Blog
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Mediavine
Meet the New Mediavine Dashboard
Back to Blog • One login. Every Feature. Your business has evolved— and so has the Mediavine Dashboard. That’s why we’ve redesigned the Mediavine Dashboard from the ground up. To make it easier to navigate, understand your data, and take meaningful action. It’s your one-stop shop for managing your business. This is as much a…
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Mediavine
Create Has a New Home — and Exciting Updates Ahead
Back to Blog • Since its launch in 2018, the Create WordPress plugin has helped thousands of publishers display recipes, how-tos, craft tutorials, and travel guides — all while keeping speed, SEO, and reader experience front and center. From the beginning, Create has been a tool built with publishers in mind. And today, we’re thrilled…
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Mediavine
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Community, Heart, and Flavor
Back to Blog • Hispanic Heritage Month gives us an opportunity to celebrate the cultures, histories, and contributions of the Hispanic and Latin American communities. This celebration feels especially meaningful as so many of our publishers share their culture through food. This year, the Mediavine team came together to honor Hispanic Heritage Month by cooking…
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Mediavine
5 Simple Ways to Tune Up Your Site for Q4
Back to Blog • Ready or not, the end of the year seems to always sneak up on us. Here’s everything you can do right now to optimize your site and make the most of Q4 with its high advertising spend and eCPM trends. ✅ Review Your Hosting Plan You should be on a hosting…
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Advertising
Content Viewability Health Check: Simple Goals For Maximizing Revenue
Back to Blog • For as long as we can remember, we’ve stressed to our publishers that the key to success with Mediavine, and programmatic advertising in general, is viewability. As its name implies, viewability means that your ads are seen by readers, giving advertisers the performance they need to pay a premium for your…
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Pagespeed
Mediavine Core Web Vitals Update: What You Need to Know
Back to Blog • Updated 8/30/2021 – The Trellis Open Beta is now available to all! Turbocharge your WordPress site and conquer those Core Web Vital scores with the theme built for speed. Learn more or get Trellis now! The much-anticipated (or at least much-talked-about) Google Page Experience algorithm is officially in effect as of…
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Pagespeed
How to Choose Fonts for Site Speed and Accessibility
Back to Blog • Call me a typography nerd, but choosing brand fonts is always my favorite part of the design process. Typography, the study of fonts and the way letters are designed has long been pivotal in providing readers with easy reading experiences. (Okay, yes, I am a typography nerd.) Best practices for choosing…
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Pagespeed
The Hollywood Gossip Passes Core Web Vitals: Here’s How You Can Too
Back to Blog • As you’ve heard us talk about at length, Google is set to release its new pagespeed requirements, known as Core Web Vitals, as part of the Google Page Experience algorithm update. Originally scheduled for sometime in May, we reported last week that the update is now delayed until June to give…
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Pagespeed
How To Do A Plugin Self Audit: The Mediavine Way
Back to Blog • Why perform a plugin audit? Cutting down on unnecessary plugins not only helps with site speed and performance, but it can also make identifying bugs and conflicts much easier. Getting started with a plugin audit can feel daunting, especially if you have a lot of plugins. But this post will help…
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Pagespeed
Google Page Experience Update: Rollout Delayed Until Mid-June
Back to Blog • Good news for publishers (or at least good news with a side of “we all panicked to make sure everyone had enough time for a re-crawl, when in reality we could’ve panicked slightly less”): The slow rollout of the Google Page Experience update we expected in May has now been pushed…
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Mediavine
Core Web Vitals: Google Page Experience Checklist For Bloggers
Back to Blog • Updated 8/30/2021 – The Trellis Open Beta is now available to all! Turbocharge your WordPress site and conquer those Core Web Vital scores with the theme built for speed. Learn more or get Trellis now! The much-discussed Google Page Experience update is set to hit next month (May 2021) and with…
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Pagespeed
Largest Contentful Paint: Optimizing for LCP
Back to Blog • Publishers have been hearing a lot about the new Google Page Experience algorithm that will begin factoring into rankings in May 2021 — and for good reason. Pagespeed is always top of mind at Mediavine, but with this Google change on the horizon, it should be a priority for everyone. To…
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Pagespeed
Google Announces Core Web Vitals Change: Less (Than) is More
Back to Blog • Google quietly announced a small change in how it calculates Core Web Vitals data in Search Console this week. This change in Google’s calculation methods for these all-important pagespeed metrics is so subtle you could easily miss it. As of February 17, 2021, instead of using “less than” as a boundary…
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Pagespeed
Google Page Experience Signals: Coming May 2021
Back to Blog • Earlier this year, Google announced that Page Experience signals would soon be included in Google Search rankings. This week, Google announced the rollout date for these new ranking signals. We can expect them to take effect starting in May 2021. As their name implies, Google Page Experience signals measure how readers…
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Advertising
CLS: Solving for Cumulative Layout Shift
Back to Blog • Cumulative Layout Shift is a pagespeed metric of Google’s Core Web Vitals. In today’s post, learn how to solve for CLS to make your pages faster. The announcement of Google’s new Page Experience algorithm brings us a series of new Web Vitals, or metrics regarding the pagespeed and experience of your…
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General Blogging
Google Page Experience: A New Ranking Signal and the End of AMP Requirements
Back to Blog • What was long rumored is now official: Google is releasing a new ranking signal in 2021, called Page Experience. With this change effectively comes the phasing out of Google’s AMP requirements. This means that current search features exclusive to AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) like the Top Stories carousel will soon be…