Even though advertising revenue rates across the board have steadily risen more and more with each passing year, the slowest time of each year is usually in January; this is because the holiday season is over, companies have spent the last remaining advertisement budget, and the world takes a breath from “buying stuff” for a… Continue reading The Biggest Things to Look Forward To With Ezoic in 2023
Website errors have plagued publishers since the dawn of the internet. 404 missing pages, broken links, bad requests, and countless other website errors can all combine to restrict your site’s traffic, revenue, and authority while impeding your audience’s experience. Fortunately, many of these errors are easily fixable, especially Google Search Console errors. Here, you’ll learn… Continue reading How to Solve Google Search Console Errors and Get More Organic Traffic
In his best-selling book The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason explained money and financial success like this: “Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed,” he wrote. “The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow.” If you can take and plant the right seed… Continue reading Should You Buy Websites For Profit, or Just Continue to Grow Your Current One?
Over the 10+ years I’ve spent being a publisher, I’ve had to change strategy many times. I’ve had great months and terrible months. I’ve made a ton of money and lost a ton of money. Sometimes things worked, sometimes they completely failed. Those “here’s how success actually happens!” memes like this one became less of… Continue reading 5 Proven Ways to Get More Traffic and Save a Dying Site
When I first started blogging seriously, it took me years to pay attention to any other metric besides views. Views were all I cared about. If I had more views, great! I was doing something right. If I had less views, damn; that meant I was doing something wrong. This isn’t an uncommon line of… Continue reading These Big Data Analytics Reports Can Change the Game of Your Site
Ezoic recently launched Humix, an all-in-one solution for video hosting, video sharing, and embedding network videos. It’s been gaining enormous traction from countless publishers who are seeing revenue increases through Humix, like this publisher who saw a 68% increase in overall revenue after using Humix! Although it’s not quite as popular as YouTube (yet), you… Continue reading 6 Reasons Why Humix is Better Than YouTube
The two issues on every publisher’s mind, either consciously or unconsciously, usually revolve around these eternal questions: Most of our work can (and probably should) relate to answering these questions. The art of publishing comes from applying strategies and executing ideas that tend to bring us more traffic and, therefore, more revenue. Anyone can buy… Continue reading How (and Why) This Publisher Saw a 68% Increase in Revenue After Using Humix
I’ve been a publisher for over ten years now. For the first 4.5 years, I really had no success at all — a measly 50 views/day, 200 subscribers, and no monthly income. I was ready to quit. Fortunately, things turned around and I was able to build a very successful publishing business with millions of views, tens… Continue reading 5 Important Lessons No One Told Me About Being a Successful Publisher
In his book The Millionaire Fastlane, best-selling author MJ DeMarco told a short parable about the power of automation. An ancient Egyptian pharaoh summons his two nephews, Azur and Chuma, and tasks them each with building an enormous pyramid. The prize for the fastest builder? Being named the new pharaoh. The only rule: they must… Continue reading 4 Ways to Automate Your Site That Will Help You Earn More Money
Dwayne Lefleur, founder and CEO of Ezoic, recently brought light to an eye-opening truth every publisher needs to hear: Niches don’t earn money; sites do. It can be so easy to think that specific niches will make you a ton of money, just through their popularity alone, no market research or much planning required. That… Continue reading How to Conduct Market Research to Find High-Performing Topics
At Ezoic, we believe in supporting our customers at every stage of their businesses. It can be challenging and confusing to navigate the world of publishing, so we wanted to improve the channels in which our publishers can seek help. Our new support community will not only be closely monitored by Ezoic support, but will… Continue reading Our New Support Community Gives Publishers Streamlined Help
Ezoic recently launched NicheIQ, our free SEO toolkit for Ezoic publishers. We’ve taken years of data and feedback to come up with the most helpful and easy-to-use SEO tools available, and there’s a strong case that it’s one of the best free SEO toolkits on the market. NicheIQ comes with three major tools: 1. Topic… Continue reading Is NicheIQ the Best Free SEO Toolkit on the Market?
How to Get Indexed in 4 of the World’s Biggest Search Engines If there’s one thing publishers can count on, it’s that the internet will operate very differently in just a few years. This is how it’s always been. As markets change, search engine algorithms adapt, trends come and go; digital marketing patterns are constantly… Continue reading When It Comes to Increasing Traffic and Revenue, Ezoic’s Quadruple Dip Formula Will Change Everything
Most emails aren’t great. Why? Because too often, marketers are too busy creating emails that simply check a box (“We sent a reminder email for our product this week”) instead of crafting genuine messages that real people would actually want to read. Have you ever read mass-produced emails from major corporations like banks or grocery… Continue reading 18 Email Ideas That Can Earn You More Revenue From Your Site
Ezoic recently launched Humix and Flickify, creating a powerul one-two punch for marketers looking to tap into video content revenue. Most popular website income streams offer you a simple method to get paid which requires an enormous amount of work: YouTube pays creators for video views, but that requires creating, editing, and publishing great videos… Continue reading How to Earn a Ton of Revenue Using Flickify and Humix Together
Since rolling out Humix and Flickify to Ezoic publishers, we at Ezoic were eager to start seeing the success stories. In the past few weeks alone, we’ve been blown away at the results so far and the publishers who’ve been seeing an enormous change in revenue, traffic, and influence. It was difficult to choose from… Continue reading See How This Publisher Boosts Their 4 Sites With Humix and Flickify
Welcome to Ezoic Customer Week 2022! Join us for a whole week celebrating YOU: our Ezoic publishers! We have some extremely special and exclusive announcements, and we just revealed them in today’s webinar. We have some new tools, products, updates, and resources that are sure to have an enormous impact on you and your site.… Continue reading Ezoic Customer Week 2022 Kickoff Announcements
With the recent launch of Humix, a product currently only available to Ezoic users, countless publishers have seen their videos explode with views and revenue, getting hundreds of thousands (or millions!) of views. We expect this platform to see steady growth over the next few months, and you can jump in on the ground floor… Continue reading 20 Video Ideas That Have Already Earned a Ton of Revenue on Humix
There’s only so much I can say in 5 minutes, so I’ll be brief. I could talk all day, all week about this. This article is all about teaching you some of the most basic SEO strategies to help your site grow, as fast as possible. For more information, download our official Ezoic SEO eBook,… Continue reading A Short, 5 Minute Guide to Great SEO For Your Site
For some publishers, simply placing ads on your site is satisfactory enough. But for others, you prefer more control of the way your site looks overall, and want your ads a bit more polished and stylized. Now, with Ezoic, you can make your ads framed like you see on big sites like the Washington Post… Continue reading Customize Your Ads with Ezoic’s Custom CSS Ad Styling
Flickify (formerly Article to Video) is Ezoic’s video creation tool. Turn your articles into amazing videos in less than a minute! No need for fancy equipment or an expensive production crew — upload your article, select a narrator’s voice, choose your theme, add images or videos you have (or select from our curated library), and… Continue reading Turn Your Written Content into Video with a Click of a Button
Each year, publishers from countless industries can plan on earning a large portion (perhaps even a majority) of their yearly income in Q4 alone. It’s a major opportunity for publishers to earn significant revenue, which is especially necessary given the expected downturn of ad revenue that always occurs at the beginning of Q1. The world… Continue reading 10 Ways to Earn More Website Revenue in Q4 [2022 Edition]
After nearly two years of development and testing, Ezoic finally launched Humix last month. Humix is the first peer-to-peer video sharing network for digital publishers to syndicate video content across relevant websites and/or include engaging videos on their websites. Now that Humix is live, many publishers are seeing immediate benefits of using this tool for… Continue reading How to Integrate Humix Into Your Site (And Start Earning Revenue) In the Next 5 Minutes
When a publisher is starting to see success with their site, it’s natural for them to ask the question: Should I make a new site? It’s understandable; if you start creating multiple sites and they work out, that could mean double the revenue, double the traffic, and double the success with each new site you… Continue reading Which Gives You More Revenue: Creating Multiple Sites, or Expanding Your Current Site?
This article is a guest post by digital marketer Shabbir Noor. My name’s Shabbir Noor. I’m an online marketer, and I’ve spent the past 10 years building websites, getting hundreds of thousands of views, and learning how to be a successful publisher. One of my more recent projects was from a site I worked on… Continue reading How to Do an On-Page SEO Audit in 12 Steps
AI-written content has recently experienced a sharp increase in popularity and interest, partly due to the exponential advances in natural language-generation (NLG) artificial intelligence can produce. In response to the ever-increasing level of website competition and more stringent SEO policies, publishers have begun looking to artificial intelligence to help them write their content — or… Continue reading When To Use (and Not To Use) AI-Written Content For Your Site
Writing is my speciality. I wasn’t always good at it; I wrote my heart out for almost five years and I still never broke more than about 1000 monthly views. But once I started applying the five writing tips below, everything changed. Everything. In six months, I started averaging 300,000 views/month, I had gained over… Continue reading 5 Crucial Writing Tips From a 6-Figure Publisher
Every second of every day, thousands of new headlines are published on the internet. Some are great; most are not. Some get clicks, lots don’t. But a tiny fraction of these are killer headlines that get a lot of clicks. We’re talking hundreds of thousands, millions of clicks. This kind of traffic can lead to… Continue reading Ezoic Guide: How to Write Killer Headlines That Get Clicks
Ezoic just launched one of our most exciting products yet — Humix. Despite it being brand-new, we’re already seeing some incredible results from publishers who have begun using this tool for their site: at the time of this writing, Humix has gained over 30+ million video plays across the network since launching this past month… Continue reading Introducing Humix: How to Use It to Grow Your Site’s Revenue
During Ezoic’s first-ever Content Month, we announced several new Ezoic tools and upgraded features to existing tools specifically created to help your site earn more revenue, get more traffic, and increase your authority and success. Ultimately, Ezoic isn’t just a tool to help you earn more advertisement revenue, it’s a full suite of website tools… Continue reading The Best Ezoic Tools Featured in Content Month
Google has a helpful content update rolling out, and lots of publishers are justifiably nervous about how it might affect their site. What happens if the Google update has a negative effect on their site’s traffic? I’ve spent a lot of time analyzing and assessing this, and I want to share with you some of… Continue reading How To Solve Helpful Content Update Issues Using One Simple Strategy
In this article, I share my story of how I ended up joining Ezoic and how it completely changed the game for me and my blog. I also share with you how joining Ezoic enabled me to have more time to write actual content instead of messing around with website performance and ultimately contributed to… Continue reading How Joining Ezoic Changed the Game for my Blog
Video is the fastest-growing content medium out there and is only becoming more popular. Google will often even rank videos over written content because it has become increasingly evident that many users are beginning to prefer watching a video over reading a blog. If you’re creating video content, you’re likely using one of the more… Continue reading How This Publisher Increased Revenue and Playbacks with Ezoic’s Video Player
A lot of content creators and publishers have been able to create highly lucrative and well-trafficked sites without really using video. There’s plenty of traffic and revenue to earn through written content, and it’s a proven strategy for many successful publishers. However, video content has been heavily favored in the past several years of content… Continue reading Why Using Video Content For Your Site is So Helpful For Revenue and SEO
Videos have been steadily becoming the number-one most-preferred way for audiences to consume content, nearly doubling since 2018 and showing no signs of stopping. Fifty-four percent viewers have revealed they want more video content from their favorite brands and companies. Owning your video content has become more important than ever for content creators who want… Continue reading Why Owning Your Video Content Can Greatly Increase Your Revenue
In digital publishing, we’ve all heard that ubiquitous phrase: content is king. With such a heavy emphasis on creating content, it can sometimes feel that there’s a lack of information about strategizing the distribution of your content. Content distribution is essentially anything a publisher does to expand their content’s reach, whether that be sending it… Continue reading See How These 3 Ezoic Publishers Saw a Huge Increase in Traffic Through Content Distribution
Most publishers can relate to this: you’re thinking about your website, the hours and hours of work you’ve put into building it. Then the thought pops into your head – I can’t go back and look at every line of every piece of content I’ve put out to make sure my links are still correct.… Continue reading Introducing: Broken Links – Ezoic’s New SEO Tool
Video content is only growing in popularity and becoming increasingly important for content creators to invest time and energy into. While creating videos might be daunting to those who are new to it, we have a quick and easy guide for creating great video content. So now that you have your video content, you need… Continue reading How to Own Your Videos and Improve SEO
Your favorite Ezoic tool has seen some upgrades in recent months, some of which you may have noticed and others that probably flew under your radar. We are constantly working to make our products better, but we would like to highlight some specific updates. Below, you’ll get a brief overview of the most recent updates… Continue reading The Newest Updates to Ad Tester
It can feel impossible to fully maximize the effectiveness of your content; there are always more updates, edits, and SEO tweaks you can make. The life of a content creator doesn’t leave much time for fine-tuning every piece of content you make, and it can be easy to simply skip the process to capitalize on… Continue reading How to Capitalize On Your Content and Maximize Your Revenue
Creating an online course is one of the simplest and most lucrative income streams you can attach to your site. They’re a market-proven, popular product that millions of content creators around the world have used to gain enormous revenue and build their authority as a thought leader in their field. But most newer content creators… Continue reading How to Make a Profitable Online Course For Your Website
Building a 6-figure website is difficult. It sure was for me. The first 4.5 years of writing content, I made almost no money. But between years five and seven, I was able to build my content and grow into a 6-figure entrepreneur. There’s a lot of lessons I wish I knew in the beginning; they… Continue reading The 5 Most Surprising Lessons I Learned After Creating a 6-Figure Website
Caching the pages of your website is important because it ensures your users are getting the most-updated version of your pages while also not updating them so often that it loads slowly. Finding the balance between the two for the various pages of your website can be the difference between someone reading your content and… Continue reading How to Improve Cache Hit Rate
Have you ever bought a product online when a really good review recommended it? Have you ever swiped up on an Instagram story of something cool? Chances are, content creators got a cut of that purchase you made. That’s affiliate marketing! It’s an excellent, reliable, and proven income stream you can incorporate into your site.… Continue reading How Publishers Can Use Affiliate Marketing For Their Site
By now, you probably know that video content has become massively popular — in fact, videos have become most consumers’ favorite type of content to see (especially on social media). To ignore this massive trend would be unwise, and to tap into this trend could lead to truly enormous site growth — and site revenue.… Continue reading A Basic Guide to Using Video Content For Your Site
When I first started my niche site journey some six years ago now, I was very wary of ‘over-monetising’ my sites. I stuck exclusively to promoting affiliate offers for a long time, which limited my ability to make money. Eventually, I decided to give advertisements a go. This quickly doubled my income and made it… Continue reading 3 Ways To Make Money From Your Blog That You’ve (Probably) Never Thought Of
Writing an eBook may seem like a daunting task for publishers and website owners. Every month, thousands of people ask Google “how to write an eBook” or “how to sell an eBook,” reflecting the growing interest consumers have with eBooks (some researchers have even measured over 20% annual increases in eBook sales since 2020). Sure,… Continue reading 4 Steps to Turn Your Older Content Into an eBook That Increases Your Site’s Revenue
A Database A Review Website A “Wiki” About a Certain Topic A Q&A Site The exact number of websites on the internet is changing every second, but we do know that it’s well above a billion. Even with all those websites out there, it can seem like there aren’t many types of websites to choose… Continue reading 4 Alternative Types of Websites You Can Monetize if You Don’t Operate a Blog
Every day, humans produce hundreds of millions of pieces of content — countless pictures, comments, blog posts, videos, new social media channels, every second of every day. It’s a never-ending process fueled by algorithms and human interaction, and the Internet is only getting more saturated. This has led many content creators to begin asking themselves:… Continue reading Should an AI Write Your Content For Your Site?
Freelancers provide a massive ROI When you’re first starting to grow your website, you usually have to do everything yourself: the website setup, the content creation, the graphic designs, the social media channels, even the more difficult tasks like coding and programming. When I first started out as a blogger, I couldn’t afford freelancers to… Continue reading How to Find and Use Freelancers to Help You Grow Your Site
Start a podcast for your site Podcasting has become one of the premiere and most-consumed forms of content. As some recent research by Statista revealed, back in 2006 only 22 percent of the adult population in the United States was aware of podcasting. By 2021, this figure had risen to 78 percent. This number has… Continue reading A Quick Guide to Use Podcasting to Boost Your Traffic, Revenue, and Authority
Access to your audience’s email inbox is one of the most intimate communications possible. It’s the gold standard for followers. If you can create an email newsletter that people want to read — they’ll read it. According to Optin Monster, “99% of email users check their inbox every day, with some checking 20 times a… Continue reading How to Create an Email Newsletter That Increases Your Site’s Revenue
Dave Menz is a multi-millionaire entrepreneur with a bit of an unusual business structure: he runs and operates several laundromats in his city complete with services, products, and profitable websites. He wasn’t even that interested in the industry; it’s a blue collar, low-key business that doesn’t have a lot of excitement or notoriety. “Laundromats are… Continue reading 3-Step Guide for Digital Publishers to Create A Profitable Website
There are thousands of news outlets producing millions of news stories, republishing press releases, even recycling old content to try and win the eyeball war. Pick any topic and there are hundreds of channels you could be tracking to stay up on industry news, the latest research, and hot rumors and products. Whether you’re running… Continue reading How to Know What’s Worth it When it Comes to Website, Content and Ad Trends
Ezoic’s recent Levels program has brought enormous benefits to publishers large and small alike — an expanded support ticket system, 1-to-1 consulting, training resources, access to grant funding, and more. Before, publishers weren’t able to access many important benefits and resources, especially when publishers were just starting out. Now, any publisher from any level has… Continue reading How This Publisher Saw a 3826% Increase in Traffic Using Ezoic’s New Levels Resources
Every day, countless publishers are making far less money each day than they could by not maximizing their incoming revenue. One of the biggest reasons for this lack of income is not fully understanding mediation revenue and not connecting it to your website. We’ll cover exactly what mediation revenue is in more detail below, but… Continue reading What is Mediation and How Can It Help Your Website Revenue?
Back in college, I still remember how difficult it was to write those lengthy essays in literature class…it might’ve taken me a week to write a three-page paper! But after I graduated college and started blogging, I was amazed at how much faster I could write. I was able to write a 1500-word article in… Continue reading The 3 Main Content Strategies For Publishers Based On Your Personality
Hi there! My name’s Anthony Moore, I’m the new Digital Content Manager here at Ezoic. Here, I’ll show you how I’ll be helping you increase your traffic, boost your revenue, and be a more successful publisher through Ezoic — because I’m a publisher myself. I’ve experienced massive success as a publisher; I’ve gotten millions of… Continue reading Meet Anthony Moore: Ezoic’s Newest In-House Publishing Expert
Website revenue can be boosted in countless ways — advertisements, products/services, affiliates, sponsored posts, etc. But what about off-website revenue? Where else can you post your content and get traffic, subscribers, and revenue? There are a few options that most website owners can use to see a dramatic boost in these key metrics. Below are… Continue reading Medium, Quora, LinkedIn, and Publications: Which One is Best For Your Website?
Before I built my email list, I was stuck as a blogger. After nearly five years of hard work and creating content each week, here’s what I had to show for it: I was making no money I still had less than 1,000 views a month No real plan for making a living as a… Continue reading A Quick Guide for Ezoic Publishers To Build and Monetize Their Email List
Google boasts more than 90% of all search engine queries. They’re extremely good at showing their users great content at lightning speeds. This wasn’t always the case, though — even as recent as 2011, black hat SEO marketers were still successfully manipulating Google and abusing SEO topics through content farms and rampant plagiarism. But in… Continue reading Tag Tester 101: A Guide to Finding Top-Ranking SEO Topics For Your Website
Giving your readers more reasons to come back to your site doesn’t always mean writing brand-new articles. In fact, sometimes it’s better for your SEO, traffic, and revenue streams to simply optimize your existing content. Every year, the number of publishers who choose to update their existing content increases. The result? These bloggers that augment… Continue reading Improve Rankings for Older Content on Your Site
Every day, thousands of successful website owners are leaving money on the table. Through tools like Ezoic, you can earn far more website revenue than most website owners in terms of ad revenue. But content creators of every kind have been making billions (yes, billions) of dollars over the years in several proven, viable, non-ad-related… Continue reading 5 Best Non-Ad-Related Ways to Achieve an Extra $3000/Month in Website Revenue
In a business as complex (and competitive) as digital publishing, it’s natural to seek benchmarks to gauge your success. One of the most common questions we get from publishers, especially those starting out, is about how much money they should be earning from their website. While we understand why publishers are asking that question, the… Continue reading How Much Revenue Should My Blog Be Earning?
For far too long, the narrative surrounding digital publishing has been that in order to perform well and rank high, your site must be raking in enormous amounts of traffic or feature huge amounts of content. But this simply isn’t true anymore. Sites of all sizes have a plethora of new strategies at their disposal… Continue reading Video: How To Plan Your Content In A Way That Will Build Topical Authority
Using third-party cookies to target consumers has been the advertising norm for years now. By now, most publishers have probably heard that third-party cookies will be disappearing sometime in the next year or so due to privacy concerns. There are some big players in the mix that have led the charge in abandoning third-party cookies.… Continue reading How Do Disappearing Third-Party Cookies Affect Ezoic and Its Publishers?
When you’ve spent the last several years working hard on your website, producing great content, and getting a lot of traffic, the last thing you want is for those hard-earned viewers to forget about you. Creating a successful and profitable website isn’t easy, but increasing your return visitor rate (and therefore increasing your website revenue)… Continue reading How to Increase Visitor Return Rate To Your Website
When it comes to increasing your traffic (and by extension, your revenue), there are many routes you can take. Many of these strategies require a full team, a lot of time, and plenty of dedication to execute. However, the following strategy allows you to work smarter, not harder. While creating and producing more original content… Continue reading VIDEO: How to Get More Traffic (And Make More Money) From Your Existing Posts
When a customer has a slow experience at a restaurant, it can result in poor reviews and lower overall customer satisfaction. Slower site speed is very similar in that way as it can affect search engine rankings and user experience. Website speed refers to how fast a web page loads in a browser. A poor-performing… Continue reading Learn Easiest Ways to Improve Site Speed
