Industry Today News – July 2010

What’s been happening since you have been using Industry Today?..

As you may know, press releases published on Industry Today are ‘tweeted’ to a relevant following on Twitter via the account for that category and to over 1500 followers via our main account @IndustryToday.

During the last 3 months, our press releases have been clicked on just over 12,000 times by Twitter users alone. These readers are clearly enjoying what you have to say so keep submitting press releases and we’ll keep ‘tweeting’ them!

Each category on Industry Today has an individual RSS feed and we are currently seeing around 3000 subscribers per feed as well as over 5000 subscribers to the main IndustryToday RSS feed.

With Google Publisher status each of our press releases gets instantly indexed on Google and published in Google News. Read the rest of this entry »

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Using Search Engine Optimisation within your Marketing to deliver measurable results

One of the main areas of focus for savvy Marketing Professionals is to achieve Page 1 ranking on Google. Even though this is the case, some PR Professionals have yet to embrace the search engine optimisation tactics that will ultimately enable them to do so.

There are various elements to Search Engine Optimisation, many of which can be implemented via the content management system (CMS) of your website.  Through regular updates in content to your site and a combination of intricate HTML coding, Meta Tags, Alt Tags, Title Tags etc, your website will quickly become indexed by Google and in time, appear in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). The success of a website as far as the search engines are concerned is largely to do with the make-up of the site from the back-end (CMS), not how ‘flashy’ the site looks to the user. Read the rest of this entry »

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If I upgrade for £36, what do I get for my money?

  • Your press release published and distributed via a relevant industry news portal
  • Various search engine optimised links back to relevant pages of your website (not just the homepage)
  • Include your email address to receive enquiries directly from your press release
  • A relevant image to accompany your news
  • Your press release will be tweeted to a relevant following on Twitter and via our main account @IndustryToday
  • Your news will be instantly indexed by Google
  • Your news will also appear in Google News
  • Relevant traffic (enquiries) directed to your own website

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Google’s ‘Personalised Search’ and the implications for SEO

In April 2009, Google rolled out ‘Personalised Search’ to all users, not just those who were signed in to a Gmail account. What this means is that anyone using Google is automatically presented with results that are specific to their previous searches and these are displayed above the natural results from Google.

Personalised Search is an ‘opt out’ aspect of Google which was automatically implemented and not all Google users are aware that Big Brother is fine tuning their search results. Read the rest of this entry »

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Question Your Traditional PR Firm

Many Marketing & PR Firms have been hit hard by the economic climate as a result of their client’s budgets being slashed, some have been dropped all together and the marketing function has been taken back in-house as a cost saving exercise.

If you are one of the Marketing / PR firms that this has happened to, you must be asking the question why? If you are sensible, you will re-evaluate your strategy and change your ways to ensure it doesn’t happen with any more of your clients. Read the rest of this entry »

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Why your email Marketing is not working

Have you ever conducted an email marketing campaign and wondered why you have not achieved the results that you want? You’re not alone. There are hundreds of Marketing professionals experiencing the same issues, more now than ever.

Throughout the economic downturn, Marketing Professionals were forced to re-think their Marketing plans and many turned to cost effective marketing elements such as email campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »

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How can I attract customers to my website?

Firstly, the fact that you have a website in place is already a clear sign that you recognise the importance of doing business online. Secondly, the fact that you have asked the question ‘How can I attract customers to my website?’ means that you want people to see it. This is presumably because you have had it designed to showcase your products and services and you want to promote them to new customers?

There are a number of ways to attract customers to your website, some of which will take time and money and some that are fast and in-expensive. Read the rest of this entry »

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SEO’s importance in the construction market, and why it’s changing the rules of publishing.

Post written by Will Mann

How important is search engine optimisation (SEO) to media, PR and marketing professionals in the construction and built environment market?

Let me start by providing a statistic. While I was at ContractJournal.com, around 50% of visitors to the site found us via a search engine. (The remainder came chiefly from direct links, eg. newsletters, or started at the homepage.) Read the rest of this entry »

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Optimise your Press Release for search engine purposes – Don’t just take our word for it:

Industry Today is a press release distribution service which will get your optimised news featured on Google News almost instantly. There are a number of resources from PR experts from around that world that also believe in the power of publishing optimised press releases. So don’t take our word for it, see what they have to say on the matter! Read the rest of this entry »

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What are the benefits of ‘upgrading’ my Press Release for £36 – In English please!..

Industry Today is a press release distribution service (and press relase publication service) which will allow you to ‘upgrade’ your press release for just £36 enabling you to include an image and search engine optimised links back to relevant pages of your own website from a relevant industry news portal.

The main benefits of publishing news with links to your website are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

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