Member-only story
Not That Bright
Referring to myself
I don’t know what y’all would term viral on this platform. Is it 1k — or — 2k — or 3k views? Whatever…I have a story with over 3k and earnings of a grand total of (drum roll) $1.21. I kid you not. The story has generated 56 internal views — and 3000 from other sources. As you see above, there’s no end in sight! Like the energizer bunny, it just keeps going — and going — and going.
Curious to find out how this all happened, I Googled the term “Long Dong Silver,” whose name is in the title. And guess what. It’s the first reference on page 1. Suddenly, I knew where all the views were coming from.
The story itself was originally published in one of the zillion Medium pubs that is not mine. Obviously, the appearance in that publication is not what drove all the traffic. It was Medium’s Google SEO.
This story has been generating steady traffic for months. And is that traffic going to one of my publications? No! It’s benefitting somebody else’s.
Now, if I didn’t have a pub of my own, that would make sense. But having one about escorts, it suddenly occurred to me that I was missing an opportunity to expose my very own work. What the fuck was I thinking?