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How to Increase Reading Time On Your Medium Stories
1 min readApr 1, 2022
This is something we all want to know, right?
Don’t get too hyped, though. I don’t have a secret formula. Because there is none.
Nevertheless, here are a couple of tricks to help with increasing the reading time on your posts. They have helped me, at least.
- First and very obvious is the inserting of media content into your stories. The convenient choice number 1 is images. Those are easy to find online, can fit every post, and usually increase reading time a little.
- Secondly, you can use GIFs similarly to images. I wouldn’t overdo it, but 1 or two are nice.
- Thirdly, use CTAs (call-to-actions) within your posts, like “read till the end for this”. This is a trick YouTubers use to keep viewers on the video longer. It works for articles too.
