General Blogging
Back to Blog • Welcome, welcome to our second installment of the Mediavine Content Upgrade Challenge! I’m taking a quick break from answering emails to give you guys a bit of a walk-through on specific things to look for when you are doing a self-audit and want to make your content work its very hardest…
General Blogging
Back to Blog • Changing blogging platforms is a big decision, and not one to take lightly. Our publisher Laurence Norah of Finding the Universe made the switch from Blogger to WordPress earlier this year, and offered to share his experience with us. Changing blogging platforms is a big decision, and not one to take…
General Blogging
Back to Blog • Update: The Create WordPress plugin has been acquired by one of its original engineers, John-Michael (JM) L’Allier. Now independently managed, Create remains in active development and continues to serve publishers under JM’s leadership. If you have any questions, please visit https://create.studio or email support@create.studio. Today is a big day at Mediavine, as we…
Traffic Growth
Back to Blog • Any time is a good time to optimize your content, which is why we’re here to introduce the Mediavine Content Upgrade Challenge! While many of us think of Q4 as the quarter where we make all our money, it’s important to know that advertising spend varies by the season. Contrary to…
Social Media
Back to Blog • Let’s talk about one of the less sparkly and exciting, but very important, topics within the blogging world, shall we? Disclosure. It’s a word that gets people fired up and feeling all the feels. I get it, it feels clunky and like one more thing you have to check off your…
Advertising
Back to Blog • Many of you remember the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) changes earlier this year. Or perhaps you’ve tried to block them out. Either way, a little over three months later, the sky has not fallen. After countless questions, Facebook Live sessions, discussions with lawyers and ad partners, Mediavine presented…
General Blogging
Back to Blog • Heya fellow bloggers! I’m Lena Gott, blogger at What Mommy Does and blog coach at Adventures in Blogging. I hope you’re doing well and not too weary from a summer traffic slump (if you experience this like I do every year). In case you missed it, I did a joint video…
General Blogging
Back to Blog • It goes without saying that a blogger’s content is their bread and butter. You want to both keep your readers on your site and encourage them to return in the future. Lightning-fast site speed and quality site design are great goals to strive for that help with this—but it goes without…
Advertising
Back to Blog • Warning: This post may venture into the tech weeds, but it should bring to light some of the details behind the scenes of online advertising — specifically, what advertisers are looking for when purchasing your inventory, and how publishers benefit from it. What Are Cookies? Everyone has heard of cookies, especially…
Advertising
Back to Blog • Post updated September 2023 Mediavine’s sales and revenue team spends most of its time working externally with ad partners and internally with our Ad Operations team to deliver the most value for every single impression on our publishers’ properties. One question we often hear from publishers, however, is what they can…
Influencer Marketing
Back to Blog • You’re familiar with our mission statement here at Mediavine, right? In case you need a refresher, the thing that we love to do above all else is “build sustainable businesses for content creators.” As a team of content creators ourselves, we know that one of the biggest components of building a…
Pagespeed
Back to Blog • 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…