博客与个人写作2019medium.com
在 Medium 上发布文章:那些官方没说明白的数据
Publishing on Medium, with the stats they don't make obvious
导读
Kent Beck 用自己 Medium 后台的数据,讲平台没明说的一些机制:付费墙勾选框默认开启会限制读者范围、来自 Hacker News 的流量高度集中在少数爆款文章上、Medium 的收益和账号运营方式都不透明。对写作者来说,这篇值得读,因为它把“发出去”背后的默认设置和分发逻辑摆到明面上,帮你决定文章该放在哪、给谁看。
可以直接用的写作要点
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发布前先检查平台的默认选项:Medium 的付费墙勾选框默认勾选,会让没付费的读者看不到你的文章;想扩大读者面就手动取消。
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别把某个平台当唯一阵地:可以把自有博客作为主站,再同步到 Medium 等平台获取额外读者,把后者当成 Twitter、HN 那样的分发渠道。
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流量分布是长尾而非平均:少数文章吃掉大部分阅读量,所以持续多发、接受大多数文章安静,比押注单篇更实际。
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按读者群拆分账号或出版物:创作类写作和编程教程的受众几乎不重叠,混在一起会互相稀释。
HN 评论精选
平台默认开启的付费墙勾选框常被误认为算法,作者应主动取消以扩大读者范围。
每次发布文章时,平台都会给出一个默认勾选的选项,意思是“没在 Medium 付费的人可能看不到这篇文章”。因为我的目标是让文章尽可能被更多人看到,所以我每次都手动取消勾选。之前我还以为是算法决定的,没想到其实是作者的(默认)选择。
mellosouls查看英文原文
Every time I publish a post I’m offered a check box, checked by default, that means, “People who haven’t paid Medium may not be able to see this.” Since my goal is to make my writing as widely available as possible, I always uncheck this box. Hmmmm, didn't realise that was the author's choice (default tbf). I'd assumed some sort of algorithm. Interesting. Kudos for keeping it free, anyway.
把 Medium 当分发渠道而非主站,自有博客加同步发布。
作者可以搬到新的博客站点,同时把文章克隆一份到 Medium,以保留那 18% 的读者。把 Medium 当成 Twitter、Facebook、HN 那样的渠道之一,而不是唯一来源。缺点是作者工作量更大,也许有工具能自动同步到 Medium。
amdelamar查看英文原文
The author could move to a new blogsite and clone articles to Medium to keep that 18% audience. Treat it more like Twitter/FB/HN instead of the only source. This has the drawback of more work for the author though. Perhaps there are tools that auto-publish to Medium for you.
Medium 的收益、出版物授权和账号分隔机制都不透明,多题材作者尤其难管理。
我到现在也没搞懂 Medium 的发布机制。我最火的一篇有 1.5 万阅读,因为没勾那个选项,一分钱没拿到;另外两篇(1 万和 5 千阅读)的收入却差很多(我知道这取决于谁在读,但很难预估)。有人邀请我发到他们的出版物时,我也不清楚是不是排他。我还找不到简单办法把账号分开(我既写创意非虚构、哲学和诗,也写编程教程,受众几乎不重叠),只能发到不同的出版物里。总的来说我喜欢 Medium 的模式,但很难摸清最佳用法。
llamataboot查看英文原文
I'm still lost with medium publishing. * Did not check box for my most widely read article that had 15k views, so did not get any money. Clicked link for two other articles (10k and 5k reads), yet $$ for each is super different (I know it depends on /who/ reads, but hard to get a sense of what to expect) * Still don't exactly know what it means when someone asks me to publish to their publication. Is it exclusive? I know it is distributed. * Still can't figure out an easy way to separate out accounts (I write creative non-fiction and philosophy and poetry and I also write programming tutorials - not much overlap between the audiences) other than publishing into different publications. In general I like the Medium model, I like being there as a reader and a writer, but it is hard to figure out the best way to use it.
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