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Sorry, Press Releases Do Not Help Your SEO Anymore

Sword and the Script

Lately, I’ve noticed several opinion pieces circulating in blogs espousing the SEO benefits of press releases. However, there is virtually no SEO benefit to press releases , and there hasn’t been in a long time. To be clear, there are still plenty of good reasons to use a press release, but SEO isn’t one of them anymore.

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Why Every Business Owner Needs to Know a Little Something about SEO

Polaris

If you don’t, your company could be burned, as mine was when Google’s Penguin update came along in 2012. In April 2012, Google introduced its Penguin algorithm update as part of its on-going effort to combat web spam and improve search results for users. But it had several advantages other than SEO. I enjoy writing.

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Ranking by proxy: the hidden SEO value of great online press coverage

The Resolution Blog

There is a latent assumption (certainly in the PR world) that SEO is all about getting your own content to rank well in Google. Do you quadruple your SEO budget? This is where thinking about online press coverage with an SEO mindset can pay dividends. But of course, we don't live in an ideal world. Or do you give up?

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The PR industry and SEO no longer live in two separate worlds. A strong reason for PR pros to start concentrating more on SEO. In the advanced digital landscape and a mobile-first world, digital PR is already closely integrated with SEO. A lot of the websites did so by bulk link-buying or getting them via link networks.

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Digital PR and the Google Penguin

The Proactive Report

PR pros are not all convinced that SEO is a skill they need to master. However, as content marketing gains popularity,SEO becomes more and more important. So yes, SEO has become an important PR skill. Content Marketing Online PR digital PR google online PR Penguin SEO' Content marketing isn’t a new idea for PR.

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How to Boost Your Reputation on Google

Cision

She dominated SEO (search engine optimization) on the word “Christina.” In 2012, I responded to a query that said, “Do you have a product you want to take to the next level (national television).” Dictate Your Digital Footprint Destiny. ” She had all the “Google-Juice.”

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How Guest Posting Should Be Done In 2020

Buzzstream

It was the classic process with SEOs – we find a technique that works very well to help us meet our objectives, we then scale it to hell and reap the rewards. . Unfortunately, as many of us know, a thing called Penguin came along in 2012 and aggressively targeted SEO techniques which were designed to manipulate search results.

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