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Online Reputation Management For Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide

Harp Interactive

TV); enlist popular bloggers to avoid Google Clustering. Use electronic and traditional PR techniques and optimized press releases. Create Wikipedia articles, electronic press releases; leave comments on forums and blogs even those with <nofollow> attributes. Create sub domains, blogs, media channels (.TV);

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PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

Adam Sherk

We found official press releases often appear word for word in first accounts of events, though often not noted as such. While many people regard press releases as little more than throw-away text, the reality is that smaller news sources in particular do in fact use that content in full or repurposed form.

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Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

Adam Sherk

The section on sources used had an interesting stat that relates to the discussion of press release usage by bloggers and local news sources. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As bloggers, we’ve all experienced it: the completely off topic pitch. There are even more bloggers. There’s no effort in adding thousands of email addresses to an address book, performing a mail merge, and sending off a generic press release. There are thousands of public relations professionals. Guess what?

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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

Waxing UnLyrical

Combining creative ability and optimization skills to create compelling, keyword relevant press releases will only prove to be a rewarding public relations effort for your company. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Mark as read Approve comment Great points! Im looking forward to reading more of your posts!

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Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites

Adam Sherk

Individual Journalists and Bloggers – participation by the editorial staff offers a great way to engage users on a more specific, personal level. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Guiding Principles for Blogging it big and good

Social Media Network Marketing

You don’t want to use your blog to just pimp your products or talk about press releases. If you already have a bunch of prolific bloggers neglect may not be an issue, but for the rest of you, and you know who you are, it really helps to have someone “in charge” of the blog. A blog can be used for so much more.