Football Media

Football blogs and bloggers are still an afterthought to PR agencies. There are exceptions (the folks at M&C Saatchi are generally clued in) but by and large, they don’t understand how bloggers tick and they don’t understand how to use blogs to deliver the type of ROI that looks good for their bosses. At the end [...]

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If you’re looking to get more traffic to your football website, news aggregators are often the easiest and quickest source. The big one in football is NewsNow but there are several other smaller but still effective headline aggregators. Here’s a full list: (more…)

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Written by Chris Nee, the editor of twofootedtackle Blog Network and a social media planner at Porter Novelli. Many of you will have come across PR people in your football writing careers and may have developed positive or negative perceptions of the industry and its people based on those experiences. Here at Football Media we’d like [...]

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Football bloggers are (usually) intimately familiar with Google – their first blog was probably on Blogger, their first ad network was probably AdSense and their first concern in getting traffic was to get links to their site so that they can get traffic from Google’s search engine. You probably use Analytics, iGoogle and Google Reader [...]

Posted by: Ahmed Bilal Posted under: Football Blogging, Promotion Comments: 1

Previously we talked about how to get your football news site listed in NewsNow. That’s only half the battle though – once you’re in, you also need to know how to maximise exposure and traffic from NewsNow. Here are a few suggestions to help you maximise traffic to your football news site from NewsNow: (more…)

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NewsNow (Football) is, at the time of writing, the easiest source of traffic for football bloggers. Yes, Google (search, images and news) may get you more traffic and social media sites like StumbleUpon can also bring in plenty of traffic, but NewsNow makes it easy. Once you’re in, you just need a catchy headline and [...]

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