3 Quick Tips To Make Your Medium Stories SEO-friendly (And Grow That Email List Faster)
External views are incredible on Medium.
Although they’re often neglected for not being eligible for partner program earnings, they are an excellent way to grow your audience. More eyes on your writing mean more email list signups and people in the funnel to your digital products.
Here are three quick optimizations so your stories get found better:
Fill out the SEO Title and Description
The SEO Title and Description will replace your original headline and subheadline on Google’s result page.
You’ll find these via “Story settings” in the editor under SEO settings. Define a custom title and make sure it’s something people would search for. The description will appear directly under the title on the search results page, so you want to use keywords that describe your content well and make it captivating, so potential readers click through to your story.
Defining these tags is paramount to getting your story displayed right on search engine results pages.
Write an alt text for your images
The alt text will tell Google what your image contains and it will also be read by screen…
