How To Go Viral On Medium

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I’ve had around 5–6 posts go viral on Medium and today I’d like to break down exactly how you can also.

Get yourself a pen and paper — or even better, just use the highlighter tool on this article, it works well.

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The Harsh Truth

Let me start on a negative point, but you can easily flip this into a positive depending on your mindset.

You are unlikely to go viral on Medium if you post 1–3 times per week.

This may be a shock to you because quality over quantity right?

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Let’s break this down.

For this example, I will use the higher echelon of this sporadic posting schedule example (which won’t work for most people).

Let say you post 3x per week, that is 12 times per month.