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Advertising
Mediavine Publishers Grow Exponentially AFTER Joining. Here’s Why.
Back to Blog • If you’re already one of our publishers, or are familiar with us, you probably know that 50,000 sessions over the last 30 days is one of the primary Mediavine requirements. We’ve found that reaching this magic number is a key indicator of when you should put ads on your site, and…
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Advertising
Mediavine Requirements: Why Our Application Process Yields the Best Results
Back to Blog • 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…
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Go for Teal
Increase Font Size, and Increase SEO & RPM Along With It
Back to Blog • Post updated August 2021 One of the simplest, fastest, and most effective tweaks you can make to simultaneously improve your website’s user experience, SEO and RPM may surprise you: Increase your font size. We say it’s quick because it should require one easy change to your theme’s settings page, or a…
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Advertising
Mediavine Display Adhesion: Introducing a New and Improved Ad Experience
Back to Blog • As part of the new and improved ad experiences we touched on in our Mediavine 2019 road map, we’re excited to announce the launch of our new display adhesion design! As part of the new and improved ad experiences we touched on in our Mediavine 2019 road map, we’re excited to…
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SEO
SEO and Ads: Fact vs. Fiction and How Mediavine Optimizes Both Together
Back to Blog • When you think of SEO, you generally don’t think of ads. With good reason. By definition, advertising runs counter to the goals of optimizing for SEO, a process which relies on a focus on your content and user experience. However, as an ad management company that started as an SEO marketing…
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Go for Teal
In-Content Ad Settings: Choose Wisely For Improved RPM and UX
Back to Blog • Ever since we launched our new in-content ad logic as a Coalition for Better Ads partner, you’ve probably noticed a number of new additions to your Dashboard. Thanks to the in-content ad logic, Mediavine publishers have the ability to change ad density, the spacing between ads, and limits to the overall…
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Advertising
Rethinking the Sidebar: Less is More For RPM & UX Alike
Back to Blog • The sidebar is always one of the most obsessed-over components of web publishing, but as with everything else in the blogging world, times are changing. Ten years ago, the original iPhone had just been released. In 2018, desktop traffic is hard to come by. Upwards of 80% of your readers likely…
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Increasing RPM
Optimizing Your Most Valuable Content for Better RPM and SEO
Back to Blog • You may have noticed from our Go for Teal content that formatting your content to better reflect how people consume content online is a recurring theme. Techniques such as writing shorter sentences and paragraphs, using headings, formatting posts like an outline, and adding more images all help keep users engaged. Today,…
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Go for Teal
Improve RPM and SEO with Headings
Back to Blog • When writing for the web, remember that readers will be skimming, not reading every word. On average, your users will read only about 20% of the content on your page. We’ve talked about online audience behavior at length in the past, and it’s why both Google and Usability.gov encourage you to…
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Advertising
Mediavine Script Wrapper 2.0 is Live! (Here’s What That is and Why it’s Awesome)
Back to Blog • Nearly a year in the making, Mediavine’s new ad tech, or Script Wrapper 2.0, is officially live! Uh… What the Heck is the Script Wrapper? The script wrapper is our core piece of advertising technology, allowing us to deliver billions of ad impressions across thousands of websites and continually optimize them….
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General Blogging
Word Count: Why More is More For SEO and Revenue Alike
Back to Blog • Just last week, we talked about the advantages of writing shorter paragraphs and shorter sentences when it comes to producing content that will maximize your RPM. But to be clear, that doesn’t mean shorter articles. If there’s one pitfall we often see on the content front, it’s that publishers simply don’t have…
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Go for Teal
Shorter Sentences and Paragraphs For Larger RPMs
Back to Blog • If you’ve been following my recent articles on how to improve your RPM, then hopefully by now you have a nice large, mobile-friendly font size and line height. Now that your increased font size and spacing have optimized your text for readability and earning potential, it’s time to do the same…