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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…
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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…
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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…
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The end of the third-party cookie is near for Chrome as Google looks to replace much of their functionality with avian-themed solutions. Third-party cookies were for the birds all along! Ornithological jokes aside, Google’s Privacy Sandbox is a series of tools designed to bridge the gap between user privacy and personalized…
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It’s important to create new posts for our blogs, but that’s not the only way to get search traffic to your site. Sometimes we forget that we’re sitting on a gold mine of old posts that can bring in traffic, too. Today we’re welcoming the wonderful Sherry Smothermon-Short of Cub Scout…
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Hello, Mediavine publishers! This post is going out to you. Since the release of Mediavine Control Panel 2.5 in November 2020, we’ve been hard at work on some new features for the first 2021 update to our core plugin. (We’ve got a pretty comprehensive help doc if you’re not sure what…
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Stop us if you’ve heard this before: When it comes to helping publishers survive the demise of the third-party cookie, Mediavine is all in. Actually, don’t stop us. It bears repeating, since the health of our entire ecosystem depends on solving for the end of third-party cookies. Mediavine’s solution is twofold:…
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By now, you don’t need us to remind you what a challenge the last 12 months have been, or why. Personally and professionally, the most difficult part of 2020 was the uncertainty. From a business standpoint, all of us at Mediavine were on pins and needles wondering how lockdowns, health concerns…
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In case you missed it, Mediavine recently won the most awards at the 2020 Google Certified Publishing Partner Summit on November 18th, making us the winningest GCPP for the second year in a row. CEO Eric Hochberger already gave the low down on our Highest Health Score award and today Mediavine’s…
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By now, you’ve probably heard the news: Google Chrome is phasing out third-party cookies, joining the ranks of Firefox and Safari in radically altering the programmatic advertising landscape. Google estimates that programmatic ad revenue drops as much as 60% without third-party cookies, but there’s no turning back in this privacy-focused world….
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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…
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Last week, Mediavine announced Grow, our solution for content creators to control first-party data in an ever-changing industry. We’ll explain each of these points in detail below. Grow is Not a Replacement For Your Newsletter During our September 17 Facebook Live, a few publishers asked why Grow does not make publisher-owned…