3 Ways Your Medium Comments Can Earn You Money

Your Medium comments aren’t worthless, they’re actually tremendously valuable

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I’ve seen a few stories recently about how Medium should be compensating us when people read our comments on other writer’s stories. I’m not opposed to the idea — but I think it overlooks the fact that we already can earn money from our comments.

Now — I know we can’t earn money directly from our comments. We all know that.

But — we do earn money indirectly from the comments we make on other writer’s stories. I’ve seen this myself from my own comments.

Let me show you 3 ways your Medium comments can earn you money.

Comments Increase the Visibility of Your Profile

For example, I left a quality comment on one of Tim Denning’s stories. Notice the views from just this one comment.

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I’ve left over 100 comments since getting started on Medium at the beginning of July. This comment alone has been viewed 148 times.