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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. Side note: I don’t think “Agility” existed as it does today until 2015. In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. Semrush acquires the popular SEO website Backlinko.

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How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan

Shift Communications

How do you use the data to make changes in your business and marketing that are meaningful in 2015? When you’re looking at the data for 2014 in order to formulate ideas for 2015, start by looking for outliers. Suppose you’re trying to formulate a 2015 SEO strategy. Can this be repeated? Can this be repeated?

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Landing Page, SEO and Blog Secrets: An Interview with Clint Danks of ThinkSEM

MaccaPR

If the world of SEO, inbound marketing, optimized content and landing pages thrills you as a marketer, then the following interview with Clint Danks is going to be your cup of Lipton. based Internet marketing agency that caught our eye with its savvy pay-per-click advertising management, Web development and digital design services.

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State of Social Media Q4 2015: Half of Facebook Users Go Mobile Only

Shift Communications

The largest social network in the world – practically a planet unto itself – released its Q4 and 2015 calendar earnings. Let’s see how Facebook closed out 2015. Consider how much money, time, and effort you’ve invested over the years in SEO to “reach page 1” in Google’s search results.

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Where have all the blogrolls gone?

Stephen Waddington

The traffic to this blog has declined from a peak of 12,000 unique visitors per month in 2015 to around two-thirds that number today. The link between blog content and SEO is well established. My own agency Metia uses a blog to share the expertise of practitioners and our work. But SEO-fuelled blogging is a long term game.

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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. Cision acquired PR Newswire in 2015 for $841 million.

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The Top PR Trends For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

According to The Holmes Report, only 27% of agency leaders responding to the survey think the term “public relations” will clearly and adequately describe the work they do by the year 2020. According to a 2015 Chief Communications Officer survey by Korn Ferry , CCOs in the U.S. PR and SEO are joined. The takeaway for PRs?

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