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3 lessons corporate blogs can learn from personal blogs

Communications Conversations

Corporate blogging has never been bigger. According to the annual University of Massachusetts study of how Fortune 500 companies are using social media, a whopping 77% of companies are using a corporate blog. Look through the Fortune 500 companies and their blogs–you’ll definitely see this pattern.

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What PR People Should Know About SEO

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Public relations and SEO were once worlds apart, with almost no overlap between them. SEO focused on backlink schemes and website-stuffed keywords to drive search rankings. Now there’s a sizeable area of commonality as traditional public relations has gone digital and SEO has changed. What changed? The trick here is focus.

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#PRStudChat Kicks off the New Year with a January 17th Twitter Discussion on SEO

Deirdre Breakenridge

ET, on all things search and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). If you’re in PR and you thought SEO was someone else’s job, then you should think again. PR pros need to acquire new skills and SEO is definitely one of them. When you merge SEO with strategic public relations, the combined results can pay off in a big way.

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Why Quality Content is the Foundation of SEO

The Proactive Report

Don’t get me wrong, you definitely need good design and programming. Without that you don’t have a site or a blog. So if quality content is the foundation of SEO and online visibility, how can you create quality content? Take a look at the ads for writers and content creators. But you also need great quality content.

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Should You Conduct Negative SEO Against a Competitor?

Melissa Agnes

Apparently an experiment was recently conducted where 84 small business owners across different industries were emailed to see if they would be interested in hiring a company to perform negative SEO against their competitors. What is negative SEO? The consequences of performing negative SEO. Here are the results: 48% said yes.

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5 ways to reframe the discussion about corporate blogging

Communications Conversations

For as far back as I can remember (12 years now), there has been one consistent strategy when it comes to social media marketing: To drive traffic from social to our corporate blogs. So, driving traffic to corporate blogs from social media channels really should no longer be a thing. 3: Use blog posts as media relations fodder.

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Digital PR ? Link-Building

Doctor Spin

Digital PR is not link-building for SEO. But this is SEO, not digital PR. Social media, blogs, podcasts, and other online channels presented new opportunities for communication. Unfortunately, some agencies began equating digital PR with basic SEO practices to pursue tangible results, which many thought would be “easy wins.”