Journo stuff I’ve collected on 08/09/2013

• Did Google just kill PR agencies? | ZDNet

  “Lots of links, lots of repeated key words, and multiple postings of a press release to different sites, are all red flags to Google under the new rules. Such actions are viewed by Google as blatant attempts to trick its algorithm into ranking a site higher than its allotted position. 

  Yet these have all become standard practices at PR agencies. Did Google just kill the PR business?”

  tags: google agencies

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.