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How to Get Thousands of Views on Your Articles?

Hmmm, fuck if I know. But eventually, I’m gonna find out.

Ryan J
2 min readSep 7, 2021
Photo by [ik] @invadingkingdom on Unsplash

Every day I see writers of all genres celebrating their wins online.

They post about how much money they’ve earned from a single article. How their piece got accepted into a major publication. How they gained thousands of followers and views on their work.

And while it’s great to see fellow artists making progress towards their goals, I’d be lying if I said i didn’t feel a teeny tiny bit of writer envy.

Why can’t my articles make hundreds of dollars?
Why are my pieces not accepted into major publications?
How the hell do they get thousands of views on their articles?

Hmmm, fuck if I know.

Of course, like many others, I have read all the ‘How to’ advice pieces provided by those at the top. I’ve tried the whole writing something new everyday thing, adding SEO friendly keywords to my writing, sharing my work across multiple platforms and engaging with other writers/readers in the hope of growing an audience, but still, I fall short.

It’s as though I’m missing something. Like there is an important piece of information I’ve skipped over or an action I’m failing to perform. At times it can all become very frustrating. But…

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Ryan J
Ryan J

Written by Ryan J

Writer from Northern Ireland 🍀 | Based in Sydney 🦘 | Exploring life, ideas, and stories worth telling.

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