Ranking on Google, Bing and emerging search platforms now requires a strategic combination of search expertise and public relations finesse. At a time when brand reputation and visibility are critical, blending SEO with digital PR is a must. This article gives an overview of integrating SEO into digital PR to achieve business goals, plus best ..
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Many of us have come to terms with the idea that generative artificial intelligence (genAI) doesn’t autonomously execute some digital PR, SEO or content marketing activities. Tools like ChatGPT can currently augment our workflow to improve the quality and speed of creating powerful tools for users that creators want to share and link to because ..
The debate over the significance of links has been a recurring theme in SEO. Recently, Google’s Gary Illyes has once again ignited discussions around the topic when he said that “people overestimate the importance of links,” and it hasn’t been in the top three ranking factors for some time. Such statements from Google have been ..
In 2016, Andrey Lipattsev, a Google search quality senior strategist, said links pointing at your site were one of the top three Google Search ranking factors (along with content and RankBrain). In 2023, that is no longer the case, according to Gary Illyes, an analyst on the Google Search team, speaking at Pubcon Pro in ..
Bing will do away with its disavow links tool in Bing Webmaster Tools starting in October 2023. Bing “will be removing the disavow links feature and associated API,” said Fabrice Canel from Microsoft. Why remove it. Fabrice Canel explained that it is no longer needed that the Bing Search algorithms are great at figuring out ..
Q4 is almost here, along with the holiday shopping season. Rather than focus on ecommerce holiday SEO strategies and campaigns – which you should (hopefully) already have nailed down – now is a good time to start thinking ahead to next year. 1. Learn from last year Start by reviewing last year’s campaign wrap-ups to ..
I started building links in 2010. The process then was very simple: scale your outreach to build backlinks directly to the pages we want to rank. Approaching link building with this perspective can lead one to focus too much on nurturing skills for bulk outreach or email automation. These are good skills, but the best ..
SEO is easy enough, in theory. The strategies are obvious if you’ve been around the block. What’s hard about SEO is the actual execution and implementation. The consistency. On a daily basis. Nowhere is this more obvious than link building. This article will explain why. You’ll also learn how to use the “5 degrees of link relevance” ..
People have long added external links to their blogs in hopes of being seen as relevant. Countless others are vying for these backlinks because they want their rankings to increase. “What will happen if I external link to a popular website like Wikipedia?” a Redditor asked. And Google’s John Mueller broke the floodgates open with ..
“Links are the currency of the web.” We’ve been told this for years, and to be fair, it was true. But not any longer. In this article, I’ll explain why manual link building is now less powerful and practical than digital PR. Relationships: The new currency of the web In recent years, Google has moved ..