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Catching Up With Posts: Where Can You Find My Writing?
From WordPress to Medium, and now Vocal, I’m posting to various platforms to find the right spot for earnings.
4 min readDec 19, 2022
I’ve become increasingly frustrated with the way Medium works. Most of my views and reads are external to the site which means a couple of things.
- I’m being found on search engines which means Medium’s high-ranking SEO benefits me.
- External reads do not contribute to my earnings from the site in any way. One only gets paid if those with Medium memberships read the posts.
- Posts have to be read to the end to count for earnings.
- I do have about 3,000 views per month and 1,200 reads. This is about 3x what my blog posts garner on WordPress.
- Readers continue to follow me each day. I am up to 430 followers on Medium and 800+ followers on WordPress. There is not a lot of crossover between the two sites.
- Readers can only see (read) three of my posts per month unless they join Medium. This has frustrated some of my loyal readers (family and friends) who are regular readers of my blog.
- I’ve significantly decreased my postings on WordPress to post on Medium. (I don’t feel right about this. Those that…