USAGE INSTRUCTIONS // MEDIUM TOPIC INSIGHTS

Topic Targeting (Google Chrome Extension) August 2023 Update

Or… How to install and use the FREE Google Chrome extension — ‘Medium Topic Insights’

Your voice is important, so make sure that it gets heard — this extension evaluates the topics on the article settings page, gives you the potential audience reach, and suggests topics for you.

People follow other writers and topics.

Getting people to follow you means that you need to write good articles, but how do you get people to read your article in the first place?

When you first sign up, you are given a list of topics that you want to follow — these topics help influence the feed of articles that you will see in your reading list.

So targeting the correct topic with greater followers will mean that there is more opportunity for more people to see your article.

But how do you know which topics have the greatest (or fewest) number of followers?

You can look at the https://medium.com/tag/<topic_name> page for each topic that you are considering (where <topic_name> is the topic that people follow) and evaluate each tag, or, alternatively, you can…