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103 Articles and Just a few Cents
The Medium Algorithm Won’t Push My Work, But I am Still Here! And Maybe I found a Solution.
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My journey on Medium started in August 2021 right after my journey with Indian Air Force ended. I was looking for hobbies, something to keep myself busy. And then came this platform to the rescue…
But it took months to get the hang of writing. To be honest, even now, I am still learning, and the struggle is real.
Out of the 100+ articles that I have written, majority of them just floated away in silence. Bunch of them got good reads. Some even got ranked first in Google search. But despite all that, I have earned only a few cents here and there.
The biggest mystery personally for me has been that people are reading my work, and publications like Illumination and Write a Catalyst are publishing it on a daily basis and yet my earnings are vanishing into thin air.
Anyways, In this journey of writing more than 100 articles there are a few learnings that I wish to highlight.
- Starting from the most recent realization. First, read if you want to be read. You cannot expect people to read and clap for your work when you don’t clap for…
