“ Nobody besides me is likely to tell you that views matter as much as claps.”

Eh…

This heavily depends on topic.

My most viewed posts where the views come primarily outside of Medium and do well on Google have not been my most profitable — not even close.

The sweet spot has to be topics that will do well on Google and Medium and are topics where the audience is inclined to clap.

As much as I like writing about film, and tv, movies and the like, people on Medium don’t clap for those articles even though they do well with views inside and outside Medium.

Now writing about writing is interesting because as long as you’re not writing about Medium and get your SEO right those can prove to be big articles for you inside and outside the paywall.

I am curious to know what your suggestions are for the right topics to hit the curation combos + views + claps that will work with the MPP.

Also, I’ve been doubled and tripled curated a lot and it hasn’t worked so well for me in ways of views/claps and earnings.

Go figure.