3 Ways to Make Use Of External Views

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Unless Medium starts compensating external views (through ads, for example), they’re useless, right?

Wrong!

Here are 3 ways to make use of external views on Medium.

1. Direct money

The first option is trying to turn those external views directly into money. The way you’d do that is with referrals.

External readers are most likely not Medium members. They’ve found your story through Google search or from promotion via social media and other outlets.

That presents a chance. With a well-put call-to-action at the end of your posts (or even throughout the text body), you could turn external readers into new Medium members with your referral link. This way, you’ll be compensated for some external views.

I’ve recently shown how I revised my referral link to attract more members. This led to an increase in referral sign-ups. Over 75 in 2 months.

Referrals are a great way to make use of external views.

2. Redirecting traffic

Another way to make use of external views on Medium is redirection. What do I mean by that? There are a couple of ways to go about it.

1. You could (sort of) redirect traffic to another version…