Thank you for sharing experience. Great to have some views even they are from external sources. Many writers get more external views than internal ones. Apart from Google, one of the sources is Flipboard as shown in your states. I discovered Flipboard when I established Illumination and automated to replicate the links of our stories which bring many new readers. It still does it. Here is the link to the magazine.

https://flipboard.com/@digitalmehmet/illumination-on-medium-hmov53ldz

You can also create your own magazine specifically linking your own stories.