How to Measure Digital PR Beyond Link Counts
Measure digital PR campaign performance by tracking relevant coverage, referral traffic and reader actions against a baseline.

Technical and measurement editor
Theo Bennett is the technical and measurement editor at Approve SEO. Theo covers crawler verification, website maintenance, analytics interpretation, software contracts and the limits of benchmark data. Articles draw on official documentation and other identified primary sources, with practical checks readers can reproduce on their own sites. Examples are labelled when they are illustrative rather than measured results. Theo's portrait is an illustration drawn in Approve SEO's house style. Source suggestions and corrections are handled through Approve SEO's editorial contact route.
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Last updated October 23, 2026
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Measure digital PR campaign performance by tracking relevant coverage, referral traffic and reader actions against a baseline.
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