How to Build Market Awareness, Improve Search Rank, and Increase Sales Using SEO P.R.

Sending out press releases with news, updates, and developments about your company is a great way to build marketplace awareness and generate potential sales.

Implementing a search engine optimization plan that enhances your website content with the right keywords is a great way to increase your company’s search rank and attract business.

Unfortunately, most companies don’t realize that if they combine these two tactics, they’d make each of them even more valuable.  They’d also achieve long lasting results that would deliver measurable benefits with tremendous return on investment.

The merging of these two disciplines is called SEO public relations, or SEO p.r. for short.

SEO p.r. unites the craft of press release writing with the metrics of SEO keyword research.  It allows you to tell a compelling story that attracts immediate attention and creates clicks to your site both now and into the future.

The first step in building an SEO p.r. news release is to create your release.  Focus on one single message that you’d like your readers to remember and write clearly, simply, and concisely.

Next, use a research tool to determine the keywords that are most relevant to your product or service and are most searched by your target audience.

After that, go to the websites of your competition and analyze the keywords that they use.  This will give you ideas of additional keywords that could be helpful to include in your SEO p.r. news release.  Using particular keywords of your larger competitors can help you to leverage their superior market position and actually divert traffic from their site to your site.

Finally, after reviewing your list of top keywords and your competitors’ list of top keywords, create a working list of the most desirable gold nugget keywords with the most relevance to your product or service, and are also the most searched by your target audience.  Take these keywords and sprinkle them throughout your news release.  Substitute them for other words that you may have used in your news release that don’t pack as much SEO punch as the ones that you’ve compiled.

You now have an SEO p.r. news release that will have value and deliver benefits far beyond the usual news cycle of 5 to 7 days that most news releases have.  Your release will come up in the results when people search for the keywords that you’ve sprinkled in, and you’ll be able to attract that traffic.  Your SEO p.r. news release will also help to increase your search rank, generate backlinks to your site from the sites that use your news release, and get you discovered by new potential customers.