Do You Want to Learn How to Cheat the Curation Algorithm?
By using a pseudo-viral story as case-study
Do you remember those days back in school when you had a difficult test, and you wished you could sneak in the teacher’s office and change your responses? I have a strange feeling of familiarity regarding that life phase whenever my story is chosen for distribution after making changes to the initially published piece. And you know why? Because it feels like cheating on your test, only this time nobody cares if they catch you.
If you want to learn how to “fix” your stories after publishing them, this story will walk you through some tricks I have experimented with by myself. So let’s get to the point with a practical example:
Yes. It’s a sex story, and it was pretty lucrative, as you can see. I’m not here to brag, but the earnings support my case. Hence I choose to let the amount visible. This is, in fact, the second story on sex that I have written within two weeks after my first one took off and became what some would call viral.
In my greediness — and yeah, I’m not hiding here because we’re all a bit greedy, I was hoping I could…
