Applying Journalistic Thinking & Principles to SEO
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
28 min
2 speakers
7 chapters
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The Voices of Search Podcast is a proud member of the I Hear Everything Podcast Network. Looking to launch or scale your podcast? I Hear Everything delivers podcast production, growth, and monetization solutions that transform your words into profit. Ready to give your brand a voice? Then visit IHear Everything.com. Welcome to the Voices of Search Podcast, a member of the I Hear Everything Podcast Network. Ready to expedite your company's organic growth efforts? Sit back, relax, and get ready for your daily dose of search engine optimization wisdom. Here's today's host of the Voices of Search Podcast, Tyson Stockton. I feel professional. Face endless content demands. Marketing teams need fresh approaches, audience expectations keep rising, journalists bring a unique skill set to content creation.
Yet traditional SEO often prioritizes algorithms over humans. Keyword-focused content frequently misses emotional connections, and search engines, as they continue to evolve, these tactics don't hold the same weight that they used to. How can you balance technical requirements with genuine audience engagement. This is the Voice of Search Podcast. My name's Tyson. And joining us today is Dina Rickman, Senior Director at GoFundMe. GoFundMe helps people raise funds for personal causes worldwide. Today, Dina and I are going to be discussing journalistic principles and how they can transform your content strategy and amplify your search performance. Dina, welcome to the podcast.
Thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be here. How are you?
I'm doing well. I mean, we were talking earlier it's it's hot there in the UK, so I mean it seems like a fair amount of entertainment behind that aspect.
We enjoy. Yes. Well, British people love any weather event.
Why are journalistic principles important for modern SEO strategies?
So it's uh it's there's a there's a lot to talk about here. Yeah. Actually when I left journalism, I think they in my leaving card they always mock up like a kind of front page and I got one about like I think they w they were basically just laughing at my obsession with people writing about the weather because I was like, You need to write an article about the weather because people are gonna read it. We have this thing in um England called the Met Office. And you can just phone them. They're the they're the kind of meteorol meteorologists. But they're so nice to journalists. You phone them and they give you a personal weather forecast. Um, it is insane. And I would be like, just phone them up, ask them if it's gonna rain.
And it was like it was great. Got some content.
And do you have to be a journalist to phone them or can like just the general public like call and be like, I'm curious to know what's going on today?
I'm um I'm gonna like ruin the like it's inundated now. Um you have to say you're a journalist, but they never ever checked. So I mean I think you probably get away with it once. Um one of my uh colleagues, um her surname was Rainy and when she phoned them up, uh, which is kind of a common surname, they they thought that she was uh joking and they did hang up on her. So uh if they sense the or not serious
Oh, that's that's good. Well that that gives me something. Um next time I visit the UK I'm definitely gonna have to get that number and give them a call.
Sign them now, we've got WhatsApp.
True, yeah. And just be like, Hey, I'm I'm in Germany, um, what can you tell me about the weather?
Something like that.
Well, I'm excited for this conversation today because I feel like, you know, oftentimes we're we're just talking this podcast from like, you know, like the the core like SEO professionals. And even though you've worked in SEO for quite some time, like you come from the journalist background. And so I feel like you're bringing a new a new angle, a new kind of like dynamic, which especially in In this age of content, as you know, search engines, LMs are changing, how content is being perceived. And in some ways, I feel like, I mean, I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like If I was a journalist or someone that was more on the content side, I would be almost like happy about some of these changes because it feels it less maybe like programmatic or like kind of less tactical in the sense of like content in the world of search right now versus where it was maybe like five years ago.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:51
2
Why are journalistic principles important for modern SEO strategies?
1:51–5:50
3
How did Dina’s background in journalism shape her approach to search strategy at GoFundMe?
5:50–10:10
4
What problems arise when SEO relies only on keyword‑focused tactics?
10:10–15:35
5
How can original reporting and firsthand experience boost content engagement?
15:35–21:11
6
What role does data analysis play in developing editorial intuition for SEO?
21:11–27:19
7
How do consumer‑behavior insights influence content creation and ranking?
27:19–27:59