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A friend has a blog -- about the history of labor & work -- that he often cross-posts to Medium. He wrote an article on his blog. A few dozen people read it ov
by freddie_mercury 7y ago
A friend has a blog -- about the history of labor & work -- that he often cross-posts to Medium.
He wrote an article on his blog. A few dozen people read it over the next week -- basically all friends of his. He cross-posted it to Medium and he had 30,000 reads within the first 24 hours.
Looking at the stats on my own Medium posts how much comes via Medium and how much is external varies. On a story with 3,000 readers (which is the most I've ever had), about 10% come from Medium. Most of what I post ends up having 20-30 readers and about 50% come via Medium.
- mathnmusic 7y agoCould these 30,000 reads be from bots/crawlers? Medium has all the incentives to boost up the number of reads, don't they? I'd wanna measure engagement metrics outside their domain instead.
- rchaud 7y agoYeah, I'd be interested in knowing this too. Seems unlikely that a niche topic would generate so many human views in a short period of time. I do CMS management for a national nonprofit website with a few million hits each month, and 30k views for a single article with no promotion strategy seems...unlikely. Our Google Analytics filters out bots and crawlers, which do significantly inflate pageview stats.
- freddie_mercury 7y agoThat particular article wasn't a niche though, it was about the so-called Millennial work ethic, Hannah Arendt's notion of labor vs work, "bullshit jobs", and so on.