5 Reasons Why Medium is Better than Wordpress
Wordpress is a popular platform for hosting your own blog or website free of cost. However, popular doesn’t mean better.
Why is medium better than Wordpress?
- Quality content
Medium has a very good reputation because its authors publish high quality content.
Just by looking at a medium blog you can tell it’s something special.
The authors tend to talk straight to the point. The ideas are actionable.
The lists in the articles or blogs are often numbered (like in this one — 5 reason..)
Exactly this quality is what you want to get used to when you start a blog.
By being on medium.com you can learn from the experts who have thousands of followers.
This is not so easy to do on wordpress.com.
2) Loyal community
The community at medium is a loyal one.
Medium is strong-knit. You can gain true followers who will encourage you and support you.
The sense of community is also stronger at medium.com then with wordpress.com which is to be honest not just for blogging.
3) Easier to Set-up
You create a domain on medium.com. And you start.
It takes 30 seconds to join and less than 5 minutes to publish!
It’s the perfect way to start. Start small and you can really get going!
You publish first blog post. There is no need to pick a theme. No need to establish pages. It’s simple as that.
It’s so easy that any beginner can navigate it.
4) Love Medium if you Love Writing
If you want to focus on writing rather than website-keeping, Medium is your thing.
Here you can write. Write some more. Interact with community.
Then write some more. No website-keeping. You focus on writing.
You can improve your writing while medium takes care of the rest.
This is literally the most stress-free way and yet gives you the right serious start you need in blogging.
To sum up, Meidum lets you write more, sweat less!
5) The Claps & Thank You
Last but not least, wordpress.com does not reward you for the views you get unless you have a wordpress.com subscription. Even if you have a thousand subscribers on wordpress.com, you will not make a dime. Why? Because wordpress.com wants to sell its subscriptions and only then do you cash in on the views you get.
Medium.com on the other hand has the big-hearted gesture and once you hit the 100 subscribers mark, you can join the medium.com program and you can start to earn a bit of reward financially as well. To me this shows the sincerity of the people behind medium.
I feel this a nice gesture on medium.com’s part and for a beginner it is the perfect way to build up their community, have their own subscribers and eventually see the “claps” in monetary form. Many people blog just for fun and that’s perfectly fine. But medium.com lets you take that fun to next level once you hit the 100 subscribers mark. And that’s just a start.
