Design Your Medium About Page for Long Term Growth (2026 Beginner Tutorial)

Описание: Your About page on Medium is one of the most important pages on your Medium profile.

In this tutorial, I show you how to design your Medium About page so it builds trust, supports search, and works as a long term asset.

You'll learn how to structure your About page, what to include and what to skip, how ex Medium employees dis it, how Google reads your About page, and how to use links, lists, and calls to action the right way.

This is a beginner friendly guide for writers who want their Medium profile to work for them over time.

*this is a sneak peak into one of my course videos. As I'm updating the whole course, I'm now sharing this with anyone to capitalize on it for FREE. Buster and Arielle are not Medium employees anymore. The rest of the insights still stays true in 2026.

Table of Contents:
00:00 Why your About page matters
01:00 How the Medium About page works today
04:10 Google Knowledge Panels and search visibility
06:00 How to structure your About page
08:20 Professional vs personal balance
10:10 What to link and why
12:00 Calls to action that make sense on Medium
14:30 Pinning your About page to your profile
16:00 Lists and playlists on Medium
18:40 Using lists to increase reading time
21:30 Lists as standalone pages
24:00 Promoting stories with friend links
27:30 Using other platforms to amplify Medium
31:30 Final About page and profile checklist

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