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Landing links on top-tier press
What you should be doing in a competitive
space
@CarrieRosePR
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Senior Campaign Strategist
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You don’t actually need a huge brand
name to get placements
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And I proved this…
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I did a bit of an experiment…
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@CarrieRosePR
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So, if I can do it. So can you!
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What's the trick?
I just created cool content
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So where do we start?
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Firstly, accept its getting harder
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And, secondly there’s SO much
competition!
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Journalists vs Digital PR
83,000 Digital PRs/PR vs 64,000
journalists in the UK in 2016.
In 2018, even more cuts
Journalists on average are
writing 5-8 stories a day
And they have just a couple of
hours to get something up
@DanSaunders86
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So lets put a strategy together to beat it!
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So where do we start?
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We should think about link building as a
two-step process:
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1. What can we do to earn coverage?
2. What can we do to turn that coverage into links?
@CarrieRosePR
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Start with the story and not the content
type
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@CarrieRosePR
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But how do I even come up a story?
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My secrets to coming up with BLOODY
GOOD ideas
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Ideation
1. INSPO - Constantly follow what others are doing
2. Topic Research
3. Audience Research
4. Word association
@CarrieRosePR
F o l l o w c o m p e t i to r b ra n d s
F o l l o w c o m p e t i to r a g e n c i e s
( a n d t h e i r s t a ff )
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Click Mechanic –
115 links
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If IKEA re-designed Santa's Sleigh
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Expedia –
234 links
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Superdrug–
832 links
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Ideation
1. INSPO - Constantly follow what others are doing
2. Topic Research
3. Audience Research
4. Word association
The biggest mistake people make is going into brainstorms
blind…
Do the research first!
@CarrieRosePR
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Researching TOPICS. Step 1 – GOOGLE IT!
FREE
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Researching TOPICS. Step 1 – GOOGLE IT!
FREE
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Researching TOPICS. Use tools
£137pm
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Researching TOPICS
https://answerthepublic.com/
FREE
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Researching TOPICS
63 links 31 links
94 Links
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Researching TOPICS
FREE data sources
FREE
https://www.nationmaster.com/
https://www.similarweb.com/home
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ann
ouncements
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-
tables/index.html
https://www.google.co.uk/trends/
https://www.import.io/
http://data.un.org/
https://datahub.io/
https://www.google.com/finance
http://data.worldbank.org/
http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/hpi/
https://books.google.com/ngrams
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx
https://www.worldenergy.org/data/resources/
https://datamarket.com/data/list/?q=provider:tsdl
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
http://archive.org/
http://publicdomainreview.org/sources/
http://data.london.gov.uk/
http://product.okfn.org/
http://sustainability.okfn.org/
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-
research/opendata/
https://hctrendsapp.deloitte.com/
Company financial reports
Statista - £500pm
@CarrieRosePR
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Ideation
1. Keyword Research
2. Constantly analyse what your competitors or similar
brands are doing
3. Topic Research
4. Audience Research
5. Word association
Who are they?
(De mogra phics)
Where do they “hang
out ” online?
What are they
interested in?
@CarrieRosePR
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Finding your AUDIENCE
https://radarly.linkfluence.com/login
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Paid teams usually have the best
audience data as they have to make
sure they’re paying to reach the right
people
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Finding your AUDIENCE
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Finding your AUDIENCE
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Ideation
1. Keyword Research
2. Topic Research
3. Constantly analyse what your competitors or similar
brands are doing
4. Audience Research
5. Word association
S p a S e e k e r s
R e g i o n a l l i n k s
U K c i t i e s
B u s y
R e l a x i n g
Q u i e t
C o u n t r y s i d e
V i e w s
M o u n t a i n s
B e a c h e s
S e a
S a n d
W h i t e s t S a n d
@CarrieRosePR
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Once you have your story, test out your
headline
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Ideation
Do the mum test – would your mum go oooohh that’s
interesting?
@CarrieRosePR
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So where do we start?
THE DREAM SUMMER JOB DOES EXIST Company on the
look-out for a professional ‘HOT-TUBOLOGIST’ paid to do
nothing but chill
SpaSeekers are looking for someone to become a professional spa tester,
paid £500 to spend their summer testing hot-tubs, reviewing infinity pools
and trying out treatments. Think you would be the perfect applicant? Here's
how you apply…
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Creating linkable content
Turning coverage into links!
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Create something on site which ticks at least ONE
of these boxes:
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 Adds Value
 Acts as a resource
 Is engaging
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Adding Value
62 links
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Adding Value
40 links
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Acts as a resource
2,300 links
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I s e n ga gi n g
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The Results
L I N K S / C O V E R A G E
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Following the launch of the exclusive on the Daily Mail, Staveley Head achieved 96 pieces of press/media coverage in just 9 days.
Nearly every national publication online covered the story and linked back to the interactive asset on the Staveley Head site. BBC picked it up and received 2.2 million views in 24
hours. And we got a response from the London Mayor!
18,000interactions
The Results
L I N K S / C O V E R A G E
171
Links/coverage
22,000
interactions
28%
increase traffic index in
the Taxi market
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“Cleaning of the London
Underground will be stepped up each
night over the summer period across
50 stations and five tunnels.”
S A D I Q K H A N , M A Y O R O F L O N D O N
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Campaign launch
Mayor’s announcement
Traffic.
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Campaign launch
Search visibility.
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“London Under the Microscope’ is a brilliant example of how a well structured
and planned campaign is able to deliver fantastic results in terms of brand
awareness, customer engagement and ROI - even in a relatively niche
sector...”
Client feedback.
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If they can cover the story without
linking, start again
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THANK YOU
Follow Me @CarrieRosePR
Feel free to send any questions via LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrieroseballoch/

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Landing Links on Top Tier Press - what you should be doing in a competitive space

Editor's Notes

  1. How many pages on the site are relevant – using site: searches.
  2. How many pages on the site are relevant – using site: searches.
  3. Demo
  4. So make friends with them
  5. How many pages on the site are relevant – using site: searches.
  6. How many pages on the site are relevant – using site: searches.
  7. How many pages on the site are relevant – using site: searches.
  8. We managed to achieve this with insurance company Stavely Head Challenged us to increase visibility around taxi insurance Came up with idea of working with London Met Uni scientists Swabbed London’s public transport to find out which modes were the dirtiest Everyone loves moaning about how dirty London is Then created this tool onsite with UV effect to show results
  9. Hit by phantom update in Feb – hurt for taxi terms hence taxi campaign which got them ranking again