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This Semrush Acquisition of Backlinko hits PR, SEO and Content Marketing Trifecta [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

SEO vendor that dabbles in PR technology buys an audience and adds an influencer to their team. In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. There was even an SEO angle: in its heyday, HARO was a backlink magnet and from high-quality new sites. Case in point?

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Look up, don’t look down. Think ‘reputation in the round’

PR in High Definition

I wish I’d known that in 2002 but it was still a useful learning in 2012. Now social, SEO, content marketing, employer branding and other reputation-building tactics are becoming more impactful, and it’s clear that only having a media relations strategy simply will not cut it. Measure your share. Think ‘more than media’.

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Kpop Lessons: Handling Defamation Through Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Earlier this year, Korean netizens questioned the academic credentials of musician Tablo , pen name Daniel Armand Lee, who graduated from Stanford University in 2002. While some individuals do good deeds in the name of Kpop artists, others spread defamatory comments about them. Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5