Digital PR vs. Traditional Link Building: What’s More Effective?

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Digital PR vs. Traditional Link Building: What’s More Effective?

Digital PR strategies are one of the leading digital marketing strategies. Traditional PR relied on radio, television, and billboards, while digital PR relies on creative digital campaigns, incorporating search engine optimisation.

Digital PR

Digital PR and traditional PR share roots, both focus on creating credible, brand-aligned content. Unlike traditional methods, digital PR  provides an opportunity to publish your content online, boosting brand awareness and visibility.

Traditional Link Building

Traditional link building focuses on acquiring high quality backlinks from websites with high domain authority that are relevant to your business or industry. This involves creating linkable content, such as infographics, studies, and how-to-guides to acquire a high quality link back to your site. Digital PR, on the other hand, is designed to increase brand awareness, authority, and credibility by publishing latest news relating to your industry or business that other websites in your niche find valuable to their own audience.

Digital PR vs. Traditional Link Building: What’s More Effective?
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Why Consider Digital PR Services?

Digital PR is building your brand online. It is an effective strategy that focuses on acquiring links through online media coverage. It is often intertwined with SEO, boosting brand visibility and trust.

Digital PR offers numerous benefits, including:

The good news is that when you choose digital PR, you gain the same benefits you do when using traditional link building methods, boosting your SEO efforts, your online presence, and your brand credibility.

Digital PR Tactics

Digital PR is as unique as your business. Every publication is looking for something unique and different to share with their audience. Not every digital PR tactic will work for your business, which is why you need to understand the different content types to find the one that works best in your industry.

In order to secure the backlinks you need, you will want to study on data-driven reports and research studies. It's essential you create content that people want to share. 

Why is Digital PR Different?

Digital PR is targeting brand publications to boost audience trust, boosting your reputation. It is unlike traditional link building, that focuses on acquiring backlinks to boost your SEO efforts.

Digital PR involves publishing articles that are not SEO assets. They are designed to improve your online image, helping your audience find your website without having to rely on Google.

Is Digital PR The Right Choice For You?

Digital PR campaigns require more investment than traditional link building. Those that work with digital PR tend to work closely with SEO teams helping them discover opportunities to ensure your visibility is given a boost. 

Digital PR campaigns run over numerous months to achieve results, offering excellent rewards. They improve exposure, driving referral traffic, helping you gain quality leads from high authority domain websites, helping to improve your ranking in search engine results pages (SERPs).

Conclusion

Digital PR is building relationships with publications and journalists, giving your consumer something to share and talk about. It is about promoting your business in the best possible way. Do you need help with your digital PR campaign or you link building strategy? The Genie Crawl team are here to help you drive your business forward.

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