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Back to Blog • Today on the Mediavine blog, we’re throwing it back to 2017, famously known to SEO experts across the web as the Year of the Parboil. It was never actually known as such, of course, but an experiment from back then remains instructive and shapes our SEO strategies today. A blog post…

Back to Blog • If you’re a new blogger, bookmark this and come back in a few years. But if you’ve been blogging for awhile, you may have already asked yourself this SEO question: Should you delete content that’s old and/or not doing a lot for you? Looking for a quick answer? Sorry. We’re going…

Back to Blog • If you’re reading this, you already know that linking is an important part of both on- and off-page Search Engine Optimization (SEO). With that in mind, we’ve put together the ultimate guide on how to link — while following our own advice and including a plethora of links to our previous…

Back to Blog • 2022 Update: For the most up to date information from Mediavine about Google Web Stories, please read our Web Stories FAQ. As you may have heard in the news or from other publishers, Google’s AMP story format has recently been rebranded. Welcome, Google Web Stories! Stories are all the rage online…

Back to Blog • When it comes to navigating your website, the site hierarchy or site structure, is extremely critical for users and search engines alike. Allowing for easy, effective navigation of your website sounds obvious, because every user and publisher knows (and wants) that. So what do we mean by site structure, and why…

Back to Blog • Much like the alt text you use to describe an image, Google will read the filename of the image to learn about it. Whomever who coined the old adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” probably never considered search engines. It may be true as far as your readers are…

Back to Blog • As an internet user, you know what a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is — but did you know that your URL structure or the permalink settings as WordPress calls them, can impact Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? That’s right, something the visitor barely sees, let alone analyzes, in the address bar at…

Back to Blog • They say you don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression. This is certainly true in the world of SEO as well as life. When a user first arrives on a page from search engines, the first impression is everything that loads in the first screen view. They…

Back to Blog • Most publishers know that heading tags, like meta descriptions and page title tags, are a key component of a website’s content structure. But how much do they really matter for SEO, and how should you use them? Glad you asked, because that’s the focus of our SEO Like a CEO series…

Back to Blog • If you’ve been reading this blog at all lately, or following what’s going on in the blogging ecosystem more broadly, then you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about website accessibility. But what is accessibility as it pertains to the web? If you’ve been reading this blog at all lately, or…

Back to Blog • If you’re familiar at all with SEO, chances are you’ve heard of the meta description. What you might be surprised to learn is how to write a great one — and that this still matters in 2020. The meta description is a hidden HTML attribute at the top of your web…

Back to Blog • Page title, or title tags, is the single most important piece of on-page SEO you have control over. Is the pressure on? No, absolutely not.  Don’t stress because we’re going to teach you the rules of constructing SEO-optimized page titles, using all the advice we’ve given in Mediavine’s SEO Like A…