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7 Skills PR Teams Can’t Do Without

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

While traditionally PR work consisted of press releases, pitching, and occasional damage control, today’s PR teams must have a diverse digital skill set, including SEO strategy, social media savvy, data analysis and more. The core skills we need as PR professionals have also changed. Other skills and attributes are more timeless.

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150+ Guest Posting Sites That Will Actually Build Traffic (Analysis)

Buzzstream

In the early days of Google, guest posting was seen as a legitimate SEO strategy, and Google didn’t publicly penalize it. We looked for sites with clear signals that they accepted guest posts, such as post titles and URLs with the words “contribute” or “write for us.”

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One IPO, One M&A and the Best Media Monitoring Solutions for 2021 [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

SEMrush is better known for its SEO tools, but it moved into PR last year with the acquisition of Prowly in 2020. One of the things SEO tools can do, that most media monitoring solutions cannot, is detect backlinks. SEMrush has had an impressive streak in the SEO space. million of revenues, improving on 2019’s $10.2

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40+ Blogs Marketers Should Be Following

PR 20/20

Beyond content, CMI does break it down into other areas, like SEO, social, and measurement. Ann Handley , the author of Everybody Writes , heads up content at ‘Profs. Buffer authors do their research, writing in-depth posts with ample resources to back up their intelligence. For Social Media, we like….

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The Longstanding Value of a Backlink for Digitally Savvy PR

Sword and the Script

Non-key word anchor text: Sword and the Script Media writes about public relations. I like to use domain authority , which was invented by an SEO software company called Moz. Here are some publications and DA numbers at the time of this writing: The Wall Street Journal : 94. 2) Backlinks are third-party validation.

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Letter from Grand Central Rail

Stephen Waddington

Podcasting is back in vogue, using LinkedIn effectively, Tortoise slow journalism project, Netflix Fyre documentary, unreasonable briefs, a new AI marketing book and dates for PRFest. This week I’m writing to you on my iPhone on a Grand Central Rail train between London and York. It’s a useful coaching tool. ??

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Earned Media: 3 PR Studies Quantifying the Impact of Media Relations on Sales [UML]

Sword and the Script

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. In reading through it, I had several points worth making here.

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