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Medium Writing vs. Blog Writing

It’s the old “Cowboys dance with the farmer’s daughters” question.

Photo by Raychel Sanner on Unsplash

Territory folk

Yes, they should get along like Oklahomans, but there are distinct choices of sides going on here, too.

With apologies to the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein and their first musical, written in 1943.

Just this week, I read a Medium article that mentioned that blogs were dead. Again.

And another claimed that the death of blogs was completely exaggerated.

I read in one place that Medium was an important part of the cycle of life for a creator’s creations, and there was no place finer to build a mailing list.

I, myself, began to treat the subject here, on Medium concerning the read numbers of my forgotten blogs, which had continued on their own, while all my attention was devoted to Medium.

To make matters even worse, I looked at the comparison even deeper today, at least dealing with my writing, and I say that because I know there will be differences between mine and everyone else’s, especially those who can write well.

Under the ‘scope.

I received an email this morning from Medium, regarding the fact that last week my writings Had received 319 reads, and it told me how many people had honored me by following my stuff and how many had subscribed.

That’s when I looked a bit closer. Last week on Medium, I received those 319 reads across about 960 stories, divided by my followers who numbered 4.9 K.

I am comparing these figures to an old blog of mine which is about a topic that you might not think was terribly exciting.

It has zero subscribers or followers because I was not sophisticated to that point yet. The stories and blog entries were haphazard and numbered around 418 total entries.

Look both ways in the traffic.

On the most recent day of the graph for that blog, it received 298 reads, as compared to some daily Medium reads of single digits, and 319 for its entire week.

The chart of my blog showed me that the one week there had rendered 7739 reads of 418 stories as compared to 960 stories on my Medium site.

In fact, the traffic was such that I applied for and was accepted to an advertising platform to work along with my Amazon Associates platform, and I am able to compare in a real-time manner, the money each is making.

Theoretically, there could be longer mailing lists, too.

So, I am not one who thinks that blogs are passe’. Now I have discovered they are a valuable tool in my journalistic arsenal, and can be used symbiotically to improve my overall results.

Last words.

I love Medium. You know I love Medium.

I also have Substack sites and other blogs.

The more I can diversify, the more eyeballs I get on my writing. And that’s what I really love the most!

Thank you so much for reading! And please don’t forget if you click the little envelope icon, it will turn solid green, the skies will open, the sun will shine on you, birds will sing, and you will have good luck in life.

Don’s a keen observer and prolific reporter of truth, common sense, humor, & life. He’s a WRITER|HUMORIST, sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek. He lives in Nashville, TN. He publishes somewhere every weekday morning. Click HERE, and have his new stories emailed directly to you, instead of having to beat the bushes for them.

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