How to Get Your First 10,016 Views on Medium

Writing great stories is central to any effective Medium strategy.

If your stories suck you will not get recommends. If they’re awesome, they will.

Here are two factors that can maximize your click to view conversion rate:

• An engaging title that displays the value the reader can gain and intrigues them to read on.
• An attention grabbing and engaging image.

When readers find your story outside of Medium, then highlight or recommend it, their followers on Medium see it. 

In addition, Medium sees that it could be worthy of featuring more prominently to more users — giving you an exponential boost.

Medium Publications drive distribution to two audiences rather than just one.

1. Step One: Check out “Top Publications”, a leaderboard for the top Medium Publications

2. Step Two: Choose the right Publication for your story.

There are two primary factors to consider when choosing a publication:

• How many followers does the publication have?
• How relevant is your story to the publication’s topic areas?

3. Step Three: Craft a compelling pitch.

Medium users follow tags based on their interests so that the stories in their feed are more relevant to their interests. By selecting the right tags, you can increase the number of relevant readers who will find your story.

When you click the “Publish” dropdown button on your draft, you’ll have the option to add tags.

Even with the best stories and the best promotion strategies, there is some degree of chance to success on Medium. Some stories will “blow up” and others will hardly whisper.

To increase my chances of success, you need to make more attempts.