2. What do I know?
• Consulting/implementing on multilingual online
reputation management with companies,
organizations & governments in Asia, Africa,
America & Europe.
Brands I have enjoyed working for:
3. Google has at least
57 signals, that control
what you see online.
Facebook is the same
Google and Facebook are “spying”
5. “‘Online public relations’ is a very powerful
communication/marketing tool that is being used widely
to influence multiple stakeholders – ranging from
individuals to governments”
7. Maintain & Push Back
• The process
Analyse
Background Work
Data Collection
Asset Valuation
Planning
Asset Mapping
Strategy
The Message
Implementation
Project Management
Consulting
Facilitation
Implementation
8. Target group / Internet users / media consumers
Client Message
Distribution
Online media
publication
Direct Media
distribution
News aggregators
and alerts
(e.g. Google news)
Traditional
media
Online media
Own Media,
3rd party media
and partners
Monitoringandanalysing
Media pickup
e.g. Blogs, niche news
sites, and forums,
RSS feeds etc.
The steps:
Influencing
online
Pick-up
9. But!Don’t say it often using the
exact same text.. again and
again and …
Google does NOT like that!
13. Public relations effectiveness
• Find out how many times your press release is being
read and preferably by whom.
• If your PR is being read several times in a day, it
means that it is grabbing the attention of web users
and you can use similar information for attracting
web users to your website.
14. Public relations effectiveness
• The success of a PR can be determined by the
number of impressions that it gets via press release
submission websites & RSS feeds.
• Check out how many impressions your release
receives in one day
15. Public relations effectiveness
• It is important to know how people are able to find
you on the web – Search, Images, Blog & News.
• Which search engines are they using to locate your
release, how many people are reading the entire
PR, who is skimming the headline, and who is
interacting with your press release.
16. Public relations effectiveness
• In order to measure the effectiveness of your online
PR, you must find out which keywords are attracting
people to your PR.
• The data can be used for improvising future press
releases.
17. Public relations effectiveness
• A good PR in many cases directly leads to an action.
– If you want to know whether your online public relations
generated actions or not, you might want to ask your
prospects where they heard about you.
– Then there are the analytics.
• You will be able to know whether your online public
relations efforts played any role in the decision
making process of your prospects or not.
– You might also want to look at your Analytics data and
examine the prospects behavior on your site.
18. Public relations effectiveness
• When measuring the effectiveness of your online PR,
do not forget to measure your placement against
that of your competitors.
• Find out how often and where your press release
was published against that of your competitors to
stay ahead of them, and to get the maximum share
of the market –Search real-estate.
19.
20. Public relations effectiveness
• You should measure impression shares.
• How often your brand/message was visible for a
certain search term – Searchers might not have
clicked on your press release but they saw it and by
that were influenced by it.
21. Public relations effectiveness
• Look at your onsite Analytics data before and after,
what is the impact based on the key performance
indicators (KPI) you set before you started.
• Don’t forget setting those KPIs.
22. The bottom line
• Create a communication plan
• Make sure you choose/know your stakeholders
– Consumers, voters, journalists, competitors etc…
• Don‘t be afraid to change different messages
• Use monitoring tools to see and measure impact
– Google Analytics / Piwik
– Google Alerts
– Heartbeat
– Radian 6
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How often your brand was visible for a certain search term – searchers might not have clicked on your press release but they saw it and by that were influenced by it.Look at your onsite Analytics data before and after, what is the impact based on the key performance indicators (KPI) you set before you started (don’t forget setting those KPIs).There is no one, simple, all encompassing technique to measure the effectiveness of online public relations. 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