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Mediums Most Underused Benefit
How friend links make you money, but everyone doesn’t use it.
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Friend links are an amazing feature of the partnership program. It’s also the main reason why anyone would want to purchase or upgrade to the friend of medium subscription.
It is through friend links that you would earn four times the amount of earnings for engagement on their articles. And as a bonus, readers who are not members of Medium will still earn you money for engagement in your articles.
Why don’t we see many people using friend links on Medium? So far I have come across three reasons that people refuse to use friend links on Medium. Misinformation, misunderstandings, and lack of discussion.
Lack of discussion.
As you can see below, Medium does advertise it but doesn’t go into detail of what it means. As an individual, you would have to do your due diligence to research into what you’re actually getting and how things work.
