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Earned Media

Earned Media is a marketing source that you can’t necessarily purchase, but you must work very hard to earn. Public Relations is a prime example of Earned Media. While you can’t pay a respectable journalist to write about your product in their publication, you can work hard at crafting an effective press release and making

Earned Media is a marketing source that you can’t necessarily purchase, but you must work very hard to earn. Public Relations is a prime example of Earned Media. While you can’t pay a respectable journalist to write about your product in their publication, you can work hard at crafting an effective press release and making the right contacts to ensure that your product gets coverage. The same principles apply to other types of Earned Media, such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). While you can certainly buy services that will help you with your SEO initiatives, you can’t simply buy the number one organic ranking from Google. A lot of work must go in to succeed in Earned Media. Additional information is available here.

By Amanda MacArthur

Research Director & Managing Editor

Amanda is responsible for all the articles you read on the Mequoda Daily portal and every email newsletter delivered to your inbox from us. She is also our in-house social media expert and would love to chat with you over on @Mequoda. She has worked with Mequoda for almost a decade, helping to evolve the Mequoda Method through research, testing and developing new best practices in digital publishing, editorial strategy, email marketing and audience development. Amanda is a co-author of our four digital publishing handbooks.

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