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There’s No Secret to Going Viral on Medium
But there are things you can do to improve your chances
I’ve just had an article go viral (well, viral for me). 3k views, nearly $200 earnings from that one article in less than a month.
Here’s the article:
Notice I have no problem sharing it (unlike some “I’ve had a hit and you can too” articles that I have read).
Feel free to reverse engineer my article to your heart’s content.
The reason for my transparency is that I don’t think there is a “secret” to going viral. So even if you managed to distill the essence of my article then recreated it… there’s no guarantee that a clone of it would fly.
And as for the processes I went through to write it?
Well, that’s the whole point of this article. I’m happy to share my checklist of basics and advice on how to write “a hit” — this is exactly what I did, and what I do all the time on here…
