The Public Relations Blog

Make your website content “findable” to you and your customers with content tags

With increased content production, there’s a growing concern for content searchability among users and content managers. Content tags are a means to combat this issue.

The phrases in a Content Management System (CMS) that group similar content pieces together in a web publication are called content tags. It’s an ideal solution to ‘label’ and classify content, making it easier to search, follow, and group multiple topics. These tags streamline content management for organizations to find and use the content as and when required.

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Be a better resource for the media

As newsrooms continue to shrink, they rely more and more on their reporters to write for print and online as well as take their own photos and videos. With reporters doing more, newspapers also rely on PR professionals and a company’s PR and marketing department to submit stories – in an inverted pyramid style – and images for publication. 

Story ideas and submissions are relatively easy to provide to a media outlet. Many companies struggle with submitting photos that newspapers and magazines will and can use. Here are some tips that will help you and your team submit quality photos the media will use. 

Do you know about the freshness factor? 

It is an element of search engine algorithms that prefers web pages with fresh and updated content over outdated ones.

This is where website management triggers your online visibility. It informs search engines that you have new and relevant content for its users. When the bots index your web pages, Google rewards you with top rankings on the SERPs. 

There’s more to why you need an updated website with SEO-friendly content. Let’s discover what!

Here are seven types of premium content to guide a lead through the buying process

When it comes to capturing leads, it all boils down to providing value. Why would your visitors give you their priced personal information? They will only if you offer them something equally valuable that can be swapped with their confidential data.

But what information is more treasured than regular content?

The journey from seeking information to making a purchase decision!

The buyer's journey involves three stages:

1. Awareness Stage

2. Consideration Stage

3. Decision Stage

At each stage, you need to tailor your content marketing and sales strategy to fit into the buyer's context. Let's understand all three phases of the buyer's journey. 

Learn how you can transition a career in journalism to PR with our guest David DeCamp, corporate communications manager at Crowley.

Guest:

Our episode guest is David DeCamp, corporate communications manager at Crowley. DeCamp oversees all aspects of company content strategy and publication and directs internal communications, employer brand activities, and personnel.

Topic: 

The one with David DeCamp on how you can transition from a career in journalism to a corporate communications position.

Effective strategies and tactics to boost your campaign

Working in public relations is all about strategy. Here are some quick tips to include in your PR strategy to be a trusted adviser to your company and clients:

The three steps search engines follow to rank search results

Are you curious about how search engines generate the ranking list called SERPs?

If you know what SERPs are and what elements they incorporate, it’s easy to understand their workings.

Search engines generate search results in a three-step process. 

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