Medium Etiquette Guide For Beginners

A cheat-sheet for best practices

Do you feel like you just walked into a middle school cafeteria and you’re wondering how to find your seat with some friends who can tell you what school (Medium) is like? What’s okay to do and what might put you on the faux pas list?

Medium is a social media platform in which writers can write almost anything they wish and readers read. Often writers are also readers, though readers aren’t always writers. There is an emphasis on the platform being relational. To grow your account, you will want to interact. You will want to interact with grace.

There’s some general platform etiquette that it would help for you to understand before you begin writing and interacting with other writers on the platform. Pull up the proverbial chair and let’s get into it.

I highly recommend you bookmark Sarah’s article. Within this article she has links to her tutorials on writing Titles, SEO, kickers, and submitting to Medium publications. These are great guides, especially for beginners.

To reiterate, when you submit a story (or self-publish one) use all five tags. In order to earn Top Writer status you must use certain topics, such as Writing, Self, and Creativity. These are just examples. I bookmark Casey Botticello’s Top Writer Tag guide for any time I need to reference this. When you earn Top Writer status, it shows up on your profile About Me section. This gives you extra credibility as a writer…

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