SEO Case Study: My Forking Life

Have you heard that ads aren’t good for SEO? Well that is definitely not true and Mediavine loves SEO.
Search engines are still what fuels traffic to Mediavine’s O & O sites, so everything we do with ads keeps SEO as the focus. Read more about how Mediavine ads play nicely with SEO in Eric’s post.
SEO and pagespeed are two of Mediavine’s top company passions, which we love sharing with our publishers via our Facebook lives, help center, social media and blog posts like our ultimate SEO checklist and other SEO resources. When you grow and win, we also win!
This is why we love sharing our Case Studies, which focus on how our publishers leverage Mediavine’s SEO, pagespeed tools and settings to rank higher in search engines, boost traffic and earn even more with their ads.
Today we are excited to introduce you to Tanya of the blog My Forking Life. She’s here to tell us about her SEO strategies. Welcome to the blog, Tanya!
About 3 years. I joined Mediavine in April 2018.
Mobile – high
Desktop – medium.
These are the default settings. I haven’t had any complaints about the ads and I’m a believer that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Plus…it’s not that many ads and they aren’t intrusive.
Mobile -66
Desktop – 94
February 2018
It’s been great! I’ve read all the blog posts and watched the videos from the previous Mediavine Conferences on Youtube. (Editor’s Note: You can find all of our past conference videos on the Mediavine YouTube channel.) I learned a ton about SEO by doing that. The lazy loading has helped my site speed.
As far as overall, I love the money I’m making and it encourages me to continue to provide valuable content to my audience. My philosophy is that people won’t be bothered by ads if the content is great.
I keep plugins to a minimum if I can for site speed and I lazy load my images with WP Rocket. For SEO, podcasts are my friend. Thanks Theory of Content and maybe luck?
Yes. All of them.
Yes, the Youtube videos from the Mediavine Conference. Especially the Theory of Content one.
Keyword research and write about what people are looking for. And make it freaking great. Then interlink, interlink, interlink.
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