If you're a food blogger using Journey (a lower-tier ad network by Mediavine), you may have noticed some pretty obtrusive ads showing inside your recipe card on mobile devices. They show up in between ingredients and in between steps of your recipe, and when combined...
10 High-Impact Ways to Promote Your Blog for Maximum Reach
Writing a blog post can feel like a major accomplishment. You’ve spent hours researching, drafting, and refining, and finally, you hit that publish button. But as satisfying as that moment is, it’s only the beginning! Once your content is live, the next step is...
Confession: De-“ME”-ifying my business assets
Are you running a business based around YOU? Hi, me too! In fact, I started this business, The Unconventional RD, purely as a hobby. I wanted a space to connect with other digital entrepreneurs (15k+ members at this point?!) and keep myself accountable by sharing what...
What the Best Content Creators Do Differently
During my latest Office Hour call, we chatted about the “X-Factors” of content creation. The little things that transform a piece of content from “Meh”, to “WOW, this is amazing!” While many of us can look at two pieces of content and easily say which is “better”... …...
72x More Traffic…. 15 Minutes of Work {Here’s How}
Ever published something on your website, hoped for the best, and never looked at it again? If so, you’re not alone. Keeping your content fresh can be daunting for even the most seasoned creators. But let me show you why it’s important to update your older...
11 Surprisingly Productive Business Tasks for Low Brain Power Days
Running a business is hard. Especially when juggling other responsibilities at the same time. There will be moments when you’re fully “on” and entrenched in deep work in your business… … but also times when you’re maxed out and want mindless work (that will still move...
The 3 Content Styles That Drive Online Business
Search-optimized content is one of the most effective ways to grow an audience online. Over the last 9 years, my website content has reached literally millions of people via search engines (like Google) and helped me earn over $1 million...
Don’t worry, you’re not stuck with AI Overviews 😜
If you’re one of the zillions of people who aren’t enjoying AI Overviews in Google search… … here are a few creative ways to get around them! #1) Use Google’s new "Web" filter Google quickly realized that some searchers want written content when searching… … so they...
Can You Track Your Rankings in AI Overviews?
Yesterday, I shared examples of Google’s “AI Overviews”, rolling out to US users this week. (In case you missed it, you can catch up here.) So… what has the reception been like? SEOs have been unimpressed with Google’s AI responses for the last year… … but Google...
