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What Your Press Release Analytics Are Really Telling You About Your PR

Cision

They either think that by publishing it, top-tier journalists will see it and instantly want to write about them. It’s easy to get caught up in press release analytics as a way to make certain assumptions about what a press release is doing, but I want to clear the air so that you really understand how it works for you.

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Measurement and Analytics a Hot PR Skill

The Proactive Report

The TEKsystems report on the Top Digital Skills CMOs are looking for in 2018 has analytics top of the list. In a recent post PR News stated “Data analytics and insights will be more valuable on your resume than “people skills” or great writing.”

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How to Write SEO-Driven Content That Customers (And Search Engines) Love

Contently - Strategy

But the problem (probably) isn’t the writing. We write this content to cast a broad net over hundreds or even thousands of people, knowing that only a small fraction of those we lure in are even in the market to buy what we sell. In other words, we are writing content to capture attention from the wrong eyeballs.

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12 Questions You Should Ask Google Analytics Every Month

PR 20/20

G oogle Analytics can capture more than 360 metrics and more than 260 dimensions. Long story short, you can run thousands of reports in Google Analytics to evaluate the strength of your marketing program, particularly your website. Questions to Ask of Your Google Analytics Data. What were the top traffic-driving channels?

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Digital PR Measurement Lessons from News Analytics

The Proactive Report

News outlets are paying attention to analytics in an effort to learn more about what their audiences read and watch – and why. News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API.

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Digital PR Measurement Lessons from News Analytics

The Proactive Report

News outlets are paying attention to analytics in an effort to learn more about what their audiences read and watch – and why. News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API.

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How Google Analytics Can Improve Your PR Metrics

Cision

I started writing this piece with the intention of sharing “best practices” for using Google Analytics to measure PR. Google Analytics without an understanding of its mechanisms is useless hammer. The first question you might have before we dive into Google Analytics is “how much of GA is free?”

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