The document provides tips for using spreadsheets to improve digital PR workflows. It discusses using formulas like COUNTIF, VLOOKUP, and TRIM to extract useful information from data. Specific tips include building a 200+ contact list for a new topic in 10 minutes using BuzzSumo data and formulas. Another tip is to keep a "little black book" of past successful campaigns for inspiration. The document also explains how to find all instances of content syndication and how to scrape websites to extract things like journalist names programmatically.
Product, service and category page links (and how to get them) - Rebecca Moss...Rebecca Moss
Rebecca heads up the Digital PR team at JBH, delivering creative digital PR strategies for lifestyle brands. After working in SEO for more years than she would care to admit, Rebecca's presentation reveals how the SEO industry has fallen out of love with large-scale hero campaigns, and shifted back to fundamentals of earning links using content marketing techniques.
Networking for SEOs (and why it matters)GretaKoivikko
This document discusses networking for SEOs. It begins by noting that many SEOs feel insecure about their networking skills. The document then discusses why networking is important for career progression and finding jobs. It notes that two out of five SEOs have found jobs through their networks. The document also discusses how to network effectively, including preparing for events by researching other attendees, starting conversations, asking questions, sharing personal details, knowing when to move on in conversations, and following up after events. It emphasizes that the goal of networking is building long-term industry connections.
The document discusses how to get teams doing user experience (UX) work as part of digital marketing. It addresses common excuses for not doing UX and provides low-cost and quick solutions. The key recommendations are to create an informal UX team with advocates from different disciplines, ensure UX work is reliable by testing with real users, and consider international UX needs as cultures navigate sites differently.
Will Critchlow's presentation at BrightonSEO October 2022.
At SearchPilot, we run huge numbers of tests. It's natural to look first to the winning tests, but there is a lot we can learn from the tests that fail - both the inconclusive ones and the negative outcomes.
Learn how we run SEO tests, how we analyse winners and losers, and take advantage of the lessons we have learned from dozens of losing tests. Take away actionable insights you can use in your own testing or SEO program.
Holistic Search - Developing An Organic First StrategyArpunBhuhi
The cliché goes that Paid and Organic search work in silos and we have all been a witness to that. I'll be talking you through why you should be developing your search strategy holistically and how to do this.
The document discusses scaling SEO through a product-led approach. It describes how content production and performance analysis can be scaled using templates, natural language generation, and data aggregation/dashboards. Specific strategies discussed include scaling content production through AI-assisted templates reviewed by specialists, and scaling analytics through custom dashboards integrating internal and external data to surface hidden opportunities. The overall message is that many aspects of SEO can be scaled through automation and data-driven approaches while maintaining quality.
The document discusses the challenges of scaling great content. It states that while scaling basic content is easy, scaling high-quality content is difficult. It recommends systematizing, standardizing, and streamlining content production processes to help overcome these challenges. This includes outlining processes, reviewing drafts, editing, and publishing content according to standardized steps.
Product, service and category page links (and how to get them) - Rebecca Moss...Rebecca Moss
Rebecca heads up the Digital PR team at JBH, delivering creative digital PR strategies for lifestyle brands. After working in SEO for more years than she would care to admit, Rebecca's presentation reveals how the SEO industry has fallen out of love with large-scale hero campaigns, and shifted back to fundamentals of earning links using content marketing techniques.
Networking for SEOs (and why it matters)GretaKoivikko
This document discusses networking for SEOs. It begins by noting that many SEOs feel insecure about their networking skills. The document then discusses why networking is important for career progression and finding jobs. It notes that two out of five SEOs have found jobs through their networks. The document also discusses how to network effectively, including preparing for events by researching other attendees, starting conversations, asking questions, sharing personal details, knowing when to move on in conversations, and following up after events. It emphasizes that the goal of networking is building long-term industry connections.
The document discusses how to get teams doing user experience (UX) work as part of digital marketing. It addresses common excuses for not doing UX and provides low-cost and quick solutions. The key recommendations are to create an informal UX team with advocates from different disciplines, ensure UX work is reliable by testing with real users, and consider international UX needs as cultures navigate sites differently.
Will Critchlow's presentation at BrightonSEO October 2022.
At SearchPilot, we run huge numbers of tests. It's natural to look first to the winning tests, but there is a lot we can learn from the tests that fail - both the inconclusive ones and the negative outcomes.
Learn how we run SEO tests, how we analyse winners and losers, and take advantage of the lessons we have learned from dozens of losing tests. Take away actionable insights you can use in your own testing or SEO program.
Holistic Search - Developing An Organic First StrategyArpunBhuhi
The cliché goes that Paid and Organic search work in silos and we have all been a witness to that. I'll be talking you through why you should be developing your search strategy holistically and how to do this.
The document discusses scaling SEO through a product-led approach. It describes how content production and performance analysis can be scaled using templates, natural language generation, and data aggregation/dashboards. Specific strategies discussed include scaling content production through AI-assisted templates reviewed by specialists, and scaling analytics through custom dashboards integrating internal and external data to surface hidden opportunities. The overall message is that many aspects of SEO can be scaled through automation and data-driven approaches while maintaining quality.
The document discusses the challenges of scaling great content. It states that while scaling basic content is easy, scaling high-quality content is difficult. It recommends systematizing, standardizing, and streamlining content production processes to help overcome these challenges. This includes outlining processes, reviewing drafts, editing, and publishing content according to standardized steps.
Data Pitfalls - Brighton SEO - Katie Swann.pptxKatieSwann5
We always hope to see our digital PR campaigns take off, but sometimes they can take off in the worst way.
From inaccurate data to misleading headlines, there are plenty of ways that we can fall into data-related pitfalls.
I explore some of the most common data dangers and how to avoid them so your campaigns don’t end up on the wrong side of digital PR Twitter, keeping you and your clients happy!
Talk by Louise at SEO Brighton in April 2022.
It is really easy to design and build a beautiful but slow WordPress website! The Google update for Core Web Vitals is a set of SEO ranking signals to help website owners improve the speed and user experience for their website.
In this talk Louise will share with you how to adjust your WordPress site to improve your Core Web Vital scores. The strategies are different for each metric so she will go through each one and give you some practical ideas you can take back and action or ask your developer to implement.
This document discusses how to build links that satisfy Google's E.A.T. (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) guidelines. It introduces the concepts of E.A.T. and explains why links that increase the linked page's perceived quality are more valuable. Specific linking strategies are presented such as guest blogging, Wikipedia links, and Google My Business citations. The key takeaway is that links following E.A.T. principles help pages by boosting their perceived quality in search engine algorithms.
[BrightonSEO Oct 2022] Remarketing SEO - Himani Kankaria - Missive Digital.pdfHimani Kankaria
Learn with Himani Kankaria the 4Ps of Remarketing SEO to boost conversions and maximize the ROI of your organic channel. After all, why should PPC people have all the fun?
Here are a few free templates she shared during her talk at BrightonSEO in October 2022:
1. Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP) template in Google Sheets by Missive Digital: https://bit.ly/33mrr1R
2. GA3/UA New vs Returning Reporting Template by Missive Digital - https://bit.ly/UA-Return
Have any questions? DM her on the following social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/himani_kankaria
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/himanikankaria/
Book a calendar with her at https://calendly.com/missivedigital/15min
More info about Missive Digital - https://missivedigital.com/
The document discusses the "dark funnel" which refers to the invisible or unknown steps a company takes when researching and evaluating vendors before making a purchase decision. It notes that over 75% of companies have already made their decision before engaging with a vendor. It then discusses how marketers can shine light on the dark funnel by building online communities, monitoring website behavior and intent data, and having a self-reinforcing marketing approach to identify companies in the early stages of consideration. Measuring engagement in the dark funnel can help marketers gain a better understanding of attribution and improve conversion rates.
Agile SEO: Prioritise SEO Activities with Cadence and Risk RadiusParth Suba
An SEO professional can learn on how to improve their relationship with developer and get technical SEO errors solved without a hassle
This talk is about prioritising SEO activities based on regular cadence and at the same time calculating the risk radius of the high level decisions taken.
About me: I have 7 years of experience in SEO, I work as an independent SEO consultant, co-host of #SEOTalk Twitter chat (which is India's oldest digital marketing Twitter chat up and running since 2012).
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out me on Twitter: @parthsuba77 and send me an email on parthsuba77[at]gmail[dot]com
Automate The Technical SEO Stuff by Michael Van Den Reym
In this talk, Michael will show you how to automate technical SEO tasks. You will learn how to schedule and compare crawls to spot technical errors faster, how to use RPA to speed up technical SEO audits and how to automatically optimize images. You will get inspired to execute technical SEO better and faster.
Martin McGarry - SEO strategy c/o England manager Gareth SouthgateMartin McGarry
This document outlines an SEO strategy inspired by Gareth Southgate's plan to improve the England football team. It presents a three step target setting framework: 1) Be competitive in 6-12 months, 2) achieve tournament success in 1-2 years, and 3) be number one in 2-3 years. Key metrics such as visibility, site health, traffic, and time on page are identified and targets are set for each step. Accompanying tasks are mapped to the metrics and timeline to execute the plan, such as link campaigns, technical fixes, and content updates. The strategy aims to provide structure through measurable goals and accountability.
How to Generate Content that Builds it's Own LinksLizGration
This document provides a 3-step process for creating content that generates its own links: 1) Research the type of content needed, potential topics, and how to make the content better; 2) Produce the content by collecting data, visualizing it, and optimizing the content; 3) Establish visibility for the content by reviewing, refreshing, and outreaching to other sites for links. The overall recommendation is to focus on building valuable assets rather than directly seeking links, and to use multiple strategies for visibility rather than relying on just one.
How to go viral on a budget using Digital PR.pptxAlexHickson3
The document discusses how to go viral on a budget using public relations (PR). It recommends tying a product or idea into a current trend, validating the trend, identifying the target audience, crafting a compelling pitch, and developing an effective outreach strategy. Specifically, it outlines how the author launched an unknown brand called "2020 Scent" that generated over £20,000 in revenue with a campaign costing under £10 by tying scented products to viral trends from that year.
BrightonSEO - Master Crawl Budget Optimization for Enterprise WebsitesManick Bhan
For every website on the internet, Google has a fixed budget for how many pages their bots can and are willing to crawl. The internet is a big place, so Googlebot can only spend so much time crawling and indexing our websites. Crawl budget optimization is the process of ensuring that the right pages of our websites end up in Google’s index and are ultimately shown to searchers.
Google’s recommendations for optimizing crawl budget are rather limited, because Googlebot crawls through most websites without reaching its limit. But enterprise-level and ecommerce sites with thousands of landing pages are at risk of maxing out their budget. A 2018 study even found that Google’s crawlers failed to crawl over half of the webpages of larger sites in the experiment.
Influencing how crawl budget is spent can be a more difficult technical optimization for strategists to implement. But for enterprise-level and ecommerce sites, it’s worth the effort to maximize crawl budget where you can. With a few tweaks, site owners and SEO strategists can guide Googlebot to regularly crawl and index their best-performing pages.
How to Incorporate ML in your SERP Analysis, Lazarina Stoy -BrightonSEO Oct, ...LazarinaStoyanova
Google conducts 800,000 experiments and improvements to search annually to optimize search results for users. In 2021 alone, Google made 5,000 improvements to search. As of August 2022, 92% of all search queries are handled by Google. The document then provides an in-depth overview of how to conduct a comprehensive search engine optimization (SEO) analysis, including competitor analysis, entity analysis, sentiment analysis, search intent analysis, language use analysis, and rank analysis. It recommends leveraging tools like Google APIs, Data for SEO, and GPT-3 to automate the analysis and provide classifications. The analysis is intended to guide content and keyword strategy execution rather than replace it.
How to be the ultimate double agent- PR and Link Builder Isa Lavahun BTNSEO S...Isa Lavs
Traditional PR professionals are doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to link building – without even realising it. This presentation reveals some practical tips on how to tweak ‘traditional’ PR practices, that will help supercharge securing those valuable links and show the SEO value of their work.
How to leverage indexation tracking to monitor issues and improve performanceSimon Lesser
Understanding and diagnosing indexation issues is vital to SEO success, but until very recently, getting good data was nearly impossible. Google’s newly-introduced URL Inspection API opens a new world of possibilities for tracking indexation. In this talk, Simon explores how to leverage this data to monitor status, spot changes, and catch issues in realtime — no coding required!
How to produce great multilingual content, even when you can't read it | Laur...Oban International
Laura will cover the importance of multilingual, properly localised content as part of an international marketing strategy, exploring some actionable steps to making that happen and highlighting some common pitfalls to avoid.
How to create content that generates leads -- not just traffic.pptxAramintaRobertson
The document discusses how to create content that generates leads rather than just traffic. It emphasizes focusing content on customers' needs through a solid content strategy, deep understanding of the target audience, expertise-driven content, and analytics tracking. Specific tips include researching common customer questions, identifying their best potential customers, and addressing popular search queries with in-depth answers from subject experts. The goal is to solve customers' problems and generate leads through helpful, targeted content.
Brighton SEO October 2022: How your website impacts the planet - and what yo...Stuart Davies
Stu Davies, Head of Agency from Creative Bloom, local surfer and environmental campaigner slides from his talk from Brighton SEO October 2022.
It is estimated the internet accounts for 4% of Greenhouse gas emissions. As SEOs, we can play a crucial part in making the internet an energy-efficient place and do our bit to reduce that impact. Stu talks through that impact and how SEOs can help make the world greener and still deliver great rankings.
Public relations introduction for entrepreneurs and small business ownerswhytehalld
Delroy A. Whyte-Hall established AcclaimPR.com in 2009 to help small business owners with public relations. In this course, he will explain what public relations is, how small businesses can generate news, how to write a news release, and where to distribute news releases. The course covers identifying news ideas from a business, the six elements of a news release including contact info, headline, date, lead paragraph and text, and finding appropriate media outlets to send releases to for coverage. The goal is to teach small business owners how to use cost-effective PR strategies to promote their company.
Workshop Content and Social Media StrategyHarm Teunisse
This is a content & social media strategy workshop I've been executing at various companies worldwide. It covers creating a strategy and executing that strategy, next to offering simple tools for both beginner and experienced editors to get started making great content. Had great feedback on this presentation as it covers a lot of subjects without becoming to detailed to remember.
Data Pitfalls - Brighton SEO - Katie Swann.pptxKatieSwann5
We always hope to see our digital PR campaigns take off, but sometimes they can take off in the worst way.
From inaccurate data to misleading headlines, there are plenty of ways that we can fall into data-related pitfalls.
I explore some of the most common data dangers and how to avoid them so your campaigns don’t end up on the wrong side of digital PR Twitter, keeping you and your clients happy!
Talk by Louise at SEO Brighton in April 2022.
It is really easy to design and build a beautiful but slow WordPress website! The Google update for Core Web Vitals is a set of SEO ranking signals to help website owners improve the speed and user experience for their website.
In this talk Louise will share with you how to adjust your WordPress site to improve your Core Web Vital scores. The strategies are different for each metric so she will go through each one and give you some practical ideas you can take back and action or ask your developer to implement.
This document discusses how to build links that satisfy Google's E.A.T. (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) guidelines. It introduces the concepts of E.A.T. and explains why links that increase the linked page's perceived quality are more valuable. Specific linking strategies are presented such as guest blogging, Wikipedia links, and Google My Business citations. The key takeaway is that links following E.A.T. principles help pages by boosting their perceived quality in search engine algorithms.
[BrightonSEO Oct 2022] Remarketing SEO - Himani Kankaria - Missive Digital.pdfHimani Kankaria
Learn with Himani Kankaria the 4Ps of Remarketing SEO to boost conversions and maximize the ROI of your organic channel. After all, why should PPC people have all the fun?
Here are a few free templates she shared during her talk at BrightonSEO in October 2022:
1. Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP) template in Google Sheets by Missive Digital: https://bit.ly/33mrr1R
2. GA3/UA New vs Returning Reporting Template by Missive Digital - https://bit.ly/UA-Return
Have any questions? DM her on the following social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/himani_kankaria
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/himanikankaria/
Book a calendar with her at https://calendly.com/missivedigital/15min
More info about Missive Digital - https://missivedigital.com/
The document discusses the "dark funnel" which refers to the invisible or unknown steps a company takes when researching and evaluating vendors before making a purchase decision. It notes that over 75% of companies have already made their decision before engaging with a vendor. It then discusses how marketers can shine light on the dark funnel by building online communities, monitoring website behavior and intent data, and having a self-reinforcing marketing approach to identify companies in the early stages of consideration. Measuring engagement in the dark funnel can help marketers gain a better understanding of attribution and improve conversion rates.
Agile SEO: Prioritise SEO Activities with Cadence and Risk RadiusParth Suba
An SEO professional can learn on how to improve their relationship with developer and get technical SEO errors solved without a hassle
This talk is about prioritising SEO activities based on regular cadence and at the same time calculating the risk radius of the high level decisions taken.
About me: I have 7 years of experience in SEO, I work as an independent SEO consultant, co-host of #SEOTalk Twitter chat (which is India's oldest digital marketing Twitter chat up and running since 2012).
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out me on Twitter: @parthsuba77 and send me an email on parthsuba77[at]gmail[dot]com
Automate The Technical SEO Stuff by Michael Van Den Reym
In this talk, Michael will show you how to automate technical SEO tasks. You will learn how to schedule and compare crawls to spot technical errors faster, how to use RPA to speed up technical SEO audits and how to automatically optimize images. You will get inspired to execute technical SEO better and faster.
Martin McGarry - SEO strategy c/o England manager Gareth SouthgateMartin McGarry
This document outlines an SEO strategy inspired by Gareth Southgate's plan to improve the England football team. It presents a three step target setting framework: 1) Be competitive in 6-12 months, 2) achieve tournament success in 1-2 years, and 3) be number one in 2-3 years. Key metrics such as visibility, site health, traffic, and time on page are identified and targets are set for each step. Accompanying tasks are mapped to the metrics and timeline to execute the plan, such as link campaigns, technical fixes, and content updates. The strategy aims to provide structure through measurable goals and accountability.
How to Generate Content that Builds it's Own LinksLizGration
This document provides a 3-step process for creating content that generates its own links: 1) Research the type of content needed, potential topics, and how to make the content better; 2) Produce the content by collecting data, visualizing it, and optimizing the content; 3) Establish visibility for the content by reviewing, refreshing, and outreaching to other sites for links. The overall recommendation is to focus on building valuable assets rather than directly seeking links, and to use multiple strategies for visibility rather than relying on just one.
How to go viral on a budget using Digital PR.pptxAlexHickson3
The document discusses how to go viral on a budget using public relations (PR). It recommends tying a product or idea into a current trend, validating the trend, identifying the target audience, crafting a compelling pitch, and developing an effective outreach strategy. Specifically, it outlines how the author launched an unknown brand called "2020 Scent" that generated over £20,000 in revenue with a campaign costing under £10 by tying scented products to viral trends from that year.
BrightonSEO - Master Crawl Budget Optimization for Enterprise WebsitesManick Bhan
For every website on the internet, Google has a fixed budget for how many pages their bots can and are willing to crawl. The internet is a big place, so Googlebot can only spend so much time crawling and indexing our websites. Crawl budget optimization is the process of ensuring that the right pages of our websites end up in Google’s index and are ultimately shown to searchers.
Google’s recommendations for optimizing crawl budget are rather limited, because Googlebot crawls through most websites without reaching its limit. But enterprise-level and ecommerce sites with thousands of landing pages are at risk of maxing out their budget. A 2018 study even found that Google’s crawlers failed to crawl over half of the webpages of larger sites in the experiment.
Influencing how crawl budget is spent can be a more difficult technical optimization for strategists to implement. But for enterprise-level and ecommerce sites, it’s worth the effort to maximize crawl budget where you can. With a few tweaks, site owners and SEO strategists can guide Googlebot to regularly crawl and index their best-performing pages.
How to Incorporate ML in your SERP Analysis, Lazarina Stoy -BrightonSEO Oct, ...LazarinaStoyanova
Google conducts 800,000 experiments and improvements to search annually to optimize search results for users. In 2021 alone, Google made 5,000 improvements to search. As of August 2022, 92% of all search queries are handled by Google. The document then provides an in-depth overview of how to conduct a comprehensive search engine optimization (SEO) analysis, including competitor analysis, entity analysis, sentiment analysis, search intent analysis, language use analysis, and rank analysis. It recommends leveraging tools like Google APIs, Data for SEO, and GPT-3 to automate the analysis and provide classifications. The analysis is intended to guide content and keyword strategy execution rather than replace it.
How to be the ultimate double agent- PR and Link Builder Isa Lavahun BTNSEO S...Isa Lavs
Traditional PR professionals are doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to link building – without even realising it. This presentation reveals some practical tips on how to tweak ‘traditional’ PR practices, that will help supercharge securing those valuable links and show the SEO value of their work.
How to leverage indexation tracking to monitor issues and improve performanceSimon Lesser
Understanding and diagnosing indexation issues is vital to SEO success, but until very recently, getting good data was nearly impossible. Google’s newly-introduced URL Inspection API opens a new world of possibilities for tracking indexation. In this talk, Simon explores how to leverage this data to monitor status, spot changes, and catch issues in realtime — no coding required!
How to produce great multilingual content, even when you can't read it | Laur...Oban International
Laura will cover the importance of multilingual, properly localised content as part of an international marketing strategy, exploring some actionable steps to making that happen and highlighting some common pitfalls to avoid.
How to create content that generates leads -- not just traffic.pptxAramintaRobertson
The document discusses how to create content that generates leads rather than just traffic. It emphasizes focusing content on customers' needs through a solid content strategy, deep understanding of the target audience, expertise-driven content, and analytics tracking. Specific tips include researching common customer questions, identifying their best potential customers, and addressing popular search queries with in-depth answers from subject experts. The goal is to solve customers' problems and generate leads through helpful, targeted content.
Brighton SEO October 2022: How your website impacts the planet - and what yo...Stuart Davies
Stu Davies, Head of Agency from Creative Bloom, local surfer and environmental campaigner slides from his talk from Brighton SEO October 2022.
It is estimated the internet accounts for 4% of Greenhouse gas emissions. As SEOs, we can play a crucial part in making the internet an energy-efficient place and do our bit to reduce that impact. Stu talks through that impact and how SEOs can help make the world greener and still deliver great rankings.
Public relations introduction for entrepreneurs and small business ownerswhytehalld
Delroy A. Whyte-Hall established AcclaimPR.com in 2009 to help small business owners with public relations. In this course, he will explain what public relations is, how small businesses can generate news, how to write a news release, and where to distribute news releases. The course covers identifying news ideas from a business, the six elements of a news release including contact info, headline, date, lead paragraph and text, and finding appropriate media outlets to send releases to for coverage. The goal is to teach small business owners how to use cost-effective PR strategies to promote their company.
Workshop Content and Social Media StrategyHarm Teunisse
This is a content & social media strategy workshop I've been executing at various companies worldwide. It covers creating a strategy and executing that strategy, next to offering simple tools for both beginner and experienced editors to get started making great content. Had great feedback on this presentation as it covers a lot of subjects without becoming to detailed to remember.
This document provides a primer on public relations strategies for small businesses. It discusses how public relations can be an effective marketing tool and explains how to write and distribute a news release. Key elements of a news release are defined, including the contact information, headline, date, lead paragraph, and text. Sample news releases are provided and analyzed to demonstrate how to identify the who, what, where, when and why. Small business owners are guided through writing their own news release and identifying appropriate publications and reporters to receive it.
10 cool things I learned at Hubspot's Inbound 2017 conferenceMorgan Simental
Two weeks ago Hubspot held their annual marketing conference in Boston. It was a great chance to learn how industry leaders use inbound marketing. Leveraging some of the insights I learned, I built some content to share with you! This deck is short, informal and covers everything from the basics to more advanced concepts. Please also forward to anyone that might find this valuable. If you have any questions, please let me know and I hope to see you at Inbound 2018.
This document provides guidance on creating effective social media measurement reports. It discusses how the role of community managers has evolved from primarily responding on social media to becoming social content strategists. It emphasizes the importance of creating reports that drive action, justify costs, and help make more money. The document outlines a framework for social media reports, including setting goals, conducting an audit, and providing weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports with focus on a few key metrics and actionable insights. It stresses keeping reports simple, visual, and aimed at answering the questions of what, how, when, and who.
The document provides guidelines for writing a resume that will stand out to hiring managers. It recommends following the 5-15-45 rule by including a headline that grabs attention in 5 seconds, an accomplishments summary in 15 seconds, and more details in the 45 second section. Key tips include using keywords from the job description, quantifying accomplishments, and having sections that reinforce each other to make a strong overall impression on the reader.
Always five value as you are asking for it.” – Make it clear to the other person why they should be covering your story.
-Do’s – Use these best practices for outreaching:
-Spend time finding the right prospects
-Make sure the content truly has value for the foreign target audience
-Make the pitch easy to scan by including only relevant information
-Communicate the added value to the recipient
-Follow-up
-Adapt the pitch if you’re not receiving any replies
-Don’t give up!
Don’ts – Avoid this:
-Not opening the outreach email with the most important information
-Not researching enough about the journalist and the magazine they represent
-Thinking your campaign is more newsworthy than it actually is
-Not explaining the concept simply enough
-Not following up
-Giving up too soon
-Not answering fast enough to media requests
The Affiliate Masters Course is an intensive 10-DAY course on becoming a
High-earning affiliate champion.
How? By “building income through content,” the proven, C T P M way!
An affiliate business is one of the easiest ways to get your feet wet in e-business.
You send visitors (i.e., potential customers) to a merchant’s Web site that you are
Representing. If they buy or complete a required action (for example, fill in a
Form), the merchant pays you a commission. No fuss, no muss!
Jasmine Granton - TTLP - Media relations for link building The Tomorrow Lab
The document provides tips for effective link building through digital PR outreach. It recommends being highly organized by creating a prospecting list with relevant publication and journalist contact details. It also stresses the importance of crafting targeted, concise email pitches that get straight to the point and make it easy for journalists to understand the value of the content at a glance. Additional tips include A/B testing subject lines, following up within a few days, and thanking journalists for any coverage. The overall message is that link building requires specificity, tailored outreach, and following best practices for email formatting and follow up.
Several years ago, a good friend of mine made the move to set up his own business. He asked me “What should I do to develop my social media profile?”
The Eight “Letters to a friend on Social Media" followed over the next few weeks and months. The basic guide to creating and nurturing a social media profile.
The themes were developed over many years of experience and at great expense. Here the letters are reproduced as a PDF. The eight letters pulled together in this short guide. Here are the first three!
1. Ten Things you must do now to set up your social media profile!
2. Fingerprints, footprints and photographs...laying a trail
3. Beacons, Cascades and R(0)s...how to improve the performance of your social media messaging...
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs to Be Thinking About in 2017Mihran Kalaydjian
The document outlines 3 things that sales teams should focus on in 2017: 1) Adding messaging to the sales process to engage prospects who are increasingly using messaging apps, 2) Fixing the broken BDR process which typically involves delayed follow up calls, by having BDRs do weekly chat shifts to engage prospects in real time, and 3) Doing account-based marketing effectively by giving valuable leads a better experience through chat instead of forms, so as not to waste money attracting leads without properly engaging them.
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs to Be Thinking About in 2017Drift
Thinking about your sales team's goals for 2017? Drift's VP of Sales shares 3 things you can do to improve conversion rates and drive more revenue.
Read the full story on the Drift blog here: http://blog.drift.com/sales-team-tips
This document provides an overview of email marketing and discusses choosing an email marketing platform. It emphasizes that properly identifying your target audience is crucial for success. It also stresses the importance of choosing the right email marketing platform, noting it must allow automated autoresponder sequences and sending of universal updates. Reverse engineering competitors is advised to determine standard practices in your niche.
8 Ways To Get You More Subscribers Fast With Very Little Effort!doryharvey
Everyone who has an on line business wants more subscribers right. This report shows you simple and easy, yet super effective ways for you to get more subscribers and grow your list which ultimately will grow your business. Don't be fooled by their simplicity, apply these techniques to your marketing and you will not only grow your business but build your brand and of course provide value to your subscribers who will love you for it .... now that's a true win win!!
Engineering Content at a Growth Startup - This Week in StartupsJohn Doherty
In this presentation for This Week in Startups, I tell startups to not have a blog but rather to focus on bigger pieces of content that they can engineer to repeatedly drive results.
This document provides information about making money as a writer or blogger by creating your own online magazine. It discusses various topics and tools that can help with writing, including keyword research, coming up with article titles, using mind mapping and outlining software, and promoting a website. Specific chapters cover niche topics to write about, keyword research tools, creating word lists, using Google for research, advice for writing articles, and connecting with website visitors. The document recommends several paid and free software programs and provides resources for setting up a blog to make money as a content creator.
Content Writing Is Sexy And How To Get Some SugarLawrence Tam
Content writing is sexy. It drives traffic, builds authority, increases your brand awareness... plus even increases your sales conversions.
Content writing is a great way to connect with your audience and building a rapport without being on the phone.
Comprendre le cold emailing - Julien Le Coupanec, Growth Hacker chez TheFamilyTheFamily
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2. Hello! I’m…
bad at Photoshop
My name’s Tom Chivers.
I’ve worked in Digital Marketing for six years,
both at agency and in-house.
I’ve created some amazing Digital PR campaigns,
and a few woefully misunderstood ones.
I’m currently working as freelance Digital PR,
so feel free to get in touch with me afterwards if
you’re in the market for that kind of thing...
3. I absolutely love
Digital PR hacks
Why?
Because if you get good at them you can turn all
your hour-long jobs into a ten minute ones.
Leaving you more time to do the things you
actually WANT to be doing.
4. But what fancy expensive tools
do I need to buy
to make my life so much easier,
I hear you ask?
5.
6. Spreadsheets
are the bees knees
They’re free and if you know what you’re doing,
they’re damn effective.
Yes, employing tools like BuzzSumo can be a huge
help when you’re doing Digital PR.
But a lot of people overlook the massive benefits
that can come from learning the time saving tips and
tricks that come from being a spreadsheet nerd.
All you need is a spreadsheet and a dream.
12. Spreadsheets are incredibly useful,
but they take practice to master
Rome wasn’t built in a day,
and your ability to do VLOOKUPS
blindfolded with one arm tied behind your back
doesn’t come to fruition overnight.
They can be overwhelming at first,
but sometimes all you need
is to be shown a few examples
to take away and learn.
13. That’s what this talk is all about.
A few practical exercises that
you can go away and try
yourself!
14. 01 - The
must-know
formulas
02 - Building a
200+ email list in
10 minutes
04 - Finding
EVERY news
syndication
05 - How to
scrape a news
website
03 - Your little
black book of
links
06 - Question
time & general
chit chat
15. Learning the tricks of the trade for becoming a
spreadsheets whizz and all around nerd.
The must-know
formulas
17. Everyday formulas
=COUNTIF
Finds data in a table, based on what you want.
If you’re working with big data sources, this is your perfect solution rather than combing through it manually.
=VLOOKUP
Gets rid of errant spaces.
If you’re trying to make a formula work, sometimes a space that you can’t see can be your undoing.
=TRIM
Counts the number of times something appears.
Great for finding out how many journalists write about a single topic, which I’ll go into a little bit later.
18. Everyday formulas
=CONCATENATE
The opposite of concatenate.
Split up a sentences into separate cells using spaces, commas, or whatever your heart desires.
=SPLIT
Replace something in a cell with whatever you like.
Can be used to change a massive bunch of journalist urls into just their names.
=SUBSTITUTE
Combines two separate cells together.
Want to combine a journalist’s first and last name from an export you’ve pulled? Use this.
20. Every once in a while formulas
=LEN
Imports data from another spreadsheet.
Tremendous for keeping internal data secret from a client while showing them results.
=IMPORTRANGE
Pulls in data horizontally.
If you’re pulling a big set of data and you don’t want it to overlap anything, this will make sure it pulls across.
=TRANSPOSE
Tells you how many characters are in a cell.
Helpful if you’re trying to weed out longer sentences using filters or even write tweets in under 280 characters.
21. Every once in a while formulas
=PROPER
If your formula has an error, this will write something specific.
If you get an #N/A that you can’t resolve, you can get it to write whatever you want in its place.
=IFERROR
Extract information from a website using a query.
Want to extract prices from a website or even a journalist’s name from an article? This is the formula for you.
=IMPORTXML
Capitalises the first word of every sentence.
It’s Really Horrible For People Who Love Sentence Case… but quite good for journalist names.
23. Pretty neat formulas
=GOOGLEFINANCE
Translates sentences to your chosen language.
Maybe not a good idea if you want to translate your outreach emails, but good for a few phrases here and there.
=GOOGLETRANSLATE
Creates custom graphs based on your data.
I’ll admit to never using this in my life, but the bar charts look cool at least.
=SPARKLINE
Pulls in up-to-date financial data.
Useful if you fancy yourself as Gordon Gecko - can be used to check currency conversions or the stock market.
24. Utilising spreadsheets to create a bulletproof
seeding list for a topic you know nothing about.
Building a 200+
email list in 10
minutes
25. Enter
BuzzSumo
BuzzSumo is an absolutely fantastic tool.
And I’m not just saying that because they
invited me to host a webinar.
But we can make it work even hard for you
than it already does…
26. How?
Say you’re building a seeding list of
journalists on a topic that’s completely alien
to you.
You can find a single article here and there,
but how do you find out which journalists
write about that topic the most?
You guessed it, BuzzSumo.
27. How, though?
BuzzSumo doesn’t have this information
within its dashboard, so you have to do a little
digging.
With some simple excel wizardry, you can
turn a data heavy export into something a
little less daunting.
29. Into this list of journalists
who write about that topic the most.
In 8 steps.
30. Step 1: Search the topic.
Go to BuzzSumo, type in your topic and click export as CSV.
This will send a file to your email.
31. Step 2: Add a new sheet to your data.
Open up that CSV in sheets and add a separate sheet.
32. Step 3: Pull through all the unique author names.
In your new sheet, write the formula =UNIQUE
and the highlight column M in the previous sheet where that big list of names lives.
33. Step 4: Count the number of articles that journalist has written.
Next to your first newly populated name, write the formula =COUNTIF
highlight the previous M column like you did before, put a comma, and then go back to the new
sheet and write A2… or whatever cell the name is in.
34. Step 5: Pull out the publication the journalist writes for.
Hop back into your sheet with all the data in and insert a new column to the right of author name,
then write the following: =REGEXREPLACE(B2,"http://|https://|www.|blog.|/.*|?.*|#.*","")
This extracts the domain from the article URL.
Don’t worry, I’m uploading these slides to slideshare so you can download them for reference!
35. Step 6: Find the publication linked to the journalist.
Hop back into your new sheet and get ready to do a VLOOKUP!
Basically, a vlookup has 3 questions you need to answer:
What you’re looking for, where you’re looking for it and in what column will you find it in.
36. Step 6 continued:
So basically,
1. You’re looking for the author’s name in A2 (which is Sam Carney)
2. You’re looking for it in columns M:N in the 1st sheet (where the author’s name and domain appear)
3. You’re looking for it in 2 (the second column)
37. Step 7: Remove all the formulas from your sheet.
To find out who the best journalists are, you’re going to use a filter, which isn’t going to work with the
formulas still there.
Just highlight columns A-C, click copy and then paste as values.
38. Step 8: Find out who the best journalists are for that topic.
Put a filter on your data and then sort Count by Z-A.
You’ve now got a ready to go list of the journalists who write about that topic the most!
39. Discover how journalists aren’t the only thing
you should keep in your little black book.
Your little black
book of links
40. Lots of PRs talk
about their
‘little black book’
When they do, they’re referring to their
database of journalists. I’m here to tell you
that you want to start building a database of
campaigns.
Because if every time you spot a campaign
and add it to your database, it’ll make you a
better PR.
41. But Why?
Not convinced? Here’s some benefits:
● It make your ideation brainstorms easier,
being able to use a wealth of past
campaigns as inspiration.
● You’ll be able to see what types of
campaign work best, especially when it
comes to link potential.
● You can use those campaign links to
discover new journalists who don’t mind
covering PR content.
42. What to include?
● Campaign title - URLs don’t often give
context.
● Campaign domain - if you’re stalking a
specific competitor, you can filter all their
campaigns here.
● Campaign type - dream job, index, most
searched?
● Company niche - what niche do the
company sit in?
● Campaign niche - companies will often do
campaigns across several niches.
● Links - how many links did this campaign
get?
44. You can then play around with the filters to your heart’s content.
Say you want to see what the best dream job campaigns are:
all you need to do is filter by campaign type and sort by most links.
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The Digital PR Examples’
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47. Great, you’ve been covered!
Now how do you find all those sweet, sweet
syndications?
Finding EVERY
news syndication
48. What’s a
syndication?
Content syndication is the practice of online
publishers republishing content across a
range of websites that they own.
Reach PLC, Newsquest & JPI Media are 3
examples of publishers that regularly do this.
It’s an absolute dream for a Digital PR who
just saw their one piece of coverage turn into
27 individual pieces.
I got links… they’re multiplyin’
49. So what’s the
problem?
Because this content will most likely have a
canonical tag, that means Google (as well as
most mentions monitoring software) will only
typically display one piece of coverage: the
original.
So how do you find those other missing 26
pieces without trawling through every news
website?
I got links… they’re multiplyin’
50. Syndicated coverage tends
to have one similarity
Look at these 3 links from a piece of syndicated coverage from Newsquest:
● https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20156433.loyalty
-cards-best-saving-shoppers-money/
● https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20156433.loyalty-car
ds-best-saving-shoppers-money/
● https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20156433.loyalty-c
ards-best-saving-shoppers-money/
What’s the thing they all have in common?
51. The url path following the
domain is all the same
Every link shares the same URL path to the letter:
● /news/national/uk-today/20156433.loyalty-cards-best-saving-shoppers-
money/
● https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20156433.loyalty
-cards-best-saving-shoppers-money/
● https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20156433.loyalty-car
ds-best-saving-shoppers-money/
● https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20156433.loyalty-c
ards-best-saving-shoppers-money/
52. Once you have one link, you
can use it as a key
Use this one link as your key to unlocking all your coverage across the web for
all the sites that publisher owns.
If you don’t know all the websites that each publications owns,
go hunting and start building a database of them!
53. That sounds well hard,
can’t you just do it for me?
Oh go on then… I’ll get you started at least.
So the main three publishers in the UK are Reach PLC, Newsquest and JPI Media.
At time of writing, I’ve found:
● 56 Reach PLC titles
● 187 Newsquest titles
● 282 JPI Media titles
And I’m going to share them all with you in template spreadsheet.
54. That looks a little something
like this…
All you need to do is drop your one link into this spreadsheet, and you’ll know in
seconds whether Reach, Newsquest or JPI have syndicated it.
55. How?
Just input your URL into B2 in either the JPI Media, Reach PLC or Newsquest
tabs depending on which publisher your article belongs to.
This then extracts the URL path for you automatically (with formula magic) and
cross references it across all the websites that belong to that publication.
Then, check the status code for each link. Simple as that!
56. Wait… Status codes?
Don’t worry, this is really easy to get your head around
if you didn’t already know.
There are plenty of articles out there explaining what
different status codes mean.
But basically, all you need to know are these three:
● 200 - this link is live
● 301 - this link redirects - check where it goes
● 404 - this link doesn’t exist
57. Your downloadable template
is available here.
Because this involves some scripts coding spreadsheet wizardry,
I’ve done all the difficult bits for you.
All you have to do is visit this template sheet and make a copy.
Be sure to include the attached scripts file, which is how the custom formula
=getstatuscode runs.
58. Make the needlessly complicated fairly easy…
with a little practice.
How to scrape a
news website
59. What do I mean by
‘scraping’?
A website is nothing more than a collection of structured data.
Scraping means you’re extracting that data from a website.
When you scrape a website, you are pulling structured data from a URL using a
query.
So, you are essentially saying:
“I know this data lives here, show me that information for all these URLs”.
60. Why bother?
99 times out of 100, a website’s structure is uniform.
Meaning it’s the same across the board.
So if the ‘price’ data for a certain product sits on one
specific place on a url, it’s a sure bet that it will be in the
exact same spot for the rest of the products on that
website.
61.
62. So what?
This means that once you know a website’s structure,
and how to write the query to extract the data you want…
You can extract that info from the entire website,
if you wanted to.
68. Picture this:
A journalist’s name appears in the exact
same spot for each news site.
Once you figure out how to write the query
for that one website - let’s say, The
Guardian - all you would need is that one
query to extract the journalist’s name from
a massive list of urls.
You could extract everyone who writes for
the Guardian sports section in seconds.
69. How do you
write these
queries?
I’m going to show you exactly how.
With painstaking detail AND a template you
can download and play with.
70. The Steps…
Go onto any publication - in this case, The
Guardian - and find out where the author is
placed on the article.
Inspect the page source (CTRL + Shift + i)
and click on the author’s name.
71. The Steps…
In the code, right click the section with the author's name in and click “copy element” then
paste this element in a Google sheet.
It should look something like this: <a rel="author" data-link-name="auto tag link"
href="//www.theguardian.com/profile/andyhunter">Andy Hunter</a>
72. The Steps…
So now you’ve got the element you’re looking for, you need to translate it into query language.
Which in this case, is: //a[@rel='author']
Basically, the query will usually be structured the same:
● What appears at the start of the line - usually a, div, span, meta, p.
● Followed by the middle of the line of the line - usually class, name, rel, property.
● And a named element - in this case, ‘author’ - in brackets.
73. The Steps…
The formula you want to use is =IMPORTXML.
All it needs is two bits of information, where you’re looking and what you’re looking for.
Which looks a little something like this:
=IMPORTXML(https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/oct/14/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-ma
nchester-city-ffp, “//a[@rel='author']”)
75. Some other examples
from other websites
Campaignlive.co.uk - <div class="articleAuthor">Staff</div>
BECOMES //div[@class='articleAuthor']
Eurogamer.net - <p class="name"><a href="/authors/63Ā">Tom Phillips</a></p>
BECOMES //p[@class='name']/a
Stuff.co.nz - <span itemprop="name" content="Stuff.co.nz">Jonathan Guildford</span>
BECOMES //span[@itemprop='name']
76. The Steps…
Basically, the point I’m trying to make here is that most of the time
all you will ever need to do is collect three bits of information:
//?[@?=’?’]
1st ? - The start of the section
2nd ? - The element within the section
3rd ? - The name of that element
77. Your downloadable template
is available here.
I’ve included the queries for 3 websites for you to play with.
All you have to do is visit this template sheet and make a copy.
Try experimenting with different sites using the same structure as the three
example websites.
Remember: you’re never going to get it right first time,
trial and error is the key to learning here!
78. Ask me about anything!
Except the football,
I’ve had enough this season.
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79. You can reach me here if you
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