Wondering about the requirements to become a publisher at Mediavine? You’ve come to the right place. Mediavine is for big bloggers and smaller publishers alike, placing a premium on original content and website quality. How do we define that, and do you qualify? Let’s break down the Mediavine requirements and application process: Mediavine Requirements For Traffic First among Mediavine requirements is the number most publishers, especially new ones, care about. Unlike other ad management services, we use sessions as our metric of choice, and require 25,000 sessions a month (usually around 30,000 pageviews), according to Google Analytics. We’ve found sessions to be the ideal metric for gauging how an audience interacts with a particular website, as well as its monetization potential. For further reading on the topic, see our recent guide explaining what is RPM and how Mediavine calculates it. Mediavine requirements include much more […]

The enforcement date of the European Union’s GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is coming up in just a few short weeks on May 25, 2018. Many of you may be wondering why the digital advertising industry has been scrambling in recent months, and you’re only hearing about this now. The advertising industry initially believed it would be exempt from the “opt in” requirement of these new regulations due to the legitimate interest clause in GDPR. Ultimately, however, Google and other industry giants determined that in order to take user privacy and the GDPR seriously, we must go further. Long story short: Making sure your digital ads are GDPR compliant will take some work. Before we dive into details, an important caveat: I am not a lawyer. Nothing in this blog post or video should be considered legal advice. If you need legal advice, please […]

Robots.txt, also known as the Robots Exclusion Standard or Robots Exclusion Protocol, is a text file used by websites to tell web crawlers which pages of their sites can be indexed. Translation? Google is actually reading your site via a computer program, or a crawler, which follows each link on a page to figure out which page(s) to crawl next. As it continues to crawl, you can almost visualize how it becomes a web of links. Spiders crawl the web. You get it. But how is Robots.txt important? You may have links to pages such as your login page, admin page, or even more private information on your site without realizing it – data Google is crawling and displaying to searchers. Robots.txt is a boring old plain text file that the crawler downloads before making its way through the rest of your site. After you […]