The Power of Tagging on Medium
Tagging is a key tactic for your visibility on Medium, yet some of its aspects are often neglected.
Unless you are directly featured by Medium, tagging is a key tactic to let the Medium algorithm channel your stories to the readers.
For your visibility on this platform, proper tagging is essential and can be non-obvious.
Tagging your stories
The distinction between topics and tags is not documented on Medium. Topics and tags are distinct things (just note the difference between the page of a topic and the page of the corresponding tag), but at the same time they are related.
Stories in the Art topic are all likely to have the Art tag, for example. So, the way you tag your story is directly related to the topic you are addressing and in which your story will hopefully appear.
Medium allows up to 5 tags per story. Using fewer tags means to take advantage of fewer opportunities.
As a reader, you explicitly tell Medium which are your interests, by selecting certain topics. Medium digest and home page are in part based on this customization, for all users. So, addressing specific topics, as a writer, can make a difference.
