TopRank Internet Marketing News

If you know TopRank, you know we talk a lot about news optimization and leveraging Public Relations for SEO and Search Engine Optimization for PR goals. Online PR has been a core service offering of our agency for over 8 years.

There aren’t many authorities in this area and recently, Maile Ohye from Google began speaking on the topic at search conferences. She’s also recently posted this video giving specific advice and insight into how Google News works.

PRSA Workshop:  Search Engine Optimization in a Digital World
March 20, 2009 in New York City

Today’s public relations and communications professionals need to adapt and grow with the changing digital landscape just as publishers have moved to the web. Consumers and journalists alike use a variety for search tools to discover and share credible sources of news and information. Can your news be discovered where digital media are looking? Is your text, image, audio and video content optimized for search and the social web?

 
(Lee Odden – far right – at PRSA International conference)

Writing for the Web to Optimize Your PR & Overall Messaging
Webinar Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008

1:30-3 p.m. (EST)

If you are involved in communicating with your stakeholders online, you know that writing for the Web is different than writing for print. You know that the difference between a journalist engaging with your brand online or abandoning your site altogether is based on the content you, as communicators, post or manage online.

Now is the time to take the lead and create Web content that supports your messaging, boosts engagement and delivers to your bottom-line goals.

During the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose where TopRank Online Marketing recently presented,  OBS News reported on the popularity of online news and internet public relations via the “News SEO” session on Tuesday. Moderated by Dana Todd of NewsForce, the News SEO session included Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR, Lisa Buyer of the Buyer Group and TopRank’s Lee Odden.

OBS News interviewed Jarboe and Odden after the session:

“Jarboe praised Odden as an innovative SEO expert who promotes the idea of ‘digital asset optimization’ which suggests extending a search engine optimization approach to all aspects of digital media such as photographs, videos, audio clips, in addition to traditional webpage content.”