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What I Think Of Medium After 3 Months
Well, for starters members who write on medium weren’t lying about how lonely this place can seem. I have never experienced anything like it before online. Especially after 3 months of trying different things.
I must have written almost 100 comments in a rather commentless place and hardly received any response. I’ve gotten likes on those comments but I feel it doesn’t make up for solid interaction. Even when it magically appeared on my own articles my response would receive dead air. Which ultimately makes me feel like this place is the Bermuda Triangle of all writing platforms.
When I first started on here I made sure to see what other writers were doing to get ahead. To my surprise the word publisher kept popping up over and over and over again. Big long articles were suggested so I threw my hat in that yard believing it be great for SEO. However, the thing they don’t really tell you is that outside traffic really doesn’t make a dent for earnings in this place.
Making it seem like anyone who wasn’t complying with the submit to publisher aspect of medium was doomed to fail. While also looking like a low level earning promoter of the site. Regardless how good your content is, if promoted else where you would do better having your own website with ads. This is why I will no longer do that unless I submit them to a publisher on…
