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If you want to grow on Medium, don't comment on other people's posts

There are far faster ways to get the results you want

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Tari Ibaba
February 12, 2025

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If you want to grow on Medium, don’t comment on other people’s posts

Stop wasting your time commenting on other people’s articles to grow on Medium. There are far faster ways to get the results you want.

Like I have almost 70K in my other account (@tariibaba) and I just roll my eyes when I see people try to do this on my articles.

I get it, you’re trying to make your account more visible. But it doesn’t even work.

If you want to comment, do so because you really have something of value to say and add to the conversation.

Don’t do it to grow, otherwise you’re only wasting your energy for very little reward at the end.

You’re much better off doing these instead to rapidly grow your account.

Stop writing headlines like everybody else

Cliché headlines fail.

Boring headlines fail.

You’re competing with all the other articles on their feed — and everything else they could be doing with their time.

Your headline needs to grab attention and pique interest.

And no it doesn’t need to “solve a problem” like some people say.

It just needs to be interesting and create curiosity.

Look at this:

4 words and an emoji was all it took.

This ended up doing far better than the previous title, “Shadow PC saves you thousands of dollars on a new PC”.

The original headline solved a problem but that didn’t matter — it wasn’t as interesting.

It didn’t make them curious.

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Thanks for taking the time to read today’s issue.

Kind regards,
Tari Ibaba