Does Hydro Online conflict with Journey?

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Arnav Sharma

August 05, 2024 02:55

Does MV Journey conflict with Hydro | Monetize Website Traffic & App Users? 

I am running the Hydro Online scripts along with MV Journey, and I see a difference between the GA4 stats and have low earnings. Hence, can someone please look at my blog/site and advise if there are conflicts with Hydro Online and MV Journey? Or its normal at this stage. 

Also, do you have any recommendations on how to improve earnings? Otherwise, I will wait 30 days to pass. :)

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  • Journey Support Team

  August 05, 2024 14:15

  Hi Arnav Sharma ! We're not familiar with Hydro, but as long as it isn't another programmatic advertising platform, it should be fine to run. That said, since we haven't worked with it in the past, we wouldn't be able to say if it's impacting earnings. If it's doing anything that advertisers could perceive as unsafe or suspect for users, it could result in lower spending. If you're worried about it having an impact, you could test it out by disabling it for a week or two to see what difference it makes.

  As for improving earnings, we have an article that should help here. Some of the settings mentioned are specific to Mediavine, but the general advice about formatting content can be implemented on any site!

  Thanks!
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  Arnav Sharma

  August 05, 2024 23:45

  Thanks for that. I believe we can’t access AD settings and how ads are displayed. I don’t see anything in the Grow dashboard about controlling ads—the link shared is more about MV. Is there any chance you could check and advise if everything is working as expected or if there are any changes I need to make?  

   

   

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  • Journey Support Team

  August 06, 2024 11:23

  Arnav Sharma Everything on your site is running as expected – the ads and the ad script look good. The only thing I noticed is the Grow script is being optimized in WP Rocket. This shouldn't cause any issues, but to be on the safe side, here's an article on how to exclude the Grow script from being optimized.

  The parts of the article that would be relevant for Journey users are the following:

  There are THREE things you can do to make your content more ad friendly, and at the same time, SEO friendly:

  1. Write more. 
  2. Break that writing up into shorter, more frequent paragraphs.
  3. Increase your font size and line height spacing to be at least 18px tall and 1.6px respectively.

  Writing more content, in shorter paragraphs, does the following:

  • Makes Google happy by giving them more content to read.
  • Makes readers happy with easier to read content.
  • Gives you more screenviews to allow more in-content ads within your content.
  • Gives your sticky sidebar ad the best possible performance by making your content is as "tall" as possible. 

  Other Top Tips:

  • Make sure there is no content below your "most valuable content" card - readers rarely scroll that far, and if you're loading something like a related posts plugin that adds to your pageload time, that's not worth having. 
  • Include vertical images where possible. They're taller, adding more pixel height to your overall post, and readers/Pinterest seem to prefer them. 
  • Don't hide your featured Pin. Put it above your most valuable content. This lengthens the post, puts the pin where readers are likely to see it, and quite honestly, readers are more likely to pin something they actually see, rather than something that only shows up if they choose to pin. 
  • Skip the pagebuilders. The HTML they output is terrible, causing potential SEO issues, and definite ad issues. You can read this help article on Why Post and Page Builders Can Be Bad For Ad Performance to get more details.

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  Arnav Sharma

  August 06, 2024 23:16

  Thanks, I have excluded the grow script 

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