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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…

If you’re one of Mediavine’s 8,500+ publishers, you’re surely familiar with our innovative and exclusive “Report This Ad” link below every advertisement. We take ad quality very seriously, and “Report This Ad” has been a Mediavine staple since the early days and eventually launched our own Ad Reporter. As popular as…

Mediavine is always excited to tell publishers What’s Next for Grow … literally in this case. One of our most popular Recommended Content features, the Mobile Carousel, is getting a facelift – and a performance boost along with it. I hope you’re sitting down for this, because we’re about to blow…

We’ve noticed a trend. Publishers, advertisers, readers and even Mediavine staff members are all asking the time-honored question of 2021: What is Grow? Even for those of us who live and breathe Mediavine, it’s challenging to digest all the things Grow can do for publishers, let alone why readers should embrace…

As a food blogger, there’s one key ingredient to your success: taking delicious photos of your recipes. But how do you do that with the seemingly endless competition and incredibly complex Google algorithm? In this episode of Mediavine On-Air, Stephanie Keeping and Melodee Fiske of Pretty Focused break down their system…

Attention, Mediavine publishers with web traffic coming from Europe: We hope you’re sitting down, because we’ve got some exciting news for you. No, it’s not GDPR related, we promise. We mean actual good news — a rarity when it comes to advertising in Europe — in the expansion of the Mediavine…

As we shared earlier this summer, Google delayed its roadmap for phasing out support for third-party cookies, moving its own timeline back by nearly two years. Google shifted Chrome’s plan to deprecate third-party cookies because, to make a long story short, we need additional time as an industry to get it…

Hi, everyone! You probably don’t recognize my name here on the blog, so allow me to introduce myself: I’m Alysha Duff, Media Relations Specialist here at Mediavine. What does that mean? It means I’m working behind the scenes to help shape Mediavine’s public voice through the media. While my teammates frequent…

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…

It’s no secret that we are huge proponents of video at Mediavine. Publishers who embrace video can earn much higher advertising revenue, reap the SEO benefits and even offer a great experience for users if they take the right steps. However, we’re also aware that video presents challenges. Creating videos worth…

If you’re running Grow — and if you’re not, we’re telling you, you’re missing out — then you’re likely familiar with its awesome Recommended Content feature. Recommended, or personalized, content provides users with a superior browsing experience, encouraging them to authenticate and consent to personalized ads. Grow widgets will display content…

Greetings content creators and welcome to another episode of Mediavine On Air, the podcast just for you. RPM, or revenue per mille, is often mistakenly thought of as the amount or way that a website earns. While this is not the case, RPM is a math equation that provides an overall…