Here are the reasons how Medium.com become a graveyard for corporate bloggers and even personal bloggers too
Medium was supposed to save us from traditional blogging and AI chatbots. Medium had a clean design. Beautiful typography. No clutter. No Comic Sans. Just a place for real blog writing to shine.
And for a little while, it did. You could post a piece of article, go semi-viral, and relax in the sweet glow of claps and likes. People actually commented. Medium even paid some writers. It felt like blogging had a second act.
But then the walls crept in. First came the paywalls. Then the “members-only” nudges. Then came the weird algorithmic favoritism. Suddenly, it wasn’t about great writing – it was about writing that fit the Medium mold: buzzy, clean, safe, and oh-so-shareable.
Even worse? It became a graveyard for corporate blogs pretending to be thought leaders.
And the creators (personal bloggers)? They realized they were just tenants. One day your post is viral; the next, it’s hidden behind a paywall you didn’t ask for. Monetization flipped. Distribution dried up. Trust evaporated.
Now, most Medium blogs have noindex on their posts, thus Google and Bing can’t index helpful content anymore. By end of 2025 Medium.com lost trust from both their corporate bloggers as well as personal bloggers. Medium blogs are no more reliable, effective for marketing or engagement. Moreover, Google does not ranks Medium posts and articles anymore on page one.
Medium didn’t kill blogging but it taught us a valuable lesson: don’t build your house on rented land.
Lots of content creators who once used Medium.com as their home for blogging swtiched to better alternatives that give exposure to their articles and post. Many started their self-hosted WordPress blogs on a custom domain name. Self-hosted blogs and sites are still ranking high in Google search and get 2x to 3x more traffic than Medium blogs and even get citations on Google Gemini, Chatgpt and on other AI chatbots.
The major advantage from switching away from Medium is no more paywall, no more restrictions on writing articles and no more moderating of the content. It gives you full ownership of your space. Content creators are free to write on any topic specifically if the host their blog and sites with The-Online.com – the free speech web host which is a solid alternative to Medium blog. No content takedown, No algorithmic favoritism or penalty from moderators. No content hiding.
And how the money comes in? Just write good content that users like and is helpful and add Google Adsense or Mediavine like ad networks that place advertisements on your own blog and pay approximately $5 to $15+ per 1000 ad impressions. Many bloggers and content creators get easily 5K ad impressions a day which converts into a minimum $25 a day and $750 a month from Adsense earning. Swtich to Mediavine as it pays more once your blog gets more traffic. Search engines still love helpful content, AI chatbots also love to cite such content.
Blogging is no longer a single thing. It’s an ecosystem. A multiverse. A vibe. And if you still care about putting words into the world on your terms then yeah, blogging isn’t dead. It’s just gotten weirder, smarter, messier, and more essential in 2026 and beyond.
