The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As we move into 2025, PR professionals must adapt to emerging trends that will define successful communication and brand storytelling. Dynamic Online Visibility The digital visibility landscape is undergoing a radical transformation. Precision Audience Research Gone are the days of broad-stroke messaging.

Trends 130

Trends Communications Storytelling Analytics 130

5W PR

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Digital PR is an online marketing approach that’s used to increase a brand’s awareness via internet-based strategies. While in many ways it’s similar to traditional PR, digital PR reaches a broader audience. That said: Why is digital PR important to your brand in 2021?

Digital PR 88

Digital PR Brand Branding Engineering 88

5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2025

By partnering with travel influencers who align with the brand and target audience, brands can tap into their engaged communities and inspire travel aspirations. Choose influencers whose values and travel styles resonate with the destination’s brand. Look for authenticity and a genuine passion for travel.

Tourism 78

Tourism Travel Marketing Local 78

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 20, 2016

Social Media: On social networking and content-sharing sites, respondents are far more trusting of family and friends (78 percent) than a CEO or brand (49 percent). Online visibility: For the fifth consecutive year search engines took the top spot (63 percent) as the most trusted source for general news and information.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR SEO Employee Government 100

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 20, 2016

Social Media: On social networking and content-sharing sites, respondents are far more trusting of family and friends (78 percent) than a CEO or brand (49 percent). Online visibility: For the fifth consecutive year search engines took the top spot (63 percent) as the most trusted source for general news and information.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR SEO Employee Government 100

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 20, 2016

Social Media: On social networking and content-sharing sites, respondents are far more trusting of family and friends (78 percent) than a CEO or brand (49 percent). Online visibility: For the fifth consecutive year search engines took the top spot (63 percent) as the most trusted source for general news and information.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR SEO Employee Government 100

The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Brand Awareness and Visibility In the digital age building brand awareness depends to a large degree on brand visibility. If your brand is not found online, your content and messaging is not seen by the people you want to engage with. What is the difference between brand affinity and trust?

Brand 130

Brand Branding Ethics Engineering 130

Buzzstream

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Before I was at BuzzStream, I worked with The Grit Group , a fantastic digital marketing agency run by Alex Johnson. I recently saw Alex publish a fantastic LinkedIn post about why every SEO should study branding. (It’s Big brands are winning. So, SEOs need to think differently about how we build and work with brands.

SEO 62

SEO Study Brand Branding 62

Doctor Spin

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Digital PR is not link-building for SEO. The rapid evolution of the internet and social media has transformed the communications industry—and PR professionals must adapt. Some “digital PR” agencies have focused on practices like link-building, DA (domain authority) mapping, and webmaster outreach.

Digital PR 83

Digital PR SEO Engineering eBook 83

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

People are more likely to believe search engines (59%) than human editors (41%.) PR Lessons Online sources and search engines are trusted more than traditional media. Identify the communities that will respond to your brand values, products, services and social programs. Peers are Highly Credible.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR System Engineering Training 100

Sword and the Script

APRIL 1, 2025

The company was brand new at the time offered a chatbot as an interface and has now unveiled its version 2.0. Third Door Media publishes marketing trades including Search Engine Land and Martech. All three of these industries PR, SEO and publishing are all respectively experiencing changes. Dazzle unveils 2.0

Software 159

Software Pitching SEO Tools 159

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In the past 12 months digital PR has seen investment in content and paid social media but cuts in SEO and social listening. It’s hard to unpick a clear story from the PRCA’s Annual Digital PR and Communications Report. Digital PR moves fast as Danny Whatmough, chair of the PRCA Digital Group suggests in his introduction.

Digital PR 78

Digital PR Report Communications Crisis Management 78

5W PR

AUGUST 19, 2019

In the world of public relations, digital PR refers to the online marketing strategy utilized by businesses to increase their online presence and boost their brand. Digital PR is a powerful tool capable of boosting a brand’s online presence and visibility. Digital vs. Traditional.

Digital PR 76

Digital PR Print Construction Television 76

Buzzstream

JULY 10, 2024

I met Digitaloft’s founder, James Brockbank, at their Digital PR Summit in Manchester. With his deep SEO background, he can explain technical aspects like Google’s patents while still naturally integrating that into his agency’s digital PR and content strategy without it feeling forced. We are, mate.

Digital PR 98

Digital PR SEO Google Travel 98

5W PR

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In today’s digital age, effective brand communication is essential for success. Public relations and digital marketing have emerged as two powerful tools that can work synergistically to enhance brand visibility, credibility, and reputation. Optimize content for search engines (SEO) to improve visibility.

Strategy 78

Strategy Marketing Crisis Communications Analytics 78

Prohibition

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Over the past few years, digital PR has become significantly more important for brands and now goes way beyond ‘building links’ It includes increased brand awareness, brand positioning, SEO ranking, marketing share, share of voice, social media performance, organic traffic, sales and more – all encompassed in one.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Brand Branding SEO 62

The Proactive Report

APRIL 6, 2021

The digital revolution has been changing the practice of PR for some time now. My first class on digital PR and social media launched more than 10 years ago. Most PR practitioners now feel comfortable with social media, but some of the more technical aspects of digital PR still cause their eyes to glaze over.

Leadership 147

Leadership Engineering Enterprise Social Media 147

Stern + Associates

JULY 21, 2023

This scenario exemplifies the core essence of digital PR, a proactive approach to disseminating brand stories and fostering meaningful interactions within the interconnected digital sphere. It goes beyond the brand visibility aspect of SEO, which primarily focuses on improving a brand’s visibility in search results.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR SEO Engineering Social Media 62

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Media coverage PR earns can drive searches for branded terms which technical SEO experts say is more powerful than even links or keywords. We’ve long known that PR can have a significant impact on search rankings, but some of the industry’s leading search experts are suggesting the effects may be even greater. Did you know?

SEO 140

SEO Engineering Google Study 140

Lauri Pehar Borsh

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s fast-paced world of digital marketing, businesses must optimize their online brand presence to remain competitive. There are numerous strategies to consider, from social media to search engine optimization, when it comes to managing our online presence.

Strategy 78

Strategy Brand Branding Engineering 78

The Proactive Report

JULY 23, 2017

A new report from BrightEdge reveals that although marketers at B2C and B2B Fortune 500 brands recognize the AI, voice and hyper-local revolution is here, most are not yet planning to adapt their marketing strategies to these new ideas. They use search engines and social media to find it. Optimized for search engine algorithms.

Strategy 149

Strategy B2C SEO Social Media 149

Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

Enter digital PR. I’ve spent the last ten years helping companies grow their digital presence with digital PR, and I’ve seen first-hand the impact and value digital PR can drive for a brand’s growth. What is Digital PR? In the next section, we’ll explore the types of digital PR.

Digital PR 71

Digital PR Construction Case Study SEO 71

Prohibition

JANUARY 4, 2023

Digital PR is a great tactic for driving traffic and brand awareness, which can be matched across your offline and online marketing campaigns. They can also be used to add expert commentary or positive reviews on your product or service, which gives an additional platform to showcase your brand. ranking components.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Strategy How To Marketing 62

Buzzstream

MARCH 4, 2025

For instance, when we published our State of Digital PR report, I did some link building outreach: In other cases, it is more of an opportunistic approach that requires the site target take some sort of action to include your link. Lets pretend I want to build links to my State of Digital PR report.

SEO 62

SEO Google Pitching Digital PR 62

The Proactive Report

JULY 31, 2017

Every person that has an interaction with your brand – whether it’s good, bad or indifferent – forms a perception about your brand. Every person in your company is a representative of the brand and now that we’re all online, that’s truer than ever. Often that search is not a brand search, but a generic phrase.

Engineering 188

Engineering Interviews Infographics Social Media 188

The Proactive Report

MAY 12, 2016

For your brand to penetrate that noise and actually make any meaningful contact with your intended audience, you have to be ahead of the pack these days. Especially when you’re talking about marketing and digital PR. The pay off is huge – the media, the public and search engines pay more attention to good original content.

Real Estate 100

Real Estate Brand Branding Survey 100

Agility PR Solutions

MARCH 5, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organic growth remains crucial for brands seeking sustainable success. However, navigating the complexities and intersections of each ingredient—content, search engine optimization (SEO), social, and more—while earning trust signals presents significant challenges.

SEO 110

SEO Engineering Digital PR Brand 110

Buzzstream

MARCH 26, 2025

If You Don’t Have Value, Expect to Pay When youre just starting and have no brand, no content, no audience money often fills the gap. But one of the things that kind of just stood out to me was a recent email that you had sent through and as part of your newsletter, and it was really about building link to a brand new site.

Branding 62

Branding Brand SEO Data 62

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Within Digital PR there are different types of tactics and formats used for creating content, each designed to achieve links and brand mentions. These different digital PR tactics range from surveys, commentary and quick pieces of data analysis through to large scale interactive campaigns.

Digital PR 83

Digital PR Data Survey Construction 83

Buzzstream

JANUARY 7, 2025

With interest in digital PR growing almost 30% in the past few years, we wanted to put together a snapshot of today’s industry, looking at tactics, challenges, tools, and much more. We interviewed over 150 digital PR professionals worldwide between November and December 2024 to give you the State of Digital PR Report for 2025.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Report SEO Data 62

Stuart Bruce

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) has revealed the findings of its Digital PR Report 2015, with insights across the following key areas: In-house budgeting for blogger outreach continues to grow and PR agencies increasingly entrusted with this work. Secondly it’s becoming commoditised.

Digital PR 60

Digital PR Training Report Social Media 60

The Proactive Report

JUNE 17, 2018

91 percent of B2B brands and 86 percent of B2C brands use content as part of their marketing efforts. Why are these brands so content focused? Customers search for information when they’re considering purchasing an item, supporting a cause, making a decision, or working with or for a brand. Image by Anna Fox .

B2C 157

B2C Study Exercises Sports 157

Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

At the same time, AI companies are also facing lawsuits from other media giants , leadingto rampant speculation about how to approach digital PR strategy. Should This Impact Your SEO or Digital PR Strategy? Im here to tell you that it shouldnt impact your SEO or Digital PR strategy. Heres why: 1.

SEO 62

SEO Journalism Radio Google 62

Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But by the end of the summer, we’d onboarded a number of household name brands and were hiring again. We thought we’d come out the other side of things as we headed into a New Year but there was something else at play that was affecting our efforts as a PR and creative team. 1 – Relevancy. Now, think again. 2 – Opinion.

Digital PR 71

Digital PR How To Reddit Engineering 71

Rock the Status Quo

JUNE 30, 2015

If you do anything in the digital space – PR, content marketing, search engine optimization, social media – the one thing that matters most is experience. Write on your own time to build your personal brand. Even just one post per month builds your personal brand. Enter multitasking! There is no impact.

LinkedIn 100

LinkedIn Branding Brand SEO 100

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Over the years, I tested and used almost every digital PR, blogger outreach , and link building tool available. Below, we’ve collected our favorite digital PR tools that have been proven to help launch successful campaigns. The list is broken down by task. All pricing and features are based on the time of publication.)

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

Media kits are an excellent way to introduce the brand to people who may be unfamiliar with it, such as influencers, event attendees, journalists, or prospective clients. While a media kit is a collection of information about the brand, not all media kits will look the same. In March 2020, digital newsroom designer pr.co

How To 176

How To Media Guidelines Pitching 176