SEO for Medium, Part II
Does it work? A year later, I tell you: yes
Last year, I wrote this article for the Medium Partnership Program as an experiment. I was trying to see if Google would pick up my article, and if I could rank it.
Here’s the article again, if you missed it:
Now, as I explained inside that article, there isn’t a lot of searches for the keyword phrase “Medium is like a social media platform” for SEO purposes.
A year later, and I rank #2. This is pretty good, I believe, because Google updated itself to drive traffic away from the websites as a search engine, and it now forces everyone to read its AI as the “first result.” This AI is mostly generated using the results of the search.
Hello, class action lawsuit and copyright infringement lawsuits.
But I digress.
Fortunately for me, there isn’t an AI response. Most likely due to the volume of searches per month.
I also still get traffic to this article, one year later:
