Buzzstream

MARCH 5, 2025

Since I have amassed a bucket of tips, secrets, and tricks over my ~ seven years of agency work in digital PR and link building, I thought Id start sharing them in the newsletter. After getting some great feedback from readers, I recently started expanding it to include tips from other digital PRs and link builders in the game.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Ross and Emily Campbell-Snidal , their VP of Content Marketing, recently released a podcast explaining their new “product-led digital PR” approach. You can check out their original conversation about product-led digital PR on their blog. It’s truly good content, digital PR.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 4, 2024

She’s been quoted in several of our articles and created a fantastic case study of her digital PR success with KURU Footwear. With that in mind, we took to the podcast to discuss the challenges of ideating, designing, and pitching digital PR campaigns from an in-house. I started digital PR back in 2018.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Chris is the co-founder of UK-based digital PR link building agency, Linkifi. Can you define digital PR? So the way that I feel about digital PR specifically is that it’s it’s link building, but it’s earned media link building. What role does SEO have in digital PR these days?

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 15, 2025

I’ve been looking to speak with more in-house brands who have had success with digital PR. I looked to Chris Lewis , the Associate Digital PR at Launch Potato because he works on several brands under the Launch Potato umbrella. A lot of our digital PR content has to do with personal finance and money.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 17, 2020

From pitches to landing coverage and everything in between, Digital PR can be done without a single tool. This tool has myriad features and uses, but I predominantly use it for both ideation and to assist with pitch-writing. This is where BuzzSumo often came into play. BuzzStream Pitching Workflow.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I was clueless about the world of Digital PR and what it entailed – until I landed in the industry myself. Unlike its traditional PR counterpart, Digital PR is also conducted with SEO in mind and one of the key aims of outreach is to gain linked coverage on online news publications.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 5, 2025

Alex Cassidy of UK digital PR agency Distinctly wrote a post about how they were trying to use ChatGPT to build creative campaigns. The digital PR team’s doing it, and other agencies are doing it. I want to start integrating AI processes into digital PR again. That’s how it all started.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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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.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 1, 2025

As you write a pitch, it uses generative AI to build a media list based on the text of your pitches. This concept diverges from traditional PR outreach efforts. Image credit: Google Gemini and respective vendors The post Will chatbots be the primary interface for PR software [PR Tech Sum No.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 26, 2017

One of the places you need visibility is in the search engines – Google in particular. Google’s purpose is to deliver the best possible content to people who type in a search query. The good news is there are some fundamental elements to search viability and Google has been kind enough to make them public.

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Beyond PR

MAY 12, 2017

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. A strong reason for PR pros to start concentrating more on SEO. In the advanced digital landscape and a mobile-first world, digital PR is already closely integrated with SEO.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 2, 2017

Facebook and Google were so alarmed by this flood of fake news that they announced they will be cracking down on fake news stories. Get the Digital PR Tips newsletter. How to Spot Fake News. FactCheck.org offers these tips on how to spot fake news: Consider the source: . One way is to look at the URL. Follow me on Twitter.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

My favorite feature, however, is that Thea and Grace have been compiling and categorizing all of the campaigns featured on their list into a free, shared Google Sheet (be sure to make a copy before filtering): Why subscribe? Finding great digital PR examples , campaigns and resources takes a lot of work and time. Why Subscribe?

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The trick to getting good content from an AI service is to learn how to write excellent prompts. Give it an identity to write from, a tone of voice to use, and enough context about the topic so that you get a great response back. Always edit and put your own voice on a piece that’s created by AI. Never use it straight from AI.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 17, 2024

Blogger outreach, link building outreach, digital PR outreach, and affiliate partnership outreach all have their place in the marketing mix. And like them or not, if you are serious about digital PR or starting a link building strategy, you need email outreach. There are a few simple ways to get started.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Following Google’s latest moves, such as the Helpful Content updates , email anti-spam requirements , and transition into AI, The title of this post shouldn’t surprise anyone. Digital PR is certainly not new, but it’s consistently proven to be the most effective way to gain the links that Google values.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One of my favorite examples is when KFC ran out of chicken in 2018 and published this full-page ad apologizing for it: In digital PR, reactive PR campaigns typically pitch quotes, data, or new stories to journalists that tie into a trending topic or news event. I can do this with a simple Google News search.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

However, it also comes with the unique challenge of delivering results in digital PR on a lean budget. Tips for Doing Digital PR on a Low Budget Based on our chat, here are some great tips for doing digital PR on a small budget. Content led, you know, digital PR. I want to get into this.

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The Proactive Report

MARCH 14, 2017

Work out a PR strategy that will support that goal. Write down your goal/s for your PR activities – make sure they are SMART goals : Specific : They need to be well-defined and clear. Learn to use Google Analytics and the analytics available on social media platforms. Follow me on Twitter.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

As Google continues to tighten the noose on borderline link building tactics with March 2024 Helpful Content updates , building backlinks is more important than ever. Even some white hat link building strategies rub against Google’s spam guidelines if builders don’t properly check websites for quality signals. Enter digital PR.

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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.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that. If you’re lucky, the journalist will share every article they write on X, giving you insight similar to what you saw in the previous MuckRack example.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The quality of writing and visuals is very subjective. But there are several indicators that can tell you how well your content is doing: The Google Quality Guidelines. To attract an audience and earn good rankings in Google you must stand out in the midst of all that noise. So how do you know if your efforts are working?

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Buzzstream

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Before I was at BuzzStream, I worked with The Grit Group , a fantastic digital marketing agency run by Alex Johnson. Given all of Google’s wild things, like AI Overviews, Site Reputation Abuse, Helpful Content Updates, and ChatGPT’s emergence, his post resonated with me, so I asked him to come on the pod to discuss it.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 14, 2024

Digital PR can help rankings, organic traffic and more. The term digital PR may differ slightly depending on who you ask. We recently discussed the differences between US and UK digital PR with Rise at Seven’s Will Hobson on our podcast. How Does Digital PR Help SEO?

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Google now combats this approach by releasing new anti-spam requirements for bulk email sending. But there are four easy ways to find journalists: Google Search for Publications If you don’t know where to start, you can also do a Google search to find some news outlets in whatever field you are interested in. Jude’s Walk/Run.

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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.)

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Buzzstream

JULY 1, 2024

One day, Google says it doesn’t matter as much, and the next day, someone leaks their algorithm, which clearly shows otherwise. Looking at Google Trends to check its popularity shows that link building is almost the same, if not slightly up, from five years ago. Link building has undergone a lot these days. And it may even be too high.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 22, 2025

Then offer to write it for them. I mean, this has been a very tumultuous year with Google algorithm updates, AI overviews, the Google leak, all this stuff. I feel like that’s the main way they write, they invested in links and now all of a sudden they weren’t getting brand searches. Google’s algorithm.

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The Proactive Report

JULY 23, 2018

And since Google dominates the search market, it pays to develop content that meets Google’s quality guidelines and ranking rules. Google’s Aims. As early as December 1998 “PC Magazine” reported that Google “has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results.”. The Google Algorithm.

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The Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Google News – Nipping at their heels with 150,000,000 visitor a month. The fact that Yahoo News and Google News are so far ahead of the individual news sites supports that 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer findings that search is now the most used and most trusted source for news. SEO is a vital PR skill today.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Google doesn’t like it when link builders try to game the system, and they regularly take steps to discourage this. Gray hat tactics aren’t explicitly banned by Google but are looked down upon. I love some of the things I see from digital pr, it’s a shame it often gets bucketed with the spammy kind of link building.

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Buzzstream

AUGUST 16, 2024

For example, if I wanted to find a journalist who writes about Italy travel tips. Most media databases will list a LinkedIn profile; if not, try a quick Google search for the person’s name + the publication. X has a powerful Advanced Search functionality , but a standard Google search usually does the trick.

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