Publish on Medium

medium.comGlobalAI-citableMetrics updated 2026-06-08
General news coverage for a global readership.
81A
VFCore Score
94
Domain rating
95
Domain authority
21M
Monthly traffic

Short answer

Medium publishes general news for a global readership, with a domain rating of 94 and about 21M monthly visitors. A placement runs as an editorial article with a nofollow link and carries no sponsored label, typically live in 1 business day.

What you get

  • One published editorial article on medium.com
  • A nofollow link
  • Live URL and a dated screenshot in your case
  • Indexed by Google
  • Readable by AI answer engines

Specification

Format
Article
Tier
Tier 1
Region
Global
Link type
Nofollow
Links allowed
1
Sponsored label
No label
Google indexing
Indexed
AI answer engines
Can cite it
Permanence
permanent
Writing
Included, or send your own

SEO authority and reach

How easily Medium ranks on Google and how much of the web points at it. Sources: Moz, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Tranco.

95
Domain authority

Moz, 0 to 100

98
Authority score

SEMrush, 0 to 100

21M
Organic visits / mo

From Google search

16.7M
Ranking keywords

Top 100 positions

7.7B
Backlinks

Links pointing in

1.6M
Referring domains

Unique linking sites

Citable by AI answer engines

Medium lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews read its pages, so an article here can be surfaced and cited when someone asks an assistant about you.

Read from the outlet’s robots.txt.

Where it lives

About Medium

Medium (medium.com) covers general news for a global readership. It reaches roughly 21M visitors a month, and ranks for 17M search keywords. On authority it has a domain rating of 94, a domain authority of 95 and links from about 1.6M other websites. Its robots.txt lets the AI answer engines in, so an article here can be read and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews. Every placement is quoted per case and paid into escrow; the money is released only when the live URL and a dated screenshot are posted into your case.

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