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Have PRs been too slow to adopt SEO?

PR in High Definition

I was disheartened to read an article implying that the PR industry is not focusing on SEO , based on pretty cast-iron statistics from the PRCA. I consider myself fortunate that the last two agencies I’ve worked at have placed SEO high up the list of skills that PRs should know about. Is SEO hard? Show me the margin.

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Have PRs been too slow to adopt SEO?

PR in High Definition

I was disheartened to read an article implying that the PR industry is not focusing on SEO , based on pretty cast-iron statistics from the PRCA. I consider myself fortunate that the last two agencies I’ve worked at have placed SEO high up the list of skills that PRs should know about. Is SEO hard? Show me the margin.

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Digital PR spend increases significantly, but still not enough investment in training

Stuart Bruce

The areas where PR agency people want more training are SEO (38%); paid search (30%) and paid social media activity (26%). The majority of in-house comms people gain their social media education and insight from conferences and events (50%) and seminars and roundtables (50%), which has grown significantly by 18%.

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Why Companies Should Be Training All Employees to Use Social Media

Cision

Training Employees to Be Social Sellers and Brand Ambassadors: According to HubSpot , 90 percent of people believe brand recommendations from friends. They also found that 71 percent of people are more likely to purchase something when referred by social media. Training employees on social selling is incredibly important.

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Senior PR practitioners lack digital and social media management skills

Stuart Bruce

They can learn to use social media for media relations to better understand and interact with journalists. They can learn how media relations can be improved by smart use of SEO (search engine optimisation) and SEM (search engine marketing), as well as by publishing and distributing their own content.

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Advertising vs Publicity

PR for Anyone

This is the power of media. Additionally, you will get the SEO that comes with an online article and that is incredibly valuable in terms of links back to your site and the authority that it builds for your website or blog. You are seen as “famous” in your industry.

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Message in a Bottleneck: How to Reach Your Fragmented Audience

PRSay

Using paid tools to boost engagement with your earned media. Better connecting your hard-won media placements with the value they bring to your SEO team. More important, they’ll magnify and multiply your hard-earned successes beyond the impact they once had when they stood as “earned media” alone.

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