Digital PR Agency Manchester

Digital PR Agency Of The Year 2023

Proven Track Record

We have a proven track record of delivering solid Digital PR strategies which land links & great coverage for your brand.

With over eight' years direct Digital PR experience, we know what works & have a great record of getting content covered even in tricky verticals.

Commercial Value

We don't just build links, we drive commercial value by creating effective Digital PR which focuses on high intent, revenue driving areas of your website and brings real world value to them.

Digital PR is a lot more than just links and relevancy plays a key role in success.

100% Earned Links

We're proud to say that we don't buy links, every single link that we build is done through Digital PR - we don't work with external companies to buy links on our behalf & never have.

We are so confident in our service and our ability to build links that we would never look to buy links, in addition to it being very bad practice! 

What is Digital PR?

Content Reviewed & Fact Checked By Amanda Walls, Director

Content Updated: 05/07/2023

Digital PR is a term widely used for modern-day link building – think traditional PR tactics, applied online – but in practice Digital PR is so much more than that, it’s about amplifying your brand presence, products and/or services while driving SEO value at the same time & linking the two together can make for powerful online marketing and drive solid visibility across your brand. 

As the demand for more organic, creative content has taken shape, marketers have realised they can use PR tactics to win links & coverage online. The shift towards applying offline PR tactics to digital media reflects Google’s demand for higher quality content & its need to add value to the user. Digital PR is harder than just fixing some broken backlinks on your website; marketers need to understand the digital media landscape, what their target audience reads online, how they can create engaging content & how they can get this content published in high quality publications & newspapers.

Digital PR can involve a range of approaches from Proactive & Reactive Newsjacking, through to Thought Leadership, Media Monitoring, Campaign creation & also Product Placements – each of these are designed to work together with your product/service & the media to amplify your presence, brand awareness & of course sales/leads.

Whether you call it link building, outreach or Digital PR, the goal is pretty much the same; using creative & innovative content strategies to get links & coverage online.

Working With Market Leading Brands...

From medium-sized businesses through to large multinationals (and internationals!) we've
worked with a range of clients to deliver great results.

To Deliver Award Winning Results...

How Does This Manchester-Based Agency Approach Digital PR & SEO?

Link building is the process of creating links from other people’s websites to your own to improve your SEO rankings. These links are known as backlinks because they link back to your website.

In the past, marketers used quick-win tactics to secure lots of backlinks to try & manipulate search rankings. This included posting lots of links as comments on forums or creating lots of poorly-written articles on low quality blogs. 

Google however quickly caught up with these tactics & released an update (Google Penguin Update) to encourage marketers to adopt a more holistic approach to link building (they also penalised lots of websites who were hammering the old tactics in the process – ouch!). 

As a result, marketers had to adapt their approach & switched to utilising other channels such as Digital PR to drive links into the websites. Today, Digital PR is widely used for SEO link acquisition & focuses on creating engaging, useful content that your customers want to read, as well as establishing genuine relationships with top tier publications & high quality media all while keeping relevancy to the client at the heart of the approach. One relevant, authoritative, expertise-driven link is far more valuable than hundreds of lower quality links & as such this is the focus being key Digital PR campaigns.

At Cedarwood we know how important relevance, authority & expertise are to both your SEO & Digital PR campaigns, that’s why when we ideate we will always keep your business & your core values at the heart of the matter – ensuring everything that we do ties back closely to your offering, keeping our work relevant & always with the key target market in mind.

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Digital PR Case Studies

Don't just take our word for it - read through our wide range of case studies to find out how
we've delivered great results for companies across the UK & overseas.

Hayes Garden World

Ecommerce

Newsjacking:
Lonely Plants Club

⚡️ Links: 23
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 78

Newsjacking the end of lockdown to help provide insight into how lonely plants can get when their owners leave home.

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Patient Claim Line

Lead Generation

Survey:
COVID19 & Medical Treatment

⚡️ Links: 130+
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 54

Working with our client’s in-house expertise to discuss medical treatment delays due to COVID-19 & the rights around this.

VIEW CASE STUDY

Little Loans

Lead Generation

Campaign:
Thought Leadership

⚡️ Links: 40+
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 68

Helping to drive links to the Little Loans website through Thought Leadership initiatives & expertise.

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Mist E Liquid

Ecommerce

Survey:
Pet Smoking Survey

⚡️ Links: 39
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 70

Launching a survey to find out how much the average Brit knows about how smoking can affect their pet.

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EZ Shopper

Ecommerce

Product Placements:
Gaming Desks

⚡️ Links: 38
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 66

Working with our client to land great exposure (and links!) from national & niche retailers for their range of gaming desks.

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Watches2U

Ecommerce

Newsjacking:
Love Island Couples

⚡️ Links: 15
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 52

Evaluating how long Love Island couples last after the show to generate a great clickbait infographic for regional & mainstream media.

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Fletchers Solicitors

Lead Generation

Newsjacking:
Road Fines

⚡️ Links: 60+
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 72

Capitalising on trending topics by offering expert commentary and data led details to offer valuable insight to the audience.

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Cash Lady

Lead Generation

Campaign:
Cheapest Roast Dinners

⚡️ Links: 112+
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 55

Reviewing the UK’s leading supermarkets to identify which supermarket provides the ingredients for the cheapest roast dinner.

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Cycle SOS

Lead Generation

Newsjacking:
Earphones Fines

⚡️ Links: 53+
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 66

Jumping On Trending News Topics To Drive High Quality Relevant Links.

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Bobbi Beck

Ecommerce

Campaign:
Thought Leadership

⚡️ Links: 33
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 78

Delivering strong expertise-led coverage for a wallpaper brand, designed to drive high quality, relevant links into the website and help to build awareness and authority.

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The Electronic Cigarette Company

Ecommerce

Data:
TV Show Complaints

⚡️ Links: 52
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 70

Evaluating data to look at the ten most complained about shows of 2022.

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KingCasinoBonus

Gaming

Data:
The "Odds Of"

⚡️ Links: 21
⚡️ Average Domain Rank: 77

Using data to evaluate the "odds of" certain events happening to drive data-led Digital PR coverage for the website.

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Our Testimonials & Reviews

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Digital PR Services

Press Releases

Got a great story to share but don’t know how to tell it? We can help with that. Whether you want to share a company update, create a video, visually illustrate data or just make some noise about a cause you care about, our creative team can help you to share your story with the right medium, at the right time & with the right people.

Newsjacking

Newsjacking is a great way to get your brand in front of an audience when people are talking about a given topic. Working with a range of tools that allow us to identify upcoming trends we’re able to identify trending topics & put your brand front & centre of the conversation, driving valuable links & coverage for your brand.

Gap Analysis

We will undertake gap analysis to identify where your opportunity in the market is – both in terms of analysis on your website and also where your competitors are gaining links. This helps us to understand how we can best grow your brand and SEO performance and how we can best target our efforts.

Thought Leadership

After conducting interviews with key stakeholders in your business, we can identify Thought Leaders & work with them to share their expertise within industry publications & media. Thought Leadership is very valuable for both Digital PR & SEO as it helps to drive across the key concept of expertise within your brand.

Product Placements

Product placements are a great way to get your product visible to your audience & also to drive those valuable referral sales through to your website. We’ll work with you to identify the right products to outreach at the right time landing placements in key nationals, on top 10 lists & also in the niche publications with the audience that you want to target.

Media Monitoring

Our media monitoring tools including Response Source & Vuelio are designed to allow us to listen out to journalist requests & respond to them in a timely manner with your product, service or expertise. Working closely with media listening tools (including Twitter) – we are able to provide information to journalists when they are looking for it, getting your brand in front of your audience.

What Are The Benefits Of Digital PR?

Effective Digital PR & Link Building will not only generate links but also create trust, excitement & buzz around your brand.

Some benefits of link building include:

  • Generates links from credible websites & publications
  • Improves search rankings for the pages that links point to
  • Increases relevant traffic to your website
  • Creates natural “earned” links that haven’t been sponsored or paid for
  • Raises brand awareness with your target customer
  • Increases visibility of your brand online
  • Influences purchasing decisions
  • Inspires brand loyalty.

 

What Our Industry Peers Say

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Digital PR Agency Manchester FAQs

Content Reviewed & Fact Checked By Amanda Walls, Director

Content Updated: 05/07/2023

Links are often seen to be one of Google’s most important ranking factors, so they’re pretty important when it comes to helping your website rank. High authority backlinks can be a vote of confidence in the eyes of Google & an indication that your website is valuable & worth linking to.

Studies have shown that Google gives more credit to websites that have a higher volume of relevant, trustworth backlinks – but it’s about quality, not quantity when it comes to website links. Securing a good selection of high quality links from trusted websites that showcase your expertise & are relevant to your brand can add great value to your SEO offering & your website’s performance. This in turn allows you to showcase E-A-T which is a key ingredient to a successful SEO campaign.

When we talk about trust, links play a key role in the full mix, so using a Digital PR based approach is a great way to ensure that you have both on and offsite trust. 

No – absolutely not, but they do play a key role in both growing referral traffic to your website & visibility, in addition to adding that all important SEO value. Digital PR is about showcasing your brand, product or service online, in front of a targeted, engaged audience who wants to know more about what you have to offer – it’s growing your presence in a similar way to traditional PR but in an online space.

From a backlinks perspective, Digital PR is one of the best ways to build high quality links to your website which do of course add huge SEO value & many people when considering how to optimise their SEO campaigns see improving the quality of their inbound link profile as a key way to do this. While this is completely right & should be seen as so, there’s no reason why Digital PR can’t drive great SEO value & visibility at the same time – after all relevance is key for SEO so putting your product/service in front of the right audience will add value in more ways than just links!

You may have often heard the terms “do-follow” & “no-follow” links thrown around when it comes to Digital PR & it’s true, there is a difference between them. “do-Follow” links are links which pass authority through to your website whereas “no-Follow” links don’t – however it’s often stated that both no-follow links & just citations have implied link value so they are definitely still valuable to build & it’s great to have diversity across your link profile.

Remember – effective link building and Digital PR does so much more for your website than just creating a link, such as raising brand awareness, generating traffic and giving your brand massive exposure on top tier publications. So, the value shouldn’t be solely placed on whether the link has a tag or not. (‘followed’ links pass link equity to your website, whereas links tagged with a code don’t pass link value in the eyes of Google. But they’re still valuable!)

Link building and Digital PR is about creating interesting, insightful and engaging content, as well as building strong connections with journalists and relevant media. So, to get more links to your website, start building great content and contacts. Reach out to industry publications, small business websites or magazines that your consumer reads. Offer to write articles, share company updates, offer product reviews or share your market insight. Create genuine connections, offer genuine, relevant and useful information, and you’ll soon start reaping the SEO rewards. 

Alternately – work with a company that does this for a living! A good Digital PR agency will have all of these basics downpat, along with some great journalistic relationships – this is a key ingredient to success.

Defining links as good or bad isn’t always the best way to approach it – you would be better to consider whether a link is relevant & adds value to your website, or if it doesn’t. It’s also worth considering whether that link is actually drawing good referral traffic through to your website – as referral sales are another great product of well-targeted Digital PR & are definitely something you should be aiming for if you have an ecommerce business!

Good links are fairly self-explanatory – they are genuine links from trustworthy sources which are relevant to your website. They are acquired naturally through Digital PR & generally offer some level of value to the user, this can be through your expertise or research, which helps to showcase the expertise of your brand – another great trust signal for Google!

By contrast, poor quality backlinks can potentially harm your website – Google penalises link profiles which are heavy in poor quality links – mainly as these tend to be the result of poor SEO practices or dodgy over-optimisation! Regular link auditing will help to ensure that you are keeping your link profile in check & free from any potential penalties.

“Bought links” are a bit of a dirty word in the SEO industry – and for good reason – in 2022 your link acquisition strategy should not be built around buying links. In the past, marketers used to pay websites to post their client’s content & link back to their client’s website, often on mass scale & with content that was poorly written & didn’t have any relevance or connection with the website it was posted on. Google saw this as manipulation tactics & penalised websites who did this.

However, paid for links do essentially still exist & they aren’t all bad – you just need to label them correctly. If you take out an advertorial in a newspaper, for example, you’ll likely get a paid-for link, but this isn’t bad, you just need to make sure you attribute any sponsored links with the “no-follow” & “sponsored” tag to let Google know that you’ve paid for that link through an advert.

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