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PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best? Vocus vs. Cision

Webbiquity SMM

Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. Media Database Cision: A Vocus: B+ Both tools offer extensive databases of publications, media professionals and bloggers. User Interface Cision: C- Vocus: D User experience, unfortunately, isn’t a strength of either system.

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Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in.

Adam Sherk

But 57% also indicated that they plan to increase their focus on SEO: That’s good news, because even just 2-3 years ago many companies’ efforts to integrate SEO and PR activities did not extend much beyond press release optimization. That’s certainly important but it’s just one tactic; there are a lot more opportunities to explore.

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Fewer PR Organizations Plan to Increase Focus on SEO and Social Media in 2011

Adam Sherk

The results of the Vocus 2011 PR Planning Survey are out and the number of organizations that plan to focus more on SEO and social media has declined. In this year’s survey 51% of the respondents indicated that they would focus more on SEO in 2011, down from 57% in 2011. So if anything more attention needs to be paid to SEO.

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12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

PR pros now use tools like Twitter, PitchEngine , PRWeb and Vocus in place of fax machines, media packets, wire services and Bacon’s , but the fundamental skills of storytelling and relationship-building remain crucial. ” 8 Steps to Leveraging PR for SEO by gShift Labs. ** 5 STARS. Social Media Marketing Social PR.

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Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Social media marketing, online PR and SEO are three tactics that are all powerful on their own, but have far more impact when used in a coordinated, synergistic manner. Optimize company news for SEO benefit? Vocus and Cision ) to the obscure ( Butterfly Publisher ). PR and SEO. Pitching on Twitter? 5 Stars **.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. And since social media and Google+ in particular have an impact on SEO there are also secondary benefits to locating influencers there. Excel or Google Docs.

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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Kim Cornwall Malseed summarizes the social media wisdom and ROI results gleaned from a panel of b2b marketing pros including Holger Schulze of SafeNet, Frank Strong of Vocus and Susan Cato of CompTIA. product innovation, branding and awareness, links for SEO benefit), though that value may be difficult to quantify.

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