Attain 1,000 followers on Medium who are genuinely engaged in your articles.
Cheers everyone! We made it to 100 followers! Woot woot! We did it!
I’m talking about the lovely new found community who read and followed my recent article:
This article explains the strategies in getting more followers, if you haven’t read it, make sure to read it prior to reading this article.
Sooooo… now what?
Now… let’s optimize that strategy!
Post Often and with High-Quality Content
Give people what they want to read.
Write your articles well, provide tons of value and write them often!
Post a frikkin’ amazing article every frikkin’ day! No excuses!
At least post 3–5 articles per week to hit the Medium algorithm.
Increased Genuine Engagement
Now that we’re monetized we still care about followers BUT…
We need to care more about reads, claps, and comments!
Medium cares the most about ENGAGEMENT!
If you have a million followers that never read, clapped, or commented on your articles then what’s the point? They’re pretty much just NPC’s (non-player characters).
Ask for Read-for-Reads or Clap-for-Claps or Comment-for-Comments.
At the end of the day, the most important engagement is genuine reads so ask for Read4Reads.
Commenting & Supporting Others
Read and reply back to ALL the comments that people write to you.
And most importantly write back an intelligent, quirky, or funny comment. A reply they can learn from, or laugh at, etc so that you are memorable and creating value in the comments section, not just your articles.
Chances are they will follow you (if they haven’t already done so) and have future engagement with your articles.
Medium is a very supportive community and we can all become successful if we help each other out.
I’ve even made some new friends that I’ve made on Medium which is a beautiful thing! Genuine connections with people all over the world is an amazing blessing.
Join the Facebook Group “Medium Writers & Genuine Readers”
- Write a post linking people to your new article and ask for reads, 50x claps, and comments for genuine ENGAGEMENT. Once they reply with what they did (whether it be read/clap, or clap/comment, etc), then reciprocate it on their article.
- Reply to other people‘s posts with your engagement on their articles. Remember to link your article or profile so they can return the favour.
My Secret Sauce to Getting more Followers
- At the top of the page type the tag “100 followers” or “100followerschallenge” or “Followforfollow” or “Follow4follow”
- Click on the most recent article at the top of the page.
- Read the article and clap 50x.
- Go into the comments.
- Comment on the article, then who you are, what topics you write about, and follow for follow.
- Sort by the “Most Recent” comment, not by the defaulted “Most Relevant”
- Follow everyone who recently commented, let them know you followed them, and ask them for a follow back.
Feb 4, 2022 I’m currently at 240 followers, and my goal is to hit 1,000 followers by Valentine’s Day ❤
If you found this article helpful then please clap 50x and comment! Let’s grow our dreams together!
