When you're trying to scale up your link earning goals, consider this: Local news publications are often overlooked as opportunities for creating/pitching content.
In this MozCon presentation, Amanda explains why local news sites can be a critical part of your earned media strategy and how you can create content that's easy to localize.
3. Stacker is the world’s
leading data-journalism
newsroom, publishing
engaging research features
across a network of the
world’s most authoritative
news outlets.
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What local news sites want
● Employment & job trends
● Rent & real estate trends
● Trends in crime stats and rates
● Ways to avoid scams
● “News you can use” stories
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The topics they prefer
1. Lifestyle (arts & culture, food, pets)
2. Money (business, careers, education)
3. News (government, military, politics)
4. Entertainment (celebrities, movies, TV
shows)
5. Sports (baseball, basketball, football)
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● Who covers the topics you’re
pitching?
● Do they write about explicitly hard
news or feature news too?
● What format does their content
typically have?
Find out:
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Pitch with the local angle everywhere!
In the subject line
In the body of the pitch
In any data you share