PR Wire Services Google Meltdow

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Edwin Jonk: PR sites are getting hit?
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  David Amerland: PR Wire Services Google Meltdown
  
  Right out of the gate in my very first #smtpowertalk  ;for +Social Media Today ;(http://goo.gl/rgggs3) we hit on some spot on trends. +Steve Martin ;called it first when he suggested the PR industry has had its day, unless it changed and my other guest, +Alex Cote ;drove the point home when he said that unless you are prepared to be human and establish relationships no amount of apps is going to save you. ;
  
  The latest stats to come out of PR wire services show that Google has seriously deprecated what once used to be an easy SEO win (http://goo.gl/y6sAEl) that drove traffic to websites and even generated a number of mentions and citations. ;
  
  Marketing, across the web, is definitely getting tougher if you're still a traditional marketer locked into a mass-broadcast model of communication. For those who are in the know marketing has indeed become a means through which relationships are build before any business can take place. ;
  
  Traditional marketing is living the last sands of an inverted hourglass. ;
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  Emil Engholm Sørensen: Duplicate Content +Edwin Jonk ;? They are full of it.
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  Edwin Jonk: Sure it can be panda. Going to set up some projects on +SEMrush ;.... ;
  
  P.S. that screenshot is from semrush ;-)
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  Emil Engholm Sørensen: Good idea. Oh sorry didnt see that :-)
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  Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 02:36:02 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/pr_wire_services_google_meltdown +Edwin Jonk
  
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