Press & Blogger Outreach
for Link Building
Rhea Drysdale | Oct. 11th 2016
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Let’s give this
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Press & Bloggers Don’t
Give a Sh*t About You
Rhea Drysdale | Oct. 11th 2016
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I love tracking
information diffusion!
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Then I did it again,
but on a local level…
We had 4 news crews
show up in a few hours!
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“Here’s my card.
Call or email me anytime
you have a good story.”
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What was the secret?
Asking for help.
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Want to know another secret?
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Want to know another secret?
I hate doing this for clients.
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Radical ideas and
newsworthy statements
are opposite of how you
probably do business.
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At Outspoken, we have to
control the content &
distribution process or
results are compromised.
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The media doesn’t give a
shit about you unless you
have a good story and they
have time to cover it.
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Because we don’t live in
this world anymore…
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Image: https://deanbeech.wordpress.com/boa-tvfilm/audience-theories/hypodermic-needle-theory/
The truth is, we
NEVER lived in
that world.
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We live in a personalized,
cross-device world.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/how-many-stories-do-
newspapers-publish-per-day/483845/
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Information is rarely
received directly from
the source.
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Google Trends:
“influencer marketing”
Identify influential groups
and their networks
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Follow the trail
Hashtags, URLs, retweets, headlines, quotes
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Where did they get
their news?
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Where did the source
of their news get their
news?
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Where did that
source get their
news?
Etc…
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Map network overlap
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Start at the beginning
with a story as it breaks
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Social Seeder Sites from my post:
- http://hotair.com/about/ - political
- http://www.dailykos.com/ - political
- http://www.theblaze.com/ - political
- http://techaeris.com/ - technical
- https://www.engadget.com/ - technical
- https://www.techdirt.com/
- http://jezebel.com/
- http://www.democraticunderground.com/
- http://gawker.com/
- http://techchuck.com/
- http://boingboing.net/
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Follow the headline
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It’s not just about
traditional press and
bloggers…
Everyone wants to be
a publisher
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Relevant
&
natural
Irrelevant
&
natural
Relevant
&
unnatural
Irrelevant
&
unnatural
Be cautious of things
like this:
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Unnatural, irrelevant surge in
referring domains = AHHHHH!
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Check the author’s
content…
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Create a quality score
for outreach targets
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Consider the news cycle!
Rise & decay pattern of story
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Don’t forget about
opinion dynamics &
PSYOPS…
A talk for another time involving drinks later on…
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Always remember your
reputation and WHY you
need coverage.
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Read the guide here:
outspokenmedia.com/reputation-marketing/
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Press & Blogger Outreach for Link Building

Press & Blogger Outreach for Link Building