Medium Story Formatting
How to Properly Use Links in Your Medium Stories
The definitive guide to links; affiliate and otherwise
Using links in your Medium stories can be a great way to support your ideas, tag other writers and their stories, promote a cause or provide additional perspective.
There are two general varieties of links; internal and external.
Internal links
These are used to tag other Medium members by using the @ symbol and their profile name. Using a tag in your story alerts the other Medium member (as long as they have notifications turned on) and provides a hyperlink directly to that person’s profile embedded in your story.
Other internal links are to other peoples’ stories or to publications within the Medium universe. You can choose to link to a story or publication by highlighting a word or words and clicking on the interwoven chain in the menu bar:
You can also insert a web address to a Medium story. Once you paste it into the Medium editor like this:
