Posts Tagged ‘pr’

Mother’s Day Search Engine Optimisation- Mum’s the Word

Mother’s Day is a topical- trending national day. Have you thought about optimising your website to capture any searching souls? Maybe your PR and social media strategy needs a little attention?

Edit the copy on your website- Here are a few SEO suggestions you can consider:

  • Add some new Mother’s Day themed content such as a “Perfect Buys for Mum” or “Mother’s Day wish list”.
  • Add keywords to and optimise your title tags. Title tags are definitely one of the most important aspects, in terms of the algorithmic weight given to them by search engines. If you are selling flowers a perfect opportunity would be to turn your title tag into ‘flowers for Mother’s Day’ as this would capture a popular search term.
  • Optimise the Meta Description tag so that you manage to capture crucial search terms.
  • Build do follow Links to specific Mother’s Day pages
  • Add links to your Social Media sites to attract the attention of the search engines.
  • Create a couple of new themed pages.

Global ‘Digital Life Report Highlights Interesting Facts

Research conducted by TNS shows that more time is being spent communicating via social networks such as Facebook and Linked In rather than the most popular method of email . In Latin America, the Middle East and China the average time spent per week on social networking is 5.2 hours, vs. 4 hours on email.
The heaviest users of social networking are in Malaysia (9 hours per week), Russia (8.1 hours per week) and Turkey (7.7 hours per week). Via PR Newswire

5 Useful Websites for your PR Toolbox

Before putting together PR campaigns and optimising your press release, it is useful to know who you are going to target and find out where the most influential people may be hiding. News will be picked up by the right people if it is relevant and current so creeping into the right hubs and schmoozing with journalists is always a wise move.

Making Sense of Online Content

Generating content that is interesting and newsworthy is a popular technique in the world of online PR, especially for SEO purposes. The more interest your articles, blogs and news releases gain, the more likely you are to gain a high volume of clicks, brand exposure and ultimately traffic to your website.

Below is a list of useful ideas that lead to achieving a successful amount of exposure.

Headlines

Keep headlines simple, they are more likely to be picked up and shared with an audience if they summarise the story effectively. Catchy phrases are likely to hold the readers eye and keep them hooked into reading the whole article. There is no point writing a good piece of news which lays dormant because the headline and opening sentence is a flop. An advert makes an impression within the first five seconds, and a news article should achieve the same.

Value Of A Link: A Hierarchy Of Links In Order of Value

value of a linkThe opinions in this post are my own and based on my own experience.

There are a lot of opinions and arguments about the quality vs quantity in the SEO world and the thing that keeps coming up again and again is Link Quality. But frustratingly enough, everyone’s definition of quality varies. We keep pushing for High Quality links but what ARE they? Where can we find them? How do we get them?