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As publishers, our email reputation and deliverability is critical. Google Postmaster Tools is a free tool that any publisher can use to see how well they are doing at delivering email to Gmail and Google Workspace users. Think of it like Google Search Console, but for email. It provides insights into email performance, sender reputation, and potential deliverability issues. Google Postmaster Tools provides insight into your:

• Sp...

In this week's session of High Value Publishing, we're shifting focus from our usual digital strategies to reflect on what lies ahead for media companies in 2024 including:

• The enforcement of stronger email authentication by Google and Yahoo.
• The removal of third-party cookies, particularly in Google Chrome.
• The integration of Artificial Intelligence into search engines.
• Google's focus on EEAT (Experience, Expertise,...

For publishers, a podcast can be more than just an audio format. It can be a convenient way for readers to discover and follow your content, it can drive people back to your website, and eventually it can be a new revenue stream once you reach some scale.

But producing daily or weekly podcast episodes can be resource-intensive and expensive. This is where the concept of a fully AI-generated podcast comes in. By creatively combining ...

In this High Value Publishing session, we'll discuss strategies for publishers to simplify their digital advertising models in order to drive more revenue, including:

• Consolidating underperforming ad products.
• Limiting inventory / controlling supply and demand.
• Delivering differentiated value to advertisers.
• Having larger ad placements but fewer of them.
• Properly pricing products based on value delivered.

You'll see ex...

SmartNews is a rapidly growing news aggregator rivaling Google News and Apple News in usage. As such it can be an important part of an overall content distribution strategy for publishers.

But publishers need to go in with their eyes wide open before agreeing to work with SmartNews.

In this High Value Publishing session, Eric Shanfelt shows publishers how SmartNews pitches themselves to publishers, but how publisher content is used p...

Email newsletter subject lines and preheader text play a pivotal role in increasing newsletter open rates and, in turn, ad impressions, website traffic, and overall engagement with your audience.

Despite their importance, many publishers fail to utilize the subject line and preheader text effectively. Common mistakes include overly long subject lines, irrelevant or missing preheader text, and the inclusion of unnecessary elements su...

Is Google good or bad for publishers? A Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against Google is bringing this question to the forefront.

In this High Value Publishing session, Eric Shanfelt and his guest, Kenny Katzgrau of Broadstreet Ads, delve into the implications of the lawsuit and how publishers should best interact with Google. The conversation stems from a recent subpoena request by Google and the Department of Justice conc...

Would you like to develop a 6-digit reader revenue stream without launching a paywall? If so, look no further than The Berkshire Edge, a small, regional publication in Massachusetts.

A couple of years ago, The Berkshire Edge launched an online membership that was donation only ... no paywall. They now have over 1,600 members approaching $120,000 per year in donation revenue.

David Walsh with Web Publisher PRO join...

Did you know that Google Analytics is misleading you?

If you look at analytics regularly, you see a lot of web traffic coming from the Direct source.
Most publishers think this represents people who directly type in their website URL. But it doesn't.
Up to 90% of "direct" traffic is actually "unknown". Google Analytics doesn't know the actual source, so it classifies unknown as direct ...

Google Search Console is the key to understanding how Google sees your website and how get more traffic from search.

However, it is amazing how many publishers don't have Google Search Console set up, don't know how to use it, or don't use it regularly.

Let's change that! Learn how Google Search Console works and how you can use it to improve our visibility in search and grow your website traff...

Cobranded social media ads are a strong, 6-digit revenue stream that most publishers haven't tapped into yet. It's not difficult to implement and you only need a few social media followers to do it.

With cobranded social media, you sell advertisers the ability to reach your audience through your Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn accounts. This gives you a unique selling proposition that no advertiser or agency can ...

Gone are the days of utilizing our email deployment system solely as a distribution platform. To stay competitive as media companies, we must incorporate muti-channel communication (broadcast email, automated 1:1 emails, text messages, website messages, chat, snail mail and more) ... and our email systems must aggregate reader data and handle marketing automation. Using automations to trigger activities and tasks to improve respons...

As publishers look for answers to declining digital media sales, the answer is sometimes not found in what they are selling but how they are going about selling it.

During this session we talk about some of the most common mistakes publishers make in their approach to selling digital media. From trying to sell too many programs, using digital programs as incentives, to losing the energy and excitement following a new progr...

Watch as we take an in-depth analysis – on-the-fly – at the website of Los Angeles Magazine, a consumer city magazine. We'll identify what they're doing well and what they could improve upon.

In the analysis, we'll look at the design of the site to see how effective it is for content, advertising and audience development ... both for desktop and mobile devices. We'll also do some search engine optimization (SEO) ...

In this High Value Publishing session, we’ll go over the right way for publishers to set up Facebook Business Manager and how it relates to the new Meta Business Suite.

To be honest, most publishers haven’t set up Facebook Business Manager properly and it’s hurting their business. And some publishers don’t even have a business manager account.

In this session you’ll learn

• Why you should still use Facebook Busin...

Sponsored emails are a big revenue generator for publishers. But the creative advertisers send us are usually horrible.

From single big images, to ultra complex HTML emails, advertisers and agencies often send creatives that:

• Don’t work on mobile devices.
• Aren’t compatible with popular email clients.
• Don’t solicit the kind of response that they should.

In this High Value Publishing session, I’ll show you a simple sponsored...

On July 1, 2023, Google will replace the current version of Google Analytics (also called Universal Analytics) with Google Analytics 4 (GA4). But I'm counseling all publishers to implement GA4 by July 1 of this year.

In just over a year from now, Google will no longer feed data from our websites into the current Google Universal Analytics And they will not bring over any data from the old Google Analytics into Google Analytics ...

Are you considering a paywall or registration wall for your website? Are you having problems getting the kind of results you want from your paywall / regwall?

My guest during this High Value Publishing session is Peter Ericson, founder of Leaky Paywall and host of the Paywall Podcast. During this session, Peter and I talk about the keys to a successful paywall for publishers, hard versus metered paywalls, and the biggest mistakes we...