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PRCA Digital PR and Communications Report: "Digital PR moves fast"

Stephen Waddington

In the past 12 months digital PR has seen investment in content and paid social media but cuts in SEO and social listening. It’s indicative of the fact that outside of customer service social media engagement has largely become a paid activity. Budgets for monitoring and listening to customers have fallen by 9% this year.

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New Rules That Every PR Person Should Know

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

A PR agency employee starting in the business today will be creating programs, telling stories, and reporting to clients in ways very different from just a few years ago, in part due to the rise of digital technology and the blurring of lines between paid, earned, and owned media. PR today is about SEO. billion, up from $13.5

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What Are the Various HubSpot Hubs and Which Do I Need?

PR 20/20

The platform is now a comprehensive suite of tools and services to help businesses with their marketing, sales, customer service, and operations. It’s ultimately designed to enable businesses to attract, engage, and delight customers throughout their buyer's journey. More on CMS Hub below. ? Growth-focused organizations.

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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. PR and SEO are joined. ” Penguin penalized shady backlinks, keyword stuffing, and other black-hat SEO strategies in favor of quality content.

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40+ Blogs Marketers Should Be Following

PR 20/20

Beyond content, CMI does break it down into other areas, like SEO, social, and measurement. Search Engine Journal ( @SEJournal ): Covers SEO and search engines, plus content marketing, social media, paid search and entrepreneurial advice. Check out (and follow) Moz’s list, Most Influential SEO via Wefollow , for more.

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Looking to 2019: Planning for PR Pros

Solo PR Pro

How will this affect client content strategy, events, customer service, SEO , and more? Some of the big holding companies are experiencing turmoil, brands are cutting down the number of agencies or bringing work in-house. Lourdes Diaz adds, “Another thing to keep in mind is how the marketing industry is changing.

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Finding Keywords: The First Step to Blogging Success

Waxing UnLyrical

Having built my first web site ( DVD Verdict ) in April 1999 and managed one of the larger SEO teams in the country from 2006 to 2009, it’s safe to say I’ve seen many changes in web marketing over time. While that phrase is in decline, SEO still is about 40X as used as either of those two phrases. Guest post by Sean McGinnis.

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