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Five Easy SEO Tricks to Improve Your Next Press Release

Cision

What you may not know is that practicing good SEO is just as essential for your press releases as it is for the rest of your online communications. In other words: neglect SEO at your own risk. Before you’ve started to write, ask yourself: what is it about this announcement that my readers will find compelling?

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Why PR Pros Are The Most Versatile Writers

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

But according to the 2018 USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations Global Communications Report , writing is the skill most valued by PR recruiters. Successful PR people tend to be good writers; yet even more impressive than the quality of good PR writing is its versatility. See this earlier post for tips on winning business awards.

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7 Skills PR Teams Can’t Do Without

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

While traditionally PR work consisted of press releases, pitching, and occasional damage control, today’s PR teams must have a diverse digital skill set, including SEO strategy, social media savvy, data analysis and more. This requires a combination of creative thinking, analytical skills, and the ability to develop and execute against plan.

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Newsjacking – An SEOs approach to improving rankings

Buzzstream

Being an SEO first and foremost myself, the impact of what I do is always judged on the impact it had on organic traffic, and more importantly, revenue. Successful newsjacking or any link building activity, if just measured on links could see the brand becoming relevant for queries that are of no value. For example.

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Five Easy SEO Tricks to Improve Your Next Press Release

Beyond PR

What you may not know is that practicing good SEO is just as essential for your press releases as it is for the rest of your online communications. In other words: neglect SEO at your own risk. Before you’ve started to write, ask yourself: what is it about this announcement that my readers will find compelling?

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The 7 “New” Rules Of Digital PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The unofficial kickoff of the digital PR industry goes back to late 2011 and early 2012, when Google’s Panda and Penguin algorithm updates turned the SEO category upside down. The updates rewarded quality content and penalized spammy SEO tricks that had propelled dubious websites to page one of the search rankings.

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Big Changes Ahead in the PR Industry

The Proactive Report

They’ll be expected to deliver more: more strategy, more content, more channels, more creativity and more measurement. If content creation is the engine for growth, the industry will need to invest in people who can develop world-class creative.”. Analytics is now at 62% and SEO at 41%. The Challenge.

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