A few weeks ago, I wrote about what I referred to as an SEO insurance agency news release, which I described as a news release that doesn’t go out to the traditional newswire services, such as BusinessWire or PR Newswire. Rather, it’s a news release that’s placed instead on one of the “free” or nearly free SEO new release websites, like Free Press Release. By the way, here’s a link that lists 50 of these sites: http://www.avangate.com/company/resources/article/press-release-distribution.htm
The point of an SEO news release is not so much to get journalists to cover your story; it’s to get your news release picked up by the search engines. You do this by peppering your SEO insurance agency news release with keywords and using it to acquire some “link juice” by including anchors in the news release that link back to your website.
In this post, I’ll show you how to do this. Even so-called “traditional” news releases are now optimized for websites, so you would use these same techniques regardless of whether you intend to simply post your news release with the free websites (the “SEO insurance agency news release”) or pay several hundred dollars to get it distributed via the wire services to journalists, big media and trade media. Using SEO optimization when you use a wire service just makes your news release better able to reach more audiences.
In the example below, our principal keywords are Ashland Insurance, Medford, Ashland and Southern Oregon. SmartsPro Marketing is also a keyword. You will notice that Ashland Insurance and SmartsPro Marketing are both in the headline. You can’t see it here, but in HTML, the code that’s used to print text on the Internet, headlines are enclosed by H1 header tags, which provide the strongest possible keyword formatting. In the news release, I’ve highlighted the keywords in red. To enhance our keyword strategy, we’ve included the principal keywords in each paragraph. We’ve also included back links or anchors to Ashland Insurance’s and SmartsPro’s websites in strategic places.
And that’s all there is to optimizing your news release. Otherwise, you just follow the normal process of creating a well-written news release, then make sure your keywords are placed in each of the first few paragraphs, especially the first 250 words.
Ashland Insurance Partners with SmartsPro Marketing for New Website
Medford, OR–Ashland Insurance, with offices in Medford and Ashland, Oregon, has announced its website partnership with SmartsPro Marketing. SmartsPro Marketing has helped Ashland Insurance launch a marketing and customer service website to develop new clients, build relationships with existing clients and operate as an online storefront to support the insurance-buying community in Southern Oregon. The website is at http://ashlandinsurance.com
The new Ashland Insurance website offers rich content and features to engage clients and prospects and build web traffic. The website provides extensive policy coverage information about all the lines of insurance that Ashland Insurance provides to businesses and individuals in Medford, Ashland and Southern Oregon, from personal and business property and casualty to individual and group life and health, as well as newsletters with several new articles each month covering current insurance topics. The website also reflects the Ashland Insurance team’s desire to develop personal relationships with their clients. It features biographies of all staff members, and it offers several ways for prospects and customers to find helpful information, quotes for almost any kind of insurance and access to Ashland’s insurance blog and social sites.
“We believe strongly in supporting our Medford, Ashland and Southern Oregon community and we want to help customers and prospects access any kind of insurance-related information they need,” said Steve Wilson, who is a partner at Ashland Insurance along with his brothers Jeff and Tom. “That’s why our service center not only provides claims information, but customers can request certificates of insurance and auto ID cards, receive disaster preparedness information and even get state of Oregon accident report forms.” Insurance also covers the dui penalties caused accidents.
Ashland Insurance was originally established in Ashland, Oregon and now also operates in Medford, serving all of Jackson County and Southern Oregon. Since 1981, Ashland Insurance has been helping individuals and business find solutions to their insurance and risk management needs .
SmartsPro Marketing partners with hundreds of insurance agencies throughout the U.S., providing websites, newsletter, email marketing, advertising specialty products and other marketing solutions. James Whitaker founded SmartsPro Marketing in 1988 as James Whitaker & Associates, a marketing and public relations firm specializing in the insurance industry.
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