This article is the final part of a series on how to grow your website by Ezoic Publisher Ron Stefanski. Be sure to read the entire series (linked in article below) to get a comprehensive guide on how to start your blog and earn revenue now. In this series of articles, we’ve looked at a… Continue reading It’s Time to Start Making Money With Your Blog
As any online publisher knows, the bulk of what makes up a site is content, whether it be in the form of a written blog, a video, a compilation of data, or anything else. But when it comes to getting people to see and interact with that content, that is where things get trickier. If… Continue reading Create Really Good Content That Ranks in Google Search
Are you lost on where to start or what to prioritize in regards to optimizing your website to earn revenue? Let this be a guide for all things dedicated to helping you with earnings on your site. While every single step in this model may not be applicable to your site, or you may have… Continue reading 20 Ways to Earn Revenue on Your Website
November’s core update from Google rolled out recently and publishers across the internet had something to say. We’re here to gather the info and report back, and to share data about Ezoic publishers and what they’ve experienced. Additionally, there will be some tips and tricks about what to do in relation to algorithm updates. The… Continue reading What the November Google Core Update Means for You as a Digital Publisher
In any industry, there are certain patterns of business that recur over time. The online advertising industry is no different. While certain times of the year bring revenue records and skyrocketing ad rates, like Black Friday, there are other times of the year that witness dips, including the beginning of the calendar year. As we… Continue reading Why Ad Rates Tend to Drop Start of Year and What You Can Do Now
This article is part four of a series on how to grow your website by Ezoic Publisher Ron Stefanski. Be sure to read part 1 on knowing your market, part 2 about finding the right tech stack, and part 3 that covers tips to launching your website. Now that you have all the tools in… Continue reading How Every Website Blogger Can Gain More Traffic
Ezoic’s video platform is a big piece of our toolset with gives added benefits. Publishers may not have discovered how it’s utilized and all it can do for your site so we’re here to show you. This video tool has quietly been in the Ezoic library of products and features but we’re giving a more… Continue reading See How One Website Increased Revenue by 200% Using Ezoic’s Video Platform
Starting a new website can be both exciting and intimidating. Sometimes it can be hard to know where to start — do I buy a website that already has traffic, do I start a new website, what niche do I want to write about, what tools do I need to get started? Even if you’re… Continue reading Tips and Best Practices For Starting a New Site From Ezoic CMO
Having ads on a website is one of the main ways publishers make money from digital publishing. As most publishers are more concerned about their content than ads, it may seem arbitrary where those ads are placed. However, it is actually extremely important for both revenue and user experience. For Ezoic publishers, ad placement is… Continue reading Increase Revenue and UX By Using Proper Ad Placements
If you haven’t noticed by now, seeing experiences from Ezoic customers is a great way for you to learn more about growing your site, and your income. Now is our time to shout out one of our recent grant winners and learn more about her as a person, publisher, and Ezoic customer…and see how she… Continue reading This Publisher Just Won a Grant and Her Story Will Inspire You
When it comes to monetizing your website and learning about digital publishing, there’s a lot to keep track of. It’s easy to find yourself in a situation where you need some help. At Ezoic, we have multiple resources for helping you, but we know that sometimes it’s difficult to know where to go with which… Continue reading Learn How Ezoic Helps Publishers By Providing These Key Resources
It’s our time to highlight another publisher success story. We’ve had an abundance of publishers to choose from who have truly grown their site as well as their own knowledge in the world of digital publishing. If you’re looking to learn more about monetizing your website, getting help with site speed, developing your content and… Continue reading See How This Publisher Went from Access Now to Level 3 in Less than 6 Months
The Levels expansion we’ve implemented at Ezoic recently has raised a number of questions. After the Levels announcement, we’ve had an overwhelming flux of new customers and sign ups for those looking to monetize their website with Ezoic. Often, prospective publishers are wondering what onboarding is like with Ezoic – who you’re communicating with, what… Continue reading What to Expect From the Ezoic Onboarding Process
Digital advertising has never been more complicated than it is right now, and it is likely to only become more so. There are continually more and more layers and stakeholders being added and it can seem like a lot to keep track of. However, even though digital advertising is becoming so increasingly intricate, there are… Continue reading Understanding the Advertising Ecosystem and How Your Site Can Benefit
As many publishers are very aware, the digital ad industry historically sees the highest ad rates of the whole year in Q4, which starts in October and ends at the end of the calendar year, December 31. The statistics can be pretty incredible, with some websites seeing upwards of 50% of their annual revenue in… Continue reading How to Maximize Your Q4 Ad Earnings
This article is part three of a series on how to grow your website by Ezoic Publisher Ron Stefanski. Be sure to read part one and part two, and stay tuned for more information about monetizing your site in part four. The process of launching a new website doesn’t have to be complex or intimidating.… Continue reading 5 Important Steps to Complete Before Launching Your Website
Enhanced AI Placeholders are coming to Ezoic customers in November 2021. You may have noticed that Ezoic already has AI Placeholders; using Ezoic’s AI placeholders is as easy as toggling a switch on in the Monetization tab of your dashboard. Turning on AI Placeholders allows Ezoic’s technology to locate additional placeholder locations outside of what… Continue reading Enhanced AI Placeholders Are Here: Learn How to Start
Artificial intelligence is evolving practically every minute. As such, the ways that it can be incorporated into our lives are evolving, too. When it comes to creating content, bloggers and publishers can find themselves flooded with options advertised to improve their writing, video or other content. However, while artificial intelligence can be an extremely useful… Continue reading What You Should Know Before You Use AI to Create Content
Since we launched Ezoic Levels just over a month ago, we have seen hundreds publishers move up to the next level. Levels have created more transparency in what offerings and assistance change as levels increase, and it has been exciting to watch our publishers steadily grow with the goal of leveling up. As publishers level… Continue reading 5 Tips to Get You to the Next “Level” with Ezoic
NOTE: This article is interactive. If you use Ezoic, you can login and get insights about your site’s EPMV by clicking links and viewing the unique reports available below. Skip Ahead To Interactive Analysis Use the links below to skip my examples and instructions and go directly to areas where you can analyze your site’s… Continue reading How to Change EPMV On Your Website
Ezoic grants have been something we’ve wanted to do for a while and the time has finally come. We’ve been beyond ecstatic with the turnout and reception from our Customer Week in September where we announced grants as a part of the Levels ecosystem. Now, we can share new data from our recipients, how you… Continue reading Learn More About Ezoic Grants and Our Recent Recipients
Over 28 million websites use WordPress. It is by far the most popular content management system around and if you’re an Ezoic user – most likely your CMS as well. WordPress sites generally do not have highly difficult technical SEO issues, but that does not mean you shouldn’t worry about your technical SEO on your… Continue reading Most Common Technical SEO Issues on WordPress
Ezoic is pleased to offer a limited series offered by guest author and Ezoic publisher, Ron Stefanski, where he details the important steps to take when growing a website or online business. Stay tuned for more helpful tips as he publishes articles throughout the year. According to an annual report from Blissfully.com, typical mid-market companies… Continue reading Growing Your Website, Step 2: Finding the Right Tech Stack
Our recent Customer Week was incredible. We were able to introduce a variety of new expansions and features of Ezoic to our new and existing customers. The new Ad Tester update to the WordPress plugin is an area that could benefit from more in-depth information. In case you missed any of the announcements, as a… Continue reading When to Use New Ad Tester Addition to WordPress Plugin vs. When to Keep Existing Placeholders
Last week, Ezoic celebrated its first ever Customer Week (thanks for attending, by the way!). To wrap up the week, Ezoic CMO Tyler Bishop hosted a live Q&A webinar to respond to any lingering questions surrounding Customer Week, our exciting Levels announcement, grants and other updates made throughout the week. You can watch the full… Continue reading All Your Questions Answered From Customer Week
As many of you have heard, we recently announced Levels, which will change how customers interact with Ezoic by providing more opportunities for growth throughout every stage of a customers’ business. While Levels help classify customers into their appropriate “level” based on monthly revenue and site visits, there is further opportunity to accelerate with our… Continue reading How Ezoic’s New Level-Up Learning Program Works to Excel Publisher Growth
As Customer Week comes to a close, we want to thank you all for joining! There were plenty of announcements made, and in turn, plenty of great questions from our customers. Ezoic CMO Tyler Bishop took to Facebook to do a 24-hour Q&A session. Any question you had, Bishop responded. There were 30 questions in… Continue reading Answering All Your Questions Regarding Customer Week, Levels, Grants and More
Happy Friday! This has been a jam-packed week of announcements! We hope you were able to follow along and take advantage of all the exclusive offerings as an Ezoic customer. To help you stay on top of all the news, we’ve created a quick recap that goes through what we announced each day and where… Continue reading A Quick Guide to All Our Customer Week Announcements
It can be hard to navigate the world of SEO tools when there are so many options out there, all of which claim to drastically improve site metrics and rankings. Ezoic has actually developed an SEO tool that makes a difference for publishers. The Ezoic Tag Tester allows publishers to try different page titles for… Continue reading Why Tag Tester Should Be Your Favorite SEO Tool
The Ezoic Cloud suite is a lightning fast CDN for our publishers. A super-fast cloud built to provide publishers with near instant response times and Core Web Vital-friendly ad serving, all server-side with Ezoic technology. A lot of publishers are unaware that once you’re name server integrated or integrated with Cloudflare, that you’re also integrated… Continue reading Understanding the Advantages of the Ezoic Cloud Suite
If you’re new to Ezoic or haven’t explored Big Data Analytics often, this toolset is here to help you achieve advanced and granular insights on your site. We are continuously adding and updating resources within the Ezoic dashboard and Big Data Analytics in order to help our customers have even more insight into the performance… Continue reading Benefits of Using These 3 Big Data Analytics Segments
Ezoic has given everyone the accessibility to monetize their website with no barrier of entry. Another part of the platform is the ability to monetize video content. An area that publishers can find tremendous success in, is with our video player. This feature is proven to provide better SEO, increase ad revenue, and deliver a… Continue reading A New Way to Host Video
It’s no secret to us that the world of publishing can be confusing at times. The battle of creating quality content, managing it, and monetizing it can feel overwhelming. Our recent development added Ad Tester to the Ezoic WordPress plugin to take some of that difficulty away. Located under the “Ad Settings” tab, the new… Continue reading Ad Tester Addition to the Ezoic WordPress Plugin Means Simplified Placeholder Set Up
The introduction to Ezoic’s site speed tools and technology begins with Leap, our end-to-end toolset designed to help publishers improve their websites by both fixing and identifying things that can affect site performance. Leap was rolled out to publishers over the last several months — and in this latest announcement, we are pleased to inform… Continue reading Leap Available to All: Plus See What the Fastest Sites Have in Common
We released some big news today. Along with Leap being fully available to all Ezoic customers, we are also excited to announce that any website under 10,000 pageviews can now apply to our Access Now program. Access Now is a program Ezoic created to allow smaller (under 10,000 pageviews) publishers, bloggers, website owners, and niche… Continue reading How These New Sites Grew Traffic and Revenue With Ezoic Access Now
Today, as we kick-off Customer Week, we are introducing our new “Levels” to current and future Ezoic customers. This latest announcement will position customers for success regardless of their size or current earnings. Read on to learn why Levels were created, the benefits to publishers, and how to take advantage of this huge announcement. What… Continue reading Introducing Levels: Everything You Need to Know About Our Latest Announcement
Ezoic has had multiple new products released within the last few months that publishers may be unaware or unsure of how to use. All of these products are specifically designed to give publishers the right tools to enhance UX, increase revenue, and improve site speed. Thousands of publishers integrated with Ezoic are using one of… Continue reading How Our New Features Helped This Publisher Increase Revenue by 80%
We dropped some major news yesterday. In case you missed it, we announced a $12.4 million investment in our customers. You probably have questions, like how this investment will affect you and your success as an Ezoic publisher. Our upcoming investment will have a huge range of benefits for our customers. We’ll be sharing all… Continue reading 3 Ways Publishers Can Score Big With Our Recent $12.4 Million Customer Investment
Ezoic is pleased to offer a limited series offered by guest author and Ezoic publisher, Ron Stefanski, where he details the important steps to take when growing a website or online business. Stay tuned for more helpful tips as he publishes articles throughout the year. These days, many argue that having a digital presence plays… Continue reading Growing Your Website, Step 1: Know Your Market
The last thing a website that you have worked hard to make authoritative and engaging needs is to find its content has been duplicated elsewhere. Yet some unscrupulous individuals, spammers, and scraper bots will think nothing of stealing whole pages of original content and blogs from your site to furnish their empty, or worse still,… Continue reading How Do I Report Stolen Content to Google?
With better, more optimized ads, Ezoic is able to increase your EPMV – the metric that matters most when valuing web traffic and earnings. But how and why? The secret is helping Ezoic publishers get their ad rates through the roof, while decreasing the amount of ads your audience will see. What Ezoic is able… Continue reading How to Earn More Ad Revenue…With Fewer Ads
If you’re here, you probably have the intuition that visits and pageviews translate into ad revenue. But you may be asking questions like, how can I get my website to make money? Or what are best practices in improving my site and getting traffic? All publishers are aiming to increase their traffic and generate more… Continue reading How is Website Traffic Tied Into Ad Revenue?
There’s been an extraordinary amount of buzz surrounding Google MCM (also known as Multiple Customer Management). Recently, we’ve seen a substantial amount of questions from publishers on the migration process. As of now, SPM will officially be turned off on January 31, 2022. We posted an initial blog on what the MCM module means for… Continue reading What is Google MCM and How to Successfully Migrate from SPM
SEO is one of the most cost effective ways of increasing your web traffic. The traffic is free and it comes in consistently month to month. SEO is often perceived as challenging however. The results take a while to see and there’s no guarantee of success. What publishers, especially Ezoic publishers, should know though is… Continue reading How to Increase Web Traffic By Using Tools You Already Have
While we all know there’s no formula or secret for success, it has become quite clear to us here at Chrome Unboxed that there are factors that play a significant role in a publisher’s ability to generate revenue and grow a business from making quality content for the web. First and foremost, that last sentence… Continue reading How to Diversify Talent to Meet Website Goals Faster, More Efficiently
Of recent, there have been plenty of quandaries about WordPress themes. There have been facts, opinions, and myths since the conception of WordPress revolving around the tens of thousands of themes available. The areas of focus we’ll discuss here is speed and earnings. What more could you ask for? You’ll find that these two pieces… Continue reading Why These Basic WordPress Themes Are Faster & Higher Earning
Have you seen the news? Yesterday, we unveiled our Certified Seamless Program for the first time. With the announcement of our Certified Seamless partnerships, the goal is for you, our Ezoic publishers, to easily navigate technologies that have been proven to work well with Ezoic. While this is exciting news, all this information is nothing… Continue reading What Ezoic Publishers Should Know About the New Certified Seamless Partnership Program
Back in 2017, Ezoic’s CMO, Tyler Bishop, posted a blog on the fundamental question all bloggers ask themselves when they’re starting out: Will my blog make money… or not? Four years later, his tips and findings still ring true. But as the years go on, technology (and especially the internet) keep evolving, and we do… Continue reading Will My New Website Make Money? (2021 Update)
If you are planning the next steps of your affiliate marketing strategy, are you considering taking the high road? The affiliate marketing trade is all about selecting the right niche and procuring an advantageous commission-based arrangement that will remunerate your marketing efforts and expertise. With traditional affiliate marketing, we earn by scaling the returns from lower percentage commissions. The average affiliate… Continue reading What is High-Ticket Affiliate Marketing & How to Make it Work for You
Today we’re answering the question: what does missing field data mean? And how the lack of this data impacts your Core Web Vitals. We’ll be going over how your website can obtain field data and its pros and cons, what to do without it, and how Ezoic gives you valuable tools for improving site speed.… Continue reading What Does Missing Field Data Mean for Your Core Web Vitals?
Caching is the process of storing proxy server information for a set amount of time before the proxy server goes back to the original server to get the most updated version of the website. Caching is important because if done properly, it can greatly increase website speed and drastically reduce the time visitors have to… Continue reading Understanding Caching and How It Impacts Site Speed
Google has announced that they’re rolling out a new program for all Google Ad Manager (GAM) users, and that includes you, Ezoic publishers. Multiple Customer Management (MCM) will be replacing the Scaled Partner Management (SPM) module with a deadline of January 31, 2022. A transition period is currently happening. At Ezoic, we’re a part of… Continue reading What Does Google’s New MCM Module Mean for Publishers?
You may have seen this terminology thrown around in relation to your Core Web Vitals and site speed. If you’ve ever been confused, you’re not alone. We’ll break down all the categorizations so you can know what you’re looking at and what it means. Next time you’re doing a deep dive on your data in… Continue reading Lab, Field, and Origin Data: What’s the Difference and How They Impact Core Web Vitals
It’s inevitable. Neophyte and expert publishers alike determine that the best way to achieve their revenue or traffic goals is to add more stuff to their Web pages. More widgets, more content, more graphics, more animations, even more embedded videos. The problem is, that’s rarely the best way to improve your site and user experience,… Continue reading Why Keeping it ‘Simple’ is Key to Reach Your Website Goals
The right tools and resources can make a world of difference when it comes to digital publishing. There are hundreds of thousands of tools to choose from covering everything from SEO to security to video, and it can be hard to know which ones are valuable. So how do you choose which news to follow… Continue reading The best publishing tools according to blogging and publishing experts
Ezoic users mainly know it as an ad platform to monetize their website. While that is true, in actuality, Ezoic is a holistic monetization platform that offers a suite of tools to improve the experience on your site and in turn, earn you more revenue. There are several key tools I used in my time… Continue reading See the 3 Tools That Helped This Publisher’s Site Earn More Revenue
Today’s discussion is focused on creating a way to track Core Web Vitals. Specifically, the way Google does and how the results are instant. We’ll be making a Chrome UX data dashboard. The goal is to monitor and see month over month how your Core Web Vitals are either improving or declining in granular detail.… Continue reading Track Core Web Vitals the Way Google Does…Instantly
Being a digital publisher has never been more complicated. There’s more for website owners to be concerned about than ever before — site speed, GDPR/CCPA, privacy, monetization, video, Google updates…and the list continues to grow. Despite all of the complications of digital publishing, there is still one rule that holds true: Content is King. While… Continue reading Content is Still King: 5 Tips for Writing Content That Ranks on Google
Spoiler alert: It’s good news. We were pleased to find that Ezoic publishers performed well after this most recent Google Core Update. Last week we talked about two Ezoic publishers and how their Core Web Vitals scores improved after the update. We’re following up now to even further break down all the questions you may… Continue reading How The Google Core Update in June 2021 Impacted Publishers
Digital publishers want to get the maximum benefit from their revenue streams, but as many will likely agree, it’s hard to know if you’ve chosen the right earnings models or if something you’re doing is affecting that revenue negatively. Mixing and matching these revenue models is not uncommon, but as we’ve discussed before on this… Continue reading How to Mix Revenue Models to Maximize Earnings
Website Ad Revenue Down? Want it To Go Up? I see daily questions and posts from digital publishers of all shapes and sizes wondering why their website ad revenue is up — and more typically — down (this is certainly what leads to more investigations). Even if a site isn’t trying to diagnose the cause… Continue reading Why Website Ad Revenue Goes Up or Down (EPMV and RPS)
In a recent interview with Simon Andrews, Tyler Bishop discussed how cookies impact advertising’s future, internet data privacy, the value of personalized ads, and why the most dominant businesses in the world are focused on advertising. Simon is the producer of the addictive! newsletter, Fix, and has been on several past interviews with Ezoic. This… Continue reading How Cookies Impact Advertising’s Future with Simon Andrews (addictive! London)
IMPORTANT: Ezoic Leap will be available to all Ezoic monetization users by August 2021. This site generated passing (green) CLS, LCP, and FID in Lighthouse field and lab data, but I had to make a few tweaks and account for Lighthouse getting an uncached page on the first test run. #1 – Cache Miss. Server… Continue reading How I Made A Fast WordPress Site With Ads Using Ezoic Leap
If you are looking to know more about buying and selling websites, you have come to the right place. This article includes details for anybody who is looking to sell their site. It will also include details for those who are looking to buy a site to add to their portfolio. How do you make… Continue reading Where to Buy and Sell Websites
What is Ezoic Leap? Want to skip my text below? You can watch my video above, or simply check out some of the images for an overview below this brief synopsis of Ezoic Leap. I’m going to share something with you today that we are really excited about and it’s called Ezoic Leap. With the… Continue reading Announcing Ezoic Leap, A Website Performance Toolset
In SEO, every new year brings new competitors, updates, and higher standards for the content Google and other search engines want to rank on the web. For some site owners, the solution is to ever expand their site’s content footprint. While that is a good tactic, you don’t want to count out another golden SEO… Continue reading How to Find Articles to Update & Improve SEO Performance
If you’re a digital entrepreneur, you know the importance of good content. You also know the difficulties of creating said content. In this article, we’re looking at a popular alternative to creating your own content – buying it. That’s right, many web publishing entrepreneurs purchase content to populate their sites. This saves them time, and… Continue reading How to Purchase Website Content That Works
Editors note: standard integrations with Ezoic do not support infinite scroll. Additionally, most ad ops professionals agree that infinite scroll reduces revenue, both short and long-term. For more information, please visit our blog post on ad dilution and viewability. As media publishers, we are always looking for creative ways to increase a website’s revenue. There… Continue reading 3 Easy Wins to Increase Website Valuations
Sometimes publishers find themselves with useful information that would benefit their readers but there isn’t enough content to fill an entire blog. Instead of trying to stretch out the topic, you can use something called the Army Ants method to take multiple smaller topics and create a full-length blog. Writing articles with the Army Ants… Continue reading How to Use Smaller Topics to Write Longer Articles
As 2020 has come to a close, publishers are looking to press forward into 2021. Many sites are considering what steps to take to write better content, acquire more traffic, and make more revenue. In a survey of 17 industry experts, we pulled together their top advice on SEO, revenue, content, keywords, traffic, and more.… Continue reading 2021 SEO Advice From Publishing and Blogging Experts
The blogging journey often starts simple enough. You have an idea that you want to share and you start writing. With the availability of blogging tools, the process can almost seem effortless and easy. However, I’ve now been blogging for a long time and I can tell you without a doubt, that even though starting… Continue reading 7 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a Blog
The start of Q1 is typically when ad rates are at their lowest. Historically, a website’s annual revenue is not equally split between quarters which begs the question, what percentage of annual revenue do publishers earn in each respective quarter? Despite what 2020 brought, many publishers still saw high ad rates in the fourth quarter.… Continue reading The Percentage of Annual Revenue Publishers Make Per Quarter
For the last several years, I have used the year-end “5 Bullet Friday” newsletter as an opportunity to write something helpful to all our subscribers. I wanted to publish this note to a broader audience this year. In past years, I’d focus on digital trends, future areas of industry disruption, and strategies for the future.… Continue reading Digital Publishing Trends In 2020 and 2021
