medium Partner Program, we already have this fabulous opportunity to write about our interests and earn money in the process.

Alexa rank measures website popularity. It ranks millions of websites in order of trendiness — Google has an Alexa Rank of 1. Alexa is an Amazon service.

Alexa calculates ranks using a proprietary algorithm that combines a site’s traffic numbers and visitor engagement over the past three months.~Kim Kosaka

Medium is an online publishing platform started by Evan Williams in August 2012. The platform is based on the idea of social journalism, with amateur and professional writers and publications.

Evan Williams, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter wanted to give everybody a chance to write full-length pieces for readers to share the wisdom that resides in all of us. At the launch, he said, “There’s been less progress toward raising the quality of what’s produced.”

Medium has grown to a reader-base of 43 million, spread across the entire globe. These readers want high-quality work that can entertain, educate, and inform them about the social, political, economic, scientific, artistic, and many other fields of human knowledge.

“We are trying to make it as easy as possible for people who have thoughtful things to say”~ Evan Williams

Medium is often criticized — by many well-established blogging and publishing outlets — that it is providing amateurs with an opportunity to write, and these amateurs are confusing the audience of those publications. If you are a new writer, I would tell you to buckle up and show the world what the amateur writers can do.

You don’t buy every book when you go to a book store. You read the book reviews for guidance. The curation is a review of your written piece — by Medium. What Medium wants and what you can do about it — an explanation of the requirements for successful curation.

For a good writer, writing is a difficult challenge. It requires endless care and constant focus from the birth of the idea to the final product. Sometimes, this product is good enough to be curated and distributed into topics for the Medium members — and the writer is in for a surprise as well as a smile.

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