Why I Choose These 5 Tags/Topics for My Medium Story
And how to find high-potential tags to boost your views, reads, and followers.
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3 min readMar 7, 2024
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Wait a minute. This is not another story with a long list of tags.
No!
I won’t give you high-follower and low-competition tags. And I won’t suggest you create a cheat sheet of some sort. This is outdated.
WHY?
If I give you the exact tags to copy-paste, or if you will
- never learn why exactly use these tags
- how to use them, i.e. which ones to choose for your different stories
It’s a process, you need to know the Why's and the How’s. This is the only way you:
- know what you’re doing and
- can become better at it.
The WHY
It’s all about the SEO, but not Google. It’s Medium’s internal SEO.
Tags are the topics. When readers search for content they use keywords, which Medium groups into topics. Then based on who you follow and what you read, you have topic recommendations on the home page of Medium, on your right, under the Staff Picks section:
