Yet another article on how to make money from your writing on Medium

The advice I usually see in my feed is aimed at full-time writers, aspiring full-time writers, and other folks who are willing to replace their own preferences with SEO. Such people are bound to make more money, but it’s also possible to increase your earnings without becoming a one-man clickbait content farm. Here are some tips.

Build a back-catalogue

Even if you can’t write that single thousand-dollar article, it’s fairly straightforward (if you publish frequently) to have a stable of hundreds of one-dollar or ten-dollar or fifty-cent articles. Sometimes articles blow up months or years after they were written, as a new audience discovers them. Your old articles will continue to make steady profit, and the more you have, the bigger the profit you get from new fans (who will often discover you from one article and then read a big chunk of your back-catalogue). All these older articles also have a steady chance of being picked up and shared by readers.

Promote outside of Medium

If you rely on internal Medium recommendations, you will need every article to be curated — and curation is a crapshoot. There isn’t much you can do (beyond the basics described by Medium itself) to improve your odds of curation. But, you can still get high view numbers by promoting your articles elsewhere — view numbers that will increase the likelihood that your article will be shown prominently to your existing…