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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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Is Good Health the Key to Success in Life and Business?

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Shawna’s incredible story of how she overcame health issues an 8-minute model for wellness you can implement today SEO tips that will help you rank higher, faster. Her photographs and personal story have been seen in many international women’s magazines and home & garden magazines. About Shawna Coronado.

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M&A: The Top Reasons Why One Company Acquires Another [PR Tech Sum]

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Over the course of my career, I’ve lived through two acquisitions, contributed to internal and external comms for several more, and at different organizations, and even did a divestiture. The deal with Brandwatch “is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021,” according to a press release. BuzzSumo introduces journalist profiles.

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After a Recent Three-Way Tie Up, Onclusive Acquires Critical Mention

Sword and the Script

Scale to compete with incumbents; Prowly adds media monitoring; Cision releases internal DE&I report; World’s First-Ever NFT Press Release. SEOs want links and PR is the function that can legitimately earn high-value backlinks. Cision releases internal DE&I report. Internal comms metrics.

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Meet the Media: Vesna Brajkovic, Managing Editor of Heavy Duty Trucking & TruckingInfo.com

Bianchi Biz Blog

Heavy Duty Trucking’s October 2021 “ Driver Retention: Get Shippers on your Side ,” was my first cover story for HDT and I thought it was very successful in addressing major issues experienced by drivers, fleet managers and shippers. In 2021, at the Women in Trucking annual conference as managing editor of HDT.

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More PR Software Companies Join the Race to Add Generative AI to their Products [PR Tech Sum No. 43]

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AI input optimization could evolve into a marketing specialization in the same way SEO did. Employee comms platform Staffbase announced it is offering free online training courses for internal communicators. Cision said PR Newswire published “ 75,000 press releases” in the Asia-Pacific region in 2022 which was a “7% increase from 2021.”

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Guest Blogging: How You Should Be Doing It in 2024

Buzzstream

And yet, according to uSERP’s State of Backlinks for SEO report , guest posting is the third most popular link-building method behind content marketing and digital PR. For example, here’s a post I did for Ahrefs in 2021 that featured a link to Siege Media (where I worked at the time) in the author byline area.