Medium “SEO” tag statistics
How busy the SEO tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is low, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 380 stories from the last 14.1 days
Busier than 15% of 73 tracked tags
71% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 27 stories a day, SEO is busier than 15% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (516 followers per daily story) is higher than 3% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
79% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 71% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 16% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish SEO stories
| Publication | Followers | SEO stories (last 14.1d) |
|---|---|---|
| MobileByteSensei | 10 | 7 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 5 |
| AEO Soup | 196 | 4 |
| Stacker News | 6 | 4 |
| Marketing in the Age of Digital | 942 | 2 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 2 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 2 |
| Coding Nexus | 20K | 1 |
| CodeX | 37K | 1 |
| First Dollar | 117 | 1 |
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FAQ
- How many stories are published in the SEO tag on Medium?
- About 27 per day (188 per week), based on 380 stories published in the 14.1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 295,939 stories in total.
- Is the SEO tag competitive?
- Competition is low: it is busier than 15% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 516 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in SEO?
- 71% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 79% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.