Can you put Subscribe with Google on your site and make money? Yes – if you have the right content. What’s the right content? Let’s dig in: Unique Content Is Critical Few people are going to pay for something they can easily get somewhere else for free. What you offer … Read more
Ah, AMP… Accelerated Mobile Pages… what a sordid history. Launched in 2015 and taking the internet by storm, AMP was thought to be the answer for a faster web experience. The idea was that sites would use a simpler set of standards designed specifically for mobile users. Google would then … Read more
You set up a paywall on your site using Subscribe with Google (SwG). When a reader subscribes, Google manages access. As long as the reader is logged into their Google account, Google let’s them pass through the paywall seamlessly. You have access to the subscribers name, email address, status, payment … Read more
Tired of publishing crap? No offense intended, we’ve all been there. You’re stuck in a cycle of trying to find keywords that you can rank for and spending hours investigating what might be a hit. You find something and then have to write a story on it, even though you … Read more
I missed when exactly they posted these, but sometime over the last two weeks Google published the new Subscribe with Google (SwG) Content Policies. Google has the policies divided into two sections – ‘user’ and ‘content’ – which seems like an odd way to do it. When they say ‘user’, … Read more
You subscribed to a website using Subscribe with Google (SwG) and want to cancel or request a refund. Or you’re a publisher that needs to cancel a subscription or provide a refund. How do you go about it? Let’s start from the subscriber perspective. Subscriber: I Need to Cancel my … Read more
Let’s take a look at what it’s like to subscribe or contribute using Subscribe with Google from the perspective of one of your readers. The reader experience It starts at the subscription or contribution prompt. The background is greyed out and the prompt appears over the content. The prompt lists … Read more
On Oct 31, 2023, Google announced that their Reader Revenue Manager (RRM) for publishers and Subscribe with Google (SwG) for website subscribers is now available in 47 countries. When originally launched earlier this year, the RRM and SwG were only available in the US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico & Argentina. The … Read more
Subscribe with Google is Google’s reader revenue solution. It allows web publishers to sell subscriptions to their content or accept contributions through Google’s payment system, Google Pay. Let’s dig into the details Reader revenue is having your readers financially support your site through subscriptions and contributions. Subscribe with Google is an … Read more