Digital PR

At ROAST, our Digital PR services focus heavily on the SEO and GEO benefits, producing the most impactful content and partnerships that will increase authority in the eyes of major search engines and emerging AI platforms.

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How do our Digital PR services help your business?

How do our Digital PR services help your business?

Digital PR helps brands become authorities within their sector and within organic search algorithms. By acquiring high-value backlinks from trusted publications, client websites will themselves become more prominent in organic rankings. 

Think of it this way: every quality backlink acts as a signal to search engines that your content is credible and worth surfacing to users. When The Guardian, BBC, or industry-specific publications link to your site, they’re transferring some of their established trust to you. This isn’t just theory—backlinks remain one of Google’s top-ranking factors. 

But there’s another layer now. Increasingly, Digital PR also ensures our clients are included as the referred citations within AI-generated search results. As AI Overviews and chatbots like ChatGPT pull information from across the web, they prioritise sources that have strong domain authority and credible backlink profiles. If your brand isn’t mentioned in authoritative publications, you simply won’t appear in these AI-generated answers. 

The benefits compound over time. A single well-placed piece of coverage can drive referral traffic for years, whilst simultaneously boosting your site’s authority for organic search. 

ROAST’s Digital PR services

We’ve built our approach around what actually moves the needle for SEO and brand visibility. Here’s how we do it:

Digital PR Strategy

We don’t start with pitching. We start with understanding your business goals, competitive landscape, and the publications that matter in your sector. Our Digital PR strategy begins with a thorough audit of your current backlink profile and an analysis of where your competitors are getting coverage.

From there, we identify the gaps and opportunities. Which publications would deliver the most SEO value? What topics and angles would resonate with journalists whilst supporting your target keywords? We map out a roadmap that aligns PR activities with your broader marketing objectives, ensuring every campaign serves a strategic purpose.

Data-Driven Content Creation

Journalists are inundated with pitches. What cuts through is genuinely interesting content backed by solid data. We specialise in creating data-driven stories that publications actually want to cover.

This might involve conducting original research, analysing industry trends, or finding fresh angles in existing data. We’ve created campaigns using everything from Google search data to social media analysis to uncover stories that spark journalist interest. The content we produce isn’t just PR fluff—it’s substantive, newsworthy material that earns links naturally. As more brands compete for coverage, building relevant and creative campaigns that stand out is essential.

Relationship Building With Publications and Journalists

Effective Digital PR isn’t transactional. As a Digital PR agency London-based with years of experience, we’ve cultivated relationships with journalists, editors, and publications across multiple sectors. These relationships matter because journalists are more likely to cover stories from sources they trust.

We maintain an extensive database of media contacts, but more importantly, we understand what each journalist covers and what makes them tick. We don’t spam irrelevant pitches. Instead, we match the right stories to the right contacts, building goodwill that pays dividends across multiple campaigns.

Outreach

Once we’ve created compelling content, the outreach phase begins. This is where strategy meets execution. We craft personalised pitches that speak directly to each journalist’s beat and recent coverage. Generic mass emails don’t work—personalisation does.

Our outreach doesn’t stop at the initial pitch. We follow up strategically, provide additional information when requested, and make journalists’ jobs easier by supplying quotes, images, or data visualisations they can use immediately. Speed matters too. When we identify a trending topic that aligns with your brand, we move quickly to position you as an expert source.

Link Building

Whilst some agencies treat link building and Digital PR as separate disciplines, we see them as interconnected. Every piece of coverage we secure is evaluated for its SEO impact. We track domain authority, relevance, and the quality of the linking pages.

We also pursue strategic partnerships and collaborations that result in high-quality backlinks. This might include expert roundups, thought leadership articles, or partnerships with complementary brands. The goal is always quality over quantity—one link from a highly authoritative, relevant site is worth more than dozens from low-quality directories. Our approach integrates content marketing strategies with Digital PR to maximise impact.

Digital PR FAQs

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What is Digital PR?

Digital PR is the practice of securing online coverage and backlinks from digital publications, blogs, and media outlets to increase brand visibility and improve SEO performance. Unlike traditional PR, which focuses on print and broadcast media, Digital PR specifically targets online channels that can directly impact search rankings and digital authority. 

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What is the difference between Digital PR and Traditional PR?

Traditional PR focuses on securing coverage in print newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. The primary goal is brand awareness and reputation management. Digital PR, on the other hand, targets online publications and measures success through metrics like backlinks, domain authority, referral traffic, and improvements in search rankings. Whilst traditional PR might celebrate a mention in a print magazine, Digital PR prioritises coverage that includes a followed backlink to your website. 

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How can Digital PR help my brand?

Digital PR can help your brand in several concrete ways. First, it builds domain authority through high-quality backlinks, which improves your organic search rankings. Second, it drives referral traffic from the publications that feature your brand. Third, it positions you as an authority in your sector, which builds trust with potential customers. Finally, it ensures your brand appears in AI-generated search results and overviews by establishing citations in authoritative sources. 

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How do you measure success in Digital PR?

We measure Digital PR success through several key metrics. These include the number and quality of backlinks secured, measured by domain authority and relevance. We track improvements in organic search rankings for target keywords. We monitor referral traffic from coverage, as well as overall increases in branded search volume. We also assess the quality of publications where coverage appears and the estimated monthly reach of those placements

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What Are the KPIs for Digital PR?

Key KPIs for Digital PR include: 

  • Number of high-quality backlinks acquired 
  • Domain authority of linking sites 
  • Referral traffic from coverage 
  • Improvements in keyword rankings 
  • Increase in overall domain authority 
  • Coverage in target-tier publications 
  • Estimated reach and impressions 
  • Branded search volume increases 

The specific KPIs we prioritise depend on your business objectives. For some clients, securing coverage in a handful of top-tier publications matters most. For others, the volume of backlinks and measurable ranking improvements take priority. 

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