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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results. Image Source: [link].

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” Identifying a PR crisis. Speed is crucial to crisis management.

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Brand crisis research: vaccine mandates, Striketober, & misinformation

NewsWhip

The research shows that companies managing a brand crisis often have an opportunity to get ahead of the most damaging narratives before becoming immortalized in public opinion. Nicholson explains that in 2016 “outright false stories were going viral” and now it has become harder to identify.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Beyond PR

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results. Image Source: [link].

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Facebook PR Exposed

Flatiron Communications

It said little about fake accounts or the organic posts created by Russian trolls that had gone viral on Facebook, disclosing only that Russian agents had spent roughly $100,000?—?a The revelations may be ‘the straw that breaks the camel’s back,’ said Rishad Tobaccowala, chief growth officer for the Publicis Groupe.

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The Biggest PR Disasters Of 2016

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

2016 had plenty of the kind of the kinds of news-making crises that public relations people dread. The communications lessons, on the other hand, will be covered in crisis management classes for many years. swim team star Ryan Lochte was a loser when it came to his behavior at the 2016 Olympics. Lochte loses luster.

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