Follow-for-Follow Craze on Medium — For Easy 100 Followers
For years, Medium has been a great platform for bloggers to showcase their writings and ideas in front of an audience. As Medium has almost 60 million active monthly users, it is one of the very best places to promote the content. The platform is absolutely free to publish stories and actually pays you real money for publishing the ideas. And for that, this brings lots of new writers here every day to produce new content and earn money from it.
Previously, you can earn money from scratch with almost no followers or anything; but after the new policy update, it is mandatory to have a minimum of 100 followers to start monetization. Because of this, the followers’ gaining mania has started.
From the last few months, I have seen the new follow-for-follow craze on Medium. Most of the new users/writers trying to achieve the 100 followers benchmark to enroll in the Medium Partners Program(MPP) and monetize their blog posts. They even upload posts encouraging other users to do the same.
Although the idea is pretty good in the short term; in the long run, this approach can backfire on you.
Why I think the idea is dull
I have seen many new creators who do not even upload any blogs have 100s of followers. As said before the idea is good; but is that really helping besides gaining a 100 follower mark? I do not think so.
Most people who are in the follow-for-follow game are doing that because they also want the same, growing followers. They are even chanting on their blogs — let’s help each other, follow each other to get 100 followers, just like selling craft in a market. They do not care about the content. Those followers will just make the profile look cool, but without any real engagement with the content, they are of no use. They are just ghost followers. It is like having 1000s of subscribers on YouTube with only 200–300 views.
Instead, what I suggest
Engage with other creators, read their blogs (to improve your own writing style), comment on their posts. Look for building relationships with other writers. That will be more beneficial and genuine. Not only this will increase followers, but it will also boost engagement with the content.
Also, focus on improving. Elevate the quality of writing, make it more presentable to the readers. Build your own style of writing. Aim for sharing knowledge and quality content instead of gaining followers and earning money. Provide value, money will automatically follow.
I want to encourage everyone reading this blog to get out of the Rat race which is currently going on here and focus on adding value. But still, if you want to try you can, there is no fault in trying out new stuff.
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