In practice
Work starts with the material: original data from your platform, customer research, or a specialist view nobody else can offer. Without that there is nothing to pitch.
Then it is outreach discipline — a qualified list, a specific pitch per outlet, and follow-up that respects an editor's time.
Why it matters
Earned links and mentions build authority that paid links cannot buy safely, and they feed both classic search and generated answers.
It is also the least automatable channel we run, which is exactly why it still works.
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