3 Key Features Medium Has That Can Seriously Advance Our Writing Careers
Money isn’t everything, but using Medium can help you get more of it faster.
Domain Authority
Whut?! Forget the cash. I’ll take easy discovery all. Day. LONG! (I’m joking, but roll with me for a bit on this.)
Search certain keywords on Google and Medium articles are given priority because it carries a strong domain authority!
In the GIF below, I searched “how to become a millionaire author” with results returning 2 Medium articles on the first and second pages.
There have been numerous searches that I made where a litany of Medium articles returned first on Google’s home results. I’m pretty sure you have possibly experienced the same phenomenon.
This is indicative of Medium’s domain dominance in Google search.
As of May 2022, Alexa rankings are now defunct, but according to a Casey Boticello article from 2019, Medium held the 88th position on Alexa at the time.