Make Some Money By Posting Old Blog Posts to Medium

I stumbled upon a little trick to help myself earn a tiny bit more income on the side: Medium. Medium.com is a blog publishing site where anyone who has an account (which is free) can write content and get paid.

The way you get paid is to write good content and then readers will “clap” for you to bump up your ranking. Each time someone “claps” for your post, you get paid a little bit of money (like a few pennies).

According to my taxes this year, I was paid about $500 last year for my articles and I wasn’t even posting anything at all. That was from the articles I had uploaded in 2018!

So I had a thought: what about all those blog posts I wrote on that old WordPress site (this one) all those years ago? I wondered if Medium would import those old blog posts and keep the actual date they were written in place.

Well… it does.

I experimented with my original blog post “Tolkien’s 10 Tips for Writers”, a blog post that has been ripped off on many other websites including EssayMama who published it in 2014 (even though it was written by YOURS TRULY in 2012). They credit this blog, but it is ripped completely from my original post without permission. What do you expect from a website that writes original essays for paying clients who don’t want to do their own work?