Friday's #DigitalPR Twitter chat with Rafferty Pendery was all about the need for businesses to embrace mobile and prepare for Googles's next mobile update. Here is the transcript: Q1: 83% of small businesses say a website gives them a competitive advantage - is this any site or is it only true of a good site? You’d think that just any website is … [Read more...]
2016 Trust Barometer Digital PR Implications
The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer published this week highlights some trends that are of particular interest to PR practitioners: Who to trust: People around the world are increasingly reliant on a “person like yourself” for trusted information and opinions. This means that reviews and online conversations with other like-minded folk and content from Influencers … [Read more...]
Visibility is More About Social Than Search
Guest post by Chris Abraham, Digital Strategist at Gerris Corp. Google Penguin and Panda have changed the face of search forever. Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. Sites that have dominated search in the recent past are being penalized or de-indexed, going from the first page to page twenty or being … [Read more...]
Why the Quality Content Bar is now 10X
Watch the video An excellent explanation of how to research and create the kind of content that Google loves. Note his comment about how visual content can make the difference. There are several ways you can increase the quality of your content. See the Google Quality Checklist. Digital PR is about writing for the web, keyword research, SEO, visual content and … [Read more...]
Search Dominates Top News Sites for September 2015
The News search websites are still at the top of the list. These are the Top 15 News sites for September 2015 (Source www.ebizmba.com) Yahoo News - Still holding on to the top spot with 175,000,000 visitor per month Google News - Nipping at their heels with 150,000,000 visitor a month Huffington Post - now a real contender with 11,000,000 visitors a month CNN - … [Read more...]
