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To Get More Views and Reads Tweak 3 Things With Your Writing 👍🏽
These are why people don’t read your writing as much
Views => Reads => Engagement => Earnings
If you’ve been writing and publishing (either with a publication or through self-publishing), you’ve probably asked yourself, “Why am I not getting more views and reads?” Right? No doubt many of us have asked ourselves this same question. I know I have.
You see other writers’ posts catching fire with a ton of engagement, which means they’re getting lots of reads and earning a decent income. And you wonder what’s their secret because most of your posts grow cold too fast.
And you may have seen many recent stories from writers expressing concern over low views, reads, and earnings. The consensus seems to be that low engagement and earnings are a result of the algorithm needing to be tweaked again. Or some are saying that Medium is cutting writers’ earnings for no good reason at all.
I don’t believe that. And as far as the algorithm goes, it’s likely designed to favor stories getting traction on the platform. So, if you write a story and it doesn’t draw people’s attention and engagement, then no it will not gain much traction. And this means it will likely not be distributed very…