The right question isn't whether SEO is dead or not. The right question is whether it's a good investment of time or money. For small publishers, the answer is no. Are there better opportunities? Yes. What are they? Facebook, Pinterest, Email.

Choose the right article to promote. Here's the step-by-step process to find it: 1. Log into your Strevio account, select the timeline for the last 2 weeks, and sort your best-performing posts by number of clicks. 2. Check the CTR for those posts. It's a really important metric.We look for a CTR of 5%+ to make sure the arbitrage works. 3. Visit your Mediavine/Raptive dashboard and review the RPM of these posts. It needs to be at least $30 to be effective. The higher, the better.

I attended the Mediavine Premiere Retreat conference in Mexico, and here are my 8 key takeaways: 1. The Mediavine Premiere Retreat is by far the best conference or meetup I've ever attended. I've been to many marketing and SEO conferences around the world, but none compare to the value, knowledge, and fun of this one. A key factor is that to be invited, you need to own at least one website on Mediavine making at least $500K/year, with many earning much more. I met people there making up to $5M/year on Mediavine. The attendees are incredibly smart and successful in their own ways, offering a wealth of learning opportunities from their stories and business strategies. 2. Most attendees consider themselves publishers rather than SEO geeks, yet they're still crushing in search traffic. They see their operations as businesses and are not worried about traffic sources, often having multiple and looking to expand them. 3. I was surprised by the number of people successfully leveraging Google Discover and Pinterest, with some getting between 1-10M visits from these two sources alone. Although I've had huge success with Pinterest, Google Discover was new to me, and I learned a lot about it at the conference. 4. Email marketing is seen as the future, and everyone is eager to adopt it. I've known @FatStacksBlog for a few years online, but meeting him in person at the conference was a pleasure. I learned so much about email marketing from him. Jon is as cool in person as he is online. 5. Almost nobody is using AI to create content, and many have a no-AI policy. While everyone is familiar with AI and uses it for personal tasks, it's not being used to create content for their main sites, though some are experimenting with it on other websites. 6. The openness at the conference was refreshing. Unlike other conferences where people are secretive about their websites and niches, here, everyone's website name was on their badge, and they were open to sharing and helping. It's rare to see such a lack of fear of competition, and it was nice to witness. 7. A few people recognized me from my online presence, which was surreal. Hearing how they've achieved great success partly due to my advice and boosting their income with Facebook traffic, made me incredibly proud. One individual, (Hey Matthew!), went from 0 to $30K in 3 months thanks to the strategies I share online and in my list. 8. The conference itself was uniquely organized, with the official part lasting only about 4 hours over three days, unlike the boring 8-hour speech days at other conferences. Mediavine shared their best insights in these few hours, including a Q&A session. The informal setup meant you could easily approach anyone during meals or parties. Learning wasn't limited to the conference room; much of it happened while chilling on the beach and drinking cocktails. One night, I hung out with @JNowatschin and Chris, sharing stories and laughing until I cried. Beyond everything else, it's moments like these that are truly priceless. It was incredibly fun. Being my first trip to Mexico, I can confidently say, Mexico is amazing!