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Pull PR - Combining SEO and Public Relations

Many companies narrowly define PR activities online solely as blogger relations when in reality, online public relations is so much more. To me, internet based public and media relations encompasses gaining editorial exposure on the web with sites like blogs of course, but it also leverages web based technologies, networks and platforms for developing and maintaining more efficient communication with the media. And by “media” I mean traditional media with an online presence as well as other influencers - be they bloggers, power social news users or social networkers.
Communication efforts might happen online, but the media exposure outcomes may be in print or the web. The question arises, if the connections are made and maintained online using online PR and social media tools, but the exposure is offline, is it still online PR? I say yes.
Earning editorial visibility on the web as a function of public and online […]

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Written by on March 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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How NOT to pitch a blog

In the past I’ve written about blogger relations offering tips on how marketers or PR professionals ought to present their story ideas to bloggers. Pitching bloggers and print journalists are somewhat similar, but in the end, they can be very different things.
Here are a few “what you should not do” tips based on the 3-5 pitches per day we get at Online Marketing Blog:

It should go without saying not to pitch irrelevant stories, but all those PR interns out there hacking away make it so. Please don’t.
Don’t send a copy and paste email with salutations like, “Dear Nameoftheblog” or some other equivalent to “Hey you” or “Hey Guy”. If you can’t bother to find out the name of the blogger, then your message isn’t really that important.
Don’t send blanket solicitations to bloggers in the same general industry. For example, we get pitches from PR firms about major brands running […]

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Written by on August 29th, 2007 with no comments.
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