Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Earned media will remain important SearchGPT is likely to prioritize high-authority publications, meaning digital PR and thought leadership may become even more important. Marketers should consider targeting high-visibility content sources used by SearchGPT to enhance brand inclusion in its responses.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 7, 2021

PR and SEO? When it comes to dynamic duos, PR and SEO didn’t always match up so easily. For a long time, SEO teams were considered behind-the-scenes technical wizards helping brands climb the Google rankings ladder while PR teams were out in the real world doing the actual marketing. Why Companies Need PR and SEO.

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Scoop.it!

JULY 13, 2023

Thought Leadership, combined with content curation, is used to deliver unique opinions and viewpoints by subject matter experts to inform, educate, entertain, and impart wisdom to others. In a survey conducted in 2022, Thought Leadership was an effective tool used by organizations to provide value to customers during tough times.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 23, 2024

This strategy will also ensure a brand presence across all spheres of the digital landscape. Improved brand visibility: Higher search rankings increase your brand’s visibility. Thought leadership: Establishing your brand as an authority in your field. Dig deeper: What is content marketing?

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Digital Marketing Whitepaper Affiliate Marketing User-Generated 93

Sprout Social

AUGUST 24, 2022

A brand’s online presence is also tied to brand image and voice, so collaborating with social media teams is essential to managing an organization’s communications. We’ll define what public relations marketing means in today’s industry, why our teams collaborate and how we work as a team to amplify Sprout’s brand.

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PR Branding Transform Communications 105

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We unpack how your brand can use these examples to spark your own scroll-stopping ideas—while maximizing your budget and doing more with less. If a C-suite executive says the wrong thing on social, it could snowball into a brand crisis and cost them their job. Let Salesforce give you hope. She even mentions astrology in her posts.

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Orbit Media Studios

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The brand that gives away the best tips, tricks and tools, wins the most loyalty, leads and love. Audience research: Communities and PR opportunities This method comes from our friend, Liza Adams , who uses AI for marketing strategy and research. This may give you ideas for PR, event marketing and community engagement.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To improve search rankings today, you need a comprehensive digital PR strategy that cultivates expertise, targets key touchpoints in the buyer’s journey, creates compelling data stories, and garners influence through reputation and recognition. Key insights: Digital PR for SEO is not link building but an alternative to link building.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Author: Neda Navab Your brand is the face of your company, and if you’re a global company, brand consistency is both challenging and vital. Here’s how one global business’s lack of consistency confused customers and hurt their brand. How Burger King Failed to “Satisfry” Customers. Don’t confuse the customer.

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Branding Food Thought Leadership PR 134

Backlinko

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Note: If another brand is offering reciprocal links but ALSO asking you to pay, its likely not worth it. Here are a few different ways to create exceptional content: Informative articles: Write comprehensive guides, how-tos, or thought leadership pieces that offer valuable insights. So youll want to avoid them at all costs.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

This unprecedented co-branding partnership between Google and Nestle fueled buzz for both brands and started a discussion around the future of similar arrangements. Partner with the right brands. Who you partner with is a reflection of your brand. It’s an opportunity to shape the way customers think about your brand.

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 28, 2023

There are simply many more effective ways to generate backlinks and build an effective digital PR strategy. When backlink efforts are combined with high-quality PR, these tactics drive more traffic to your site, boost quality inbound leads and – ultimately – generate more revenue to grow your business.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 1, 2015

Instead of asking the author light-hearted questions like who her favorite character is, people dove much deeper—pushing the envelope in calling her stories out for misogynistic themes, and sticking it where it hurts in insulting her writing abilities: Obviously, this publicity stunt did not go well for the author or the brand.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 28, 2011

Just over a year ago I wrote about how Social Media will help to unite Marketing, PR, Customer Service, HR and more. The specific topics we covered included the growth of Twitter, the need for Marketing and PR to establish trust and the ROI of Social Media. . But I wanted to share it all with you and get your thoughts.

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SocialPilot

MARCH 26, 2025

Every minute, billions of conversations occur online globally , and your brand has a choice. You can choose to lead the conversation narratives or be swallowed by the fierce competition from competing brands. Brands that dominate the share of voice in their market don’t just steer conversations. They dominate the industry.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today’s always-on digital world has drastically increased the work it takes to craft a memorable brand narrative. It’s no wonder almost three-quarters (73%) of PR professionals don’t think the term “ public relations ” as it’s defined today will describe the work they’re doing in five years.

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Sprout Social

MAY 11, 2023

Operating on social media without brand safety tools is like browsing the internet without malware protection. Brand safety has traditionally been relegated to just protecting brands from advertising on or near inappropriate content online. What are brand safety tools?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A better, mutually beneficial approach is partnering with them to improve everyone’s brand. Partnering with them from the beginning of a project or campaign can provide brands with some extra insights. If you can get enough influencers talking about your product or your brand, you start to really get noticed. Image: PESO Model.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Employee Advocacy by Sprout —an employee-driven advocacy hub built into your social media management platform—makes it possible to boost reach while cutting ad costs by turning your employees into brand advocates. Increasing earned media for your PR team. Increase brand awareness—even on a decreased budget. Request a demo.

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Branding Thought Leadership PR Promotion 109

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The Ultimate Tutorial to Add Inbound Marketing Into Your PR Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Inbound marketing has become a popular strategy for a number of things including for being the best startup PR strategy. photo credit: Gavin Llewellyn via photopin.

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Inbound Marketing PR Thought Leadership Health 78

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

Thought Leadership. Another 55% say they’re focusing more on thought leadership content. Thought leadership positions your company as an ideological go-to when things get tough or questions arise. Thought leadership isn’t adding nuance or edginess for its own sake. PR & Social Media.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

If you’ve set personal goals already (like seeing the inside of 24 Hour Fitness more than once a week), but you’re looking for a professional goal that will make a tangible impact on your brand and organization, you’ve come to the right place. So this resolution is vital to any and every business: create and maintain a consistent brand voice.

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Branding Thought Leadership Whitepaper PR 92

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Author: Ellen Gomes As a marketer, what’s one way that you can quickly engage your audience and position your brand as friendly and relatable? One reason these ads do well is because of testing—brands making a big investment want to make sure they create an ad that resonates. Quick answer: Incorporate animals into your marketing.

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Branding Thought Leadership PR Marketing 94

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Brands, organizations, and marketers understand the power of engaging influencers, but may lack the resources to make it part of their overarching strategy. Instead, they often work in either as a grassroots effort from one organization or an extension of existing PR efforts. Influencer marketing does not sit in one function.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 16, 2013

In the New Rules of Marketing and PR, David Meerman Scott boasts that Real-Time Marketing & PR will also enable you to: Develop a business culture that encourages speed over sloth. These opportunistic real-time strikes by brands show they are listening and on-the-ball, while allowing them to be edgy and fresh. The Theory.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

And yet there are some amazing examples of businesses that are achieving massive growth in new website visitors through consistent editorial content and strategic thought leadership. It is attracting engaged audiences through a strong editorial focus on thought leadership. How could we ever break through? Source: SEMRush.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

So how can a brand boost its organic rankings? For brands to be successful in reaping the SEO benefits of great content, they need to develop a strategy that addresses both prongs of what Google is looking for. The key is to ask yourself: Even if this content isn’t still tied directly to my brand, is it valuable to my target audience?

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PR Thought Leadership User-Generated SEO 171

Exposure Ninja

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It’s not just about being found anymore – it’s about controlling the narrative that AI tells about your brand. Your brand positioning needs to be crystal clear, and your authority needs to be unquestionable. Your brand stands out as an authority, and youre well-positioned to adapt to future changes.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 16, 2023

Actually, AI is making SEO even more vital to the success of you, your business, and your brand. So put down the pitchfork and start building your thought leadership , and together, we can overcome the “AI is taking over Marketing” epidemic! Get Your Name Out There Lastly, you need all eyes on PR and content promotion.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 11, 2018

Even successful, established brands must start at the ground floor to build a B2B influencer marketing program – the same as an agile, scrappy startup. She offers the lessons learned along the way to help B2B brands create influencer marketing programs: Set a clear goal. Create thought leadership (not product-oriented) videos on site.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 20, 2022

If you’re struggling to breakthrough on social, turn to your employees to widen your audience and grow your brand community. On average, content shared by employees receive more total engagements than content shared by brands. Our team members are eager to post about their experience with our brand. How we curate.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Imagine if you could monitor and analyze all social media conversations happening around your brand, and tap into consumer insights that prove crucial for growing your business. By tapping into social listening, you can build a deeper understanding of your audience and gather honest feedback about your brand/products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 13, 2015

It ignites media attention and brand awareness for your company (aka a PR team’s dream). Launching an awards program serves the needs of both you and your customers: It makes your company’s current customers feel appreciated and thus encourages loyalty and longevity in your relationship.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 24, 2014

The New Rules of Marketing and PR. The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly – David Meerman Scott (Marketing and Sales Strategist). Rand (President and CEO of Zocalo Group). Chapman (Founder, Digital Dads).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2018

As marketers, not only do we have to manage those 140 emails a day, we also have to look at emails sent by automated systems— social media spikes, alerts about a potential PR crisis, or even an email that tells you about low open rates about your latest email marketing campaign (ironic, I know). Why Check Your Brand Mentions?

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Product PR Thought Leadership Energy 134

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2013

Content Marketing for Brand Engagement and Demand Generation written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is David Capece – Enjoy! Improve brand perception. Become a thought leader. Increase loyalty.

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Content Marketing Thought Leadership Branding Whitepaper 77

Buffer Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

  It did mean I went through a very intense period of saying no to dessert (would not recommend), but it also helped me fall in love with exercise (would recommend) — and almost accidentally, build something of a personal brand.  I realized it was time for a personal brand pivot. Naturally, I put it to the experts.

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