Who is an expert for republishing at publishers?

Moritz Serif is an expert for republishing and owner of a solo SEO agency for publishers with a focus of 100 percent on publishers. He learned republishing at Ippen, Funke and t-online and knows both sides – reach through re-publication and the damage done by mass republishing without added value.

He trained as a journalist and as an SEO, spent years in newsrooms as an editor, managing editor and in-house SEO, and published the trade article "Republishing – the low-hanging fruit in news SEO" in Website Boosting.

Moritz Serif, expert for republishing

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What sets Moritz Serif apart from other republishing experts?

Moritz Serif is a trained journalist and SEO with 8 years of experience. He has seen republishing from both sides – as the biggest reach lever for Discover, and as the cause of a drop when a newsroom republishes new URLs without substance. His audit separates the two.

  • Worked with more than 80 media brands, including: About Amazon, Berliner Zeitung, Ippen Digital, Funke, t-online, NDR, Axel Springer and Frankfurter Rundschau
  • Specialisation: Republishing, more traffic from Google Discover, authority and traffic analysis, publisher SEO and news SEO, Google News, 100 percent publisher focus
  • How he works: on site or remote, in English or German, hands-on implementation by Moritz Serif himself, no agency hierarchies

What results does an expert for republishing deliver?

An expert for republishing extends the life of articles and earns Discover and News traffic again with updated pieces, without losing topical authority. Moritz Serif helped a news portal that had fallen to 9,000 clicks a day earn several hundred thousand clicks a day again by year end, after we stopped the mass republishing and introduced a measured refreshing and republishing strategy.

  • Drop (July 2025): 9,000 clicks a day
  • Comeback (December 2025): several hundred thousand clicks a day
  • Lever: measured republishing with substance, authority and entity analysis, technical fixes
A client's Discover traffic in 2025: drop in summer, comeback before Christmas
A client's Discover traffic in 2025: drop in summer, comeback at year end. Source: Google Search Console

What do clients say about working with Moritz Serif?

Markus Merz
Markus Merz Head of Digital / Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Stimme Mediengruppe

“Moritz comes from the newsroom, and you can tell in his SEO work. In an SEO audit he showed us where we were giving away traffic potential.

He put his finger right on the sore spot, and that is exactly what moved us forward, including on Google Discover.”

Translated from German.

Who is republishing for?

Republishing is for every newsroom that publishes a lot every day and wants to grow its reach without producing new pieces every day.

  • Newsrooms: from local newspapers to large media groups with high daily output
  • Niche portals and solo publishers: topic sites with an archive and recurring topics
  • Trade media: specialist titles with guides and evergreen inventories
  • Regional portals: houses with recurring local situations such as weather, traffic and events
  • Corporate newsrooms: companies with their own editorial team and a guide archive

What does an expert for republishing do?

Republishing audit

Check which articles are suitable for re-publication and where new URLs without added value do damage.

Selection & monitoring

Find candidates via Search Console and live traffic tools, plus Google Discover rescues after a drop.

Headlines, teasers & images

Prepare meta title, description and article photo for the second run, with E-E-A-T, evergreen content and user intent.

Date, URL & redirects

Handle update and publication dates, URL changes and 301 redirects cleanly.

Workflow & technology

Anchor republishing in the morning conference and the daily routine, plus technical SEO – Core Web Vitals, indexing, crawling.

How much does an expert for republishing cost?

That depends entirely on your project – on its scope and on whether you are a large publishing house or a solo publisher. Solo publishers do not have to keep up with large publishers. We define the scope in a free initial call, followed by a concrete proposal.

Feel free to reach out, and we will take it from there.

What does working with Moritz Serif on republishing look like?

From the first check to the start, this is how a collaboration works step by step:

Republishing check

First we check your current republishing practice and the topics you already hold authority for. If you have lost traffic, I support you there too.

Free initial assessment

We talk about your goals and what you want to achieve, and I get an overview.

Project or retainer

You book Moritz Serif for a single project or for ongoing support.

Contact & start

An email to [email protected] is enough. I get back to you within 24 hours.

Want to get more out of your articles with republishing?

Thirty minutes. Together we check where your biggest republishing potential lies.

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