The One Thing You Forget When Writing On Medium

Doing this will get you more views

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I know it’s a bit hidden.

You have to search for it each time you write an article.

What do am I talking about?

The little thing you forget — I know because I do it myself and I am not that special — to set when you publish.

The SEO settings.

Because you click away, let me show you this screenshot of my most viewed and read article:

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Nothing crazy but it got many more views than any of my other articles.

So I wondered why. I mean, Notion is a popular topic but I cover other popular topics.

Then I went to the stats for this article and I saw this:

Screenshot by the author

Yep, almost all the views come from Google.

Sweet.

So how can you do the same (and better!).