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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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Why Press Coverage Still Matters In PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

We help build and manage reputations. So, even if you assume fully half of the professional PR population isn’t engaged in active media pitching, it’s a large number and an unhealthy ratio. Positive press drives SEO. I notice that branding, digital marketing, or even SEO agencies say they offer PR or earned media.

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PR Pros Don’t Need to Know about SEO

The Resolution Blog

“Do you realise the SEO juice that gives our company Dave?” SEO had nothing to do with me as a PR man and it was my intention to keep it that way. Do PRs Need to Know About SEO? I can count on the fingers of two hands the PRs I know who have more than the bare minimum understanding of SEO. In so many ways.

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How to Growth Hack a Successful Backlink Strategy

Cision

When it comes to SEO, earning quality backlinks (links from other websites to your webpage) is one of the most critical ranking factors. According to Brian Dean, SEO expert and owner of Backlinko , “the number of domains linking to a page correlated with rankings more than any other factor.”

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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. Just ask Google. The core skills we need as PR professionals have also changed.

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Podcast Guesting – Why it Should be Part of Your Content Marketing Mix and How to Setup Your Pitch

Buzzstream

While your first instinct might be to pitch podcasts that can be found on Spotify’s Top Podcasts page, I recommend reaching out to lesser-known podcasts that discuss a niche topic that’s related to a topic you’d like to discuss. There’s incredible value from an SEO-perspective .

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Why Every Business Owner Needs to Know a Little Something about SEO

Polaris

If you don’t, your company could be burned, as mine was when Google’s Penguin update came along in 2012. Before Penguin, Google ranked my company either at the top, or near the top, of search results for almost every public relations keyword: Toronto PR firm, Canadian public relations agency, top PR firm Ontario, and on.

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