Every day at Mediavine, our favorite thing is to hear how blogging changes lives.  Whether it’s learning new skills that can shape your career or earning a full-time income from things like sponsored work and Mediavine ad revenue, being a publisher is a pretty awesome job.  That’s why we loved hearing how our publisher Betsy Eves of JavaCupcake has been teaching others what she has learned about blogging.  Betsy currently works at Operation Gratitude as the Wounded Hero & Caregiver Program Director, but she also teaches blogging classes to the military community through her work at the Dog Tag Inc. Fellowship Program and the Elizabeth Dole Foundation Military and Caregiver Fellows.  She asked us to contribute by taking part in a recent Blogging 101 webinar and an upcoming workshop in Washington, D.C. (More on these below!) We in turn asked Betsy to come on the Mediavine […]

The following post was written by Peter Green, owner and CTO of Agathon, a company that specializes in building and hosting web applications. You can craft the most amazing post ever, but your audience reach will be crippled if your site loads slowly. That’s why we at Agathon offered site “health checks” as a perk to Mediavine publishers who attended the 2018 Mediavine Publisher’s Conference. We’ve now performed 100+ checks at the conference and over Google Meet before and after, and have seen that many sites suffer from the same pattern of fixable(!) problems. The great news is that Mediavine publishers scored much better than we usually see, but there was also room for improvement. Who doesn’t like improvement? Since we can’t do a site health assessment for everyone reading this post, let’s talk about the three most common problems so that you can ensure […]

There’s no question that working from home has advantages. We wear our pajama pants to virtual meetings, make our own hours and can do a load of laundry in the middle of the work day.  But if you’re anything like the Mediavine team, it can also come with a big challenge: SEPARATION of job (church) and home (state).  One of the best strategies we rely on to maintain sanity is organization, and for that, we’re fortunate to have specialist Sara Volk. She’s our Office Manager, aka project manager, keeper of the spreadsheets, birthdays, addresses, travel plans, meeting times and a million other things that we don’t even know about because she’s GOT them.  We’re so in awe of her strategies and skills that we asked her to put her best tips in one place, so we could pass them on to you guys.  Without further […]

Choosing a blogging platform is one of the most fundamental decisions a publisher must make, which means switching platforms is a pretty big deal. So when Mediavine publisher/Computer Scientist Laurence Norah of the gorgeous travel blog Finding The Universe volunteered to document his site migration from Blogger to WordPress for us, we jumped at the opportunity to share this wealth of knowledge on our blog. This is part 1 of our 3-part blogger platform migration series, written as a collaboration between Laurence and the Mediavine Platform Engineering team.  Time to switch? Laurence: At the end of 2017, after nearly seven years of blogging on Google’s Blogger platform, I made the decision to migrate to WordPress. I was frustrated by how hard it was to customize my blog, the glacial nature of the Blogger team to implement essential features like https, and the general feeling that despite […]