Pardon My Ignorance But I Have a Few Questions About Medium Things
Things that really confuse me.
2 min readJan 18, 2022
I am still fairly new to Medium.
It is not that I haven’t tried to find answers to these questions. I have read almost everything out there. But I still have a few nagging queries.
Can anyone out there shed some light?
These are the questions that keep me, and maybe others awake a night.
- Is there any benefit from not “metering” our stories?
- Is there any benefit from “metering” some of our stories and not others?
- What factors would determine if we should decide to not “meter” a story?
- What factors determine that a story should be “metered?”
- Can a “non-metered” yet popular story still earn money?
- What constraints are put on us when our stories are “metered?” Is there anything that we can not do?
- Are our “non-metered” stories rated by the number of hits on Google?
- Do the number of hits on Google for a ““non-metered” story figure into our ranking on the Medium Algorithm?
- Do these Google hits matter?
- Speaking of the Medium Algorithm, is it true we are…