MEDIUM RARE // TOPICS // WRITING

What Topics Made Me The Most Money On Medium

Or… How I spent a lot of time evaluating my stories on Medium and my surprising insight

I did some analysis of the articles that I published and the topics that were assigned to them. Laborious, yes, but the results were insightful.

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So Many Things Are Important, But Topics Are Importanter

I have published 239 articles on Medium (this is my 240th) over the almost 3 years that I have been a member.

I do not publish often and am more curious about the writing process than the money-making aspect.

Don’t get me wrong — I do like seeing the partner payment dashboard slowly click over on a daily basis.

And then it sort of hit me, if I am going to write, why not ensure that I get the maximum interaction with each of my stories….

So I sat down, looked at a lot of my previous articles, and started writing down information on earnings and topics.

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