Clap already! You are going to like this.
I’m pretty certain that Mediums policy states something about asking for attention.
I did it. Sue me. It won’t get curated anyway.
Or wouldn’t that be a complete mind fuck?
I just wanted to see if people could band together somehow, I really am not doing it for attention or money.
Pretend someone else wrote this for all I care.
Let’s be real. All website traffic equals money. The more time your on the page the better. You’re engaged. Why do you think the Partner Program focuses on read time?
Truth is, they are making money even from external clicks. How you ask?
The Con
Well, normally to drive people to a website you have to do quite a bit of marketing and work with Facebook Ads or Google Ads and pay for traffic. Per click.
What happens when a person found your article on, wow, Google search? It means nothing for you. Just another reader.
What has Medium done then? Drove traffic to your page. And guess what? By you writing articles you are their marketing expert.
You are writing about what people want to hear about. That external view may very well, and Medium surely hopes, that they read more till the point they ask for membership.
They clicked on your article, they’re already seeing similar stories in their feed.
Guess what, you were the bait.
The fact is, all Medium members who pay the $5 landed on Medium somehow and got interested enough to join. Being that they weren’t a member at the time obviously, their visit to the site was what? An external view.
Everyone joins Medium through external views. Didn’t you read a story before you joined?
They are hoping you wrote well enough to make that customer want to join.
And if they join Medium because they landed on your story?
Yeah, you’re not going to see a dime. External views mean no money for the writers doing the work to attract business, while Medium profits.
If you took the work to do some SEO on your article, Medium is like so what? They only care if the members read your story.
25 million subscribers. 25 million marketers generating leads is what that is. And they hold a net worth of 400 million dollars.
That’s $16 a person. Most don’t see that ever. You are counting on other writers reading your content.
I say clap already because it’s time for a change. It’s just like Facebook makes money everytime we scroll past an ad and we don’t get jack but have to deal with it. It’s exactly like commercials.
We are being used, and our hopes and dreams of being a great writer are actually only being used against us.
You mean to tell me 1,000 people viewing my post by clicking it from Google is worth nothing?
Bullshit
I just drove 1,000 possible customers to your site, with a percentage of which they have already figured will join.
Let’s say it’s 1%. So 10 people join out of your 1,000 views you brought in. That’s 50 bucks. And you are NOT going to see a penny NOR get the credit for leading them there.
It’s like your a car salesman going through talking to a prospective client, you take them for a test drive, and after 3 hours of talking, your boss comes in and closes the deal. And takes all the commission too.
That’s exactly what is happening.
Hey, you don’t get anywhere unless you say something.
