The Public Relations Blog

Since 2010, Pinterest has been a valuable resource to those seeking inspiration in many areas of their lives such as their hobbies and projects. Over the years, the visual search engine has expanded its amenities to enhance its customers' experience. Gone are the days when the only content on an individual's feed came from users they followed. Now it’s a blend of pins that are “picked for you” and promotional pins as well as pins from those you follow.

This upgrade benefits companies that use Pinterest to promote their own products or services. As a company, it’s essential to put your best foot forward when designing the content you’re going to post for millions to see. Having a mixture of the various types of visual formats listed below throughout your pins will bring more personality and visitors to your company’s page.

Spice things up with some GIFs

Whether they are used for social media or to improve press releases, images are a very handy tool in public relations. You can even use them to directly improve your website’s SEO! But, have you been using GIFs?

For those who are unfamiliar, GIFs are simply animated images. GIFs can originate from anywhere, including TV shows, movies, or other media. They can have captions or just show someone doing something.

When you create a LinkedIn page for your business, you're joining a network that has more than 756 million members. People use this trusted community for networking, building a professional identity, and job searching. 

There are a couple of things you can do to help your business capitalize on LinkedIn’s features and reach the 40 million users looking for employment each week.

Social media plays a tremendous role in our world today and many companies are curious as to whether it can be used to their advantage. Cancel culture, which Merriam Webster defines as “the practice or tendency of engaging in mass canceling as a way of expressing disapproval and exerting social pressure,” has become very common across multiple social media platforms. This trend has the ability to ruin both a brand's reputation and its overall earnings if a brand makes the wrong move on social media.

Yet, there’s a reason why large corporations like Nike and small businesses still use the same social media platforms. If the posts are appropriate, the rewards are greater than the risk. 

Make your social media strategy more efficient by focusing on social media platforms that work for your company

According to DataReportal, 17 social media platforms have more than 300 million active users each month as of April 2021. This figure does not include many smaller social media platforms that still have large active user counts. With countless ways to connect with audiences at your fingertips, your company’s online public relations can reach the world through multiple platforms.

At first glance, it can be tempting to make company accounts on as many platforms as possible. The more the merrier, right? However, companies weaken their social media plans when they are overzealous.

Boosting your online presence need not be long and tiring. Use these image optimization tips and increase your website’s SEO ranking.

We know that a website’s content plays a significant role in capturing user attention. Well-planned and search engine optimization-friendly content can generate value for your users and help you build your brand. However, your website’s images also matter. 

Before we dive into what makes a podcast successful, let's briefly define what exactly a podcast is. These are popular audio essays that cover anything from current events to hobbies, history, and more. If you need information or advice on just about anything, odds are, there’s a podcast for you. 

It’s no secret podcasts are one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world. Everyone is trying to build their own podcast and figure out what it takes to host a successful podcast. But do people looking to get into the business know what it really takes to be a successful podcast?

Podcasting as we know originated from “audioblogging,” which emerged in the 1980s. A few decades later, podcasting took flight alongside Apple, with then-journalist Ben Hammersley formally coining the term in 2004.

As a marketing medium that has experienced countless remarkable changes, podcasting is an explosion fifteen years in the making.

Let’s carefully examine the current state of podcasting and what makes it so successful.

Implement effective SEO techniques for your website images to reach your target audience with ease.

Visuals and graphics are the most integral elements of all websites. Eye-appealing pictures increase web pages’ scroll down rates and keep you hooked to the website for a long time. Images indicate the authenticity and relevance of a web page and significantly helps increase search engine crawls. 

Often, businesses fail to realize the importance of implementing effective search engine optimization methods for their website images and overlook the critical role they tend to play. These techniques, which are often treated as trivial, turn out to be the essential determining factor for increasing the page’s visibility.

Explore the need for meta tag keywords and further enhance your website reach with ease

Since the inception of the internet, websites have become a decisive component in creating a brand's digital image. Most consumers are online, which is why businesses prefer to optimize their virtual platforms to attract leads. Good SEO techniques and their elements can efficiently help web pages secure more visitors. Meta tag keywords communicate with search engines by helping them ascertain the topic of a web page.

Google's algorithms are quick and smart. They seek, analyze, and provide the most relevant results to the users. In earlier days, developers filled meta tags with effective keywords, which led to their increased popularity. Let’s explore the relevance of these techniques.