SEO

An Interview with Ben Veechai  (Regional Director, International Marketing, UBM Asia) As marketers, we strive to learn more all the time – learn more about the customers, the latest technology, our competitors, the macro-economy, our business & new products, and so much more. One of the things I enjoy as the marketer for PR Newswire is that I get to know and meet communications professionals from all types of industries, and I thought it would be useful if I can ask them to share their secret source of marketing, so we…

The below article was originally published by Bradley Smith on the “Building Shareholder Confidence” blog on 28 Aug 2013. Even if you’re not working for a public company, Forbes’s article will tell you why “press releases still matter, but not for the reasons you think” from a public relations & SEO perspective. ———— Wow. It’s always nice to be surprised with good news – and I certainly consider the Forbes article “The Press Release Revolution: A Wire Services Comparison Test” as “good news.” [caption id="attachment_1152" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Forbes: The Press Release…

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is gaining increasing importance for PR professionals and those who seek to maximize a brand’s online visibility. Besides having a SEO-friendly website structure, creating and populating quality online content – what we practice in PR, is also critical for SEO. Based on Cheryl Conner’s The 15 Steps To ‘Power SEO’ (PR Is The New SEO) on Forbes.com, we created this inforgraphic to provide a quick step-by-step guide on some of the useful tactics you could practice to power SEO. [caption id="attachment_970" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Click on the…

  Imagine Google as a beautiful girl. You want to win her heart, so you shower her with attention and ply her with gifts in hopes that she will ignore her other suitors and pick you. But things go wrong. You grow obsessed, appearing at her door in the middle of the night with a brain surgeon after she complained earlier of a slight headache, and she ditches you. Instead, she falls for the man who charms her grandmother and wins over her friends. That is how search engine optimization…

Engaging readers with concise, consistent, accurate copy There are two false presumptions that prevail when first learning to write press releases: that it will be really easy, or really difficult. Approaching the task with either of these extremes in mind will undermine writers from the get-go, because in fact, the truth lies somewhere in between. With a little preparation and a basic understanding of both your company’s needs and the requirements of your newswire, crafting an effective press release can be speedy and painless. On the other hand, skipping that…