INSPIRATION

“Your Audience Needs to Scroll All the Way to the Very Bottom of the Page”

Policy is confirmed TODAY by Medium User Services

[This story has been edited to make it more accurate. A follow-up story is planned.]

Medium writers, do your readers scroll all the way to the very bottom of the page?

Only then do you —

• get credit for a “read” 💹

A personal note

Sometimes my pieces get lots of claps and comments, but fewer reads. Medium User Services has confirmed that —

In order to trigger a read, your audience needs to scroll all the way to the very bottom of the page. If you have a large footer, it is possible that your reader will not scroll all the way past that to trigger the read.

Thanks, Andy User Services

For more reads, read this

You may want to reconsider if you’re—

• embedding box links (such as referral links) at the end that readers don’t scroll past
• embedding long videos, especially at the end, that readers don’t finish
• including a copyright notice, which is not required (and which may not stop poachers)
• not finishing strong.

Bonus Tip — If you’re not tracking your reads versus claps and comments, you may want to START NOW

Thank you for reading and scrolling to the end. 🙏🏻 It’s good karma.

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