Digital PR
Coverage That Builds Authority Where It Counts
Digital PR earns the links, mentions and coverage that no other channel can buy. It is how a brand becomes one that journalists cite, Google trusts and AI models associate with its category. We run campaigns sized to your market, from national data stories to the trade titles your buyers actually read.
Some of the brands we have worked with
What we do
Data-led campaigns
Original research, surveys, FOI requests and analysis of public datasets turned into stories with a headline journalists want
Expert commentary
Positioning your people as the go-to voice on news in your sector, with fast-turnaround reactive pitching
Trade and vertical PR
The specialist titles, associations and newsletters that reach your buyers directly and carry weight with search engines for your topic
Regional PR
Local and regional press for multi-location and area-based businesses, which also feeds local search signals
Product and launch PR
Coverage for new services, tools, reports and milestones
Link reclamation
Converting unlinked brand mentions into links and fixing lost ones
Why digital PR matters for search now
Google's spam systems have made purchased and low-quality links a liability. Earned coverage from real publications is the authority signal that remains reliable, and it compounds: a strong link profile makes every other SEO activity work harder. At the same time, large language models build their understanding of which brands matter in a category partly from press coverage and the discussion it generates. A brand that is regularly quoted in relevant publications is far more likely to be named in an AI answer. Digital PR is the one activity that moves both.
How campaigns run
We start with a story audit: what data, expertise, opinions and assets you have that a journalist would care about, and what has worked in your sector before. From that we build a campaign calendar with two or three planned pieces a quarter plus reactive capacity. Each piece is researched, designed and pitched by us to a targeted media list, with coverage tracked and reported by publication, link status and estimated reach. You approve every angle and quote before it goes out.
Realistic expectations
Digital PR is not a guaranteed-placement service. Some campaigns land dozens of pieces of coverage, others land a handful in exactly the right titles, and occasionally a story does not land at all despite a strong pitch. We size programmes across multiple campaigns so results average out, and we are honest in advance about what a given budget can expect in your sector.
Who it suits
Established businesses with something to say: a point of view, data, a differentiated product or expertise a journalist would want to quote. Brands in competitive sectors where authority is the bottleneck. Businesses that want to be cited in AI answers and understand that requires being cited by humans first.
Digital PR and Content
Related services
Link Building
Authority is still the hardest ranking factor to fake and the one that separates page one from page three in competitive sectors.
Content Marketing
Content is the raw material every search platform runs on, from Google's index to the retrieval systems behind ChatGPT.
Generative Engine Optimisation
When your customer asks ChatGPT, Google or Perplexity who to use, one or two brands get named and the rest are invisible.
SEO Services
Every account at Essheo is worked by a senior SEO, not handed down to a junior after the pitch.
Insights
Latest guides
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Traditional PR measures reach and sentiment. Digital PR measures those plus the links, mentions and search visibility the coverage creates. We plan for both but report on the search impact.
We do not promise a number. Typical quarterly campaigns in our client sectors earn between five and thirty linked placements, with wide variance by story and market.
In heating, renewables, home improvement, property, finance, legal and e-commerce, yes. In other sectors we build the list from scratch, which we do for every campaign anyway because contacts move constantly.
Yes. Retained clients get reactive capacity for newsjacking and comment requests, which often produces the best national coverage.
Yes. Regional coverage and local citations support Google Business Profile visibility and local pack rankings.
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