Pardon My Ignorance But I Have a Few Questions About Medium Things

Things that really confuse me.

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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…