How To Pitch Journalists To Get Links

[kaushalgandhi]

There is a very good share.


Here are a handful of the tips shared by myself and a couple others on how to get attention from the media.

• Create high quality image libraries and story outlines on the site which are available to bona-fide press only after registration.
• A large number of journalists have their own blogs or write for their publication’s blog. Commenting on their stories, adding them to your blogroll and linking to them from your blog are all great ways to get on their radar.
• When you link to a journalist, use the journalist’s name… journalists are people like everyone else. They have vanity. Most of them have set up Google Alerts for their names.
• So if you use their name in a blog post, they get a Google Blog Alert for their name.

Keep in mind your website and it’s promotional efforts can be magnified by being the topic of a news story. Being mentioned in a news source can be seen as an implied endorsement as people tend to trust what they see and hear in the news. Work the media, it can lead to increased sales and confidence in your brand.


I hope this post will be helpful for everyone. Please share your opinions for this post.

[MY]

very interesting. i wonder if the same can be applied to get links from people in other sectors. have you or other people seen good results from this?

[enKonversations]

I understand your technique but I confuse is this work?
If I will add name of any famous journalist in blog roll then it my blog will shown in Google alert to other person. But what happen if my blog content is totally different then the alert query?

[kaushalgandhi]

I have some sucess from authority websites. It is not quantity of links that you get, but quality of links..

very interesting. i wonder if the same can be applied to get links from people in other sectors. have you or other people seen good results from this?

--- Update --- please watch the double posting

You do not add names to blogroll but comment on their blog, build relations and offer content to them..

I understand your technique but I confuse is this work?
If I will add name of any famous journalist in blog roll then it my blog will shown in Google alert to other person. But what happen if my blog content is totally different then the alert query?

[bardy]

Thanks a lot for this as I am not aware of this new techniques to get links. It seems interesting and also effective too.

[dame016]

This is a very nice tip. And it's the first time that I hear about this. Do popular journalists care about small sites that link up with them?