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title: "Digital PR, Brand Mentions & E-E-A-T — free course"
description: "Earn coverage, build a recognized brand entity, show up accurately in AI answers, and demonstrate experience, expertise and trust"
url: https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority
updated: 2026-10-05
---

SEO · Advanced · 322 minutes · free · updated Sep 2026

# Digital PR, Brand Mentions & E-E-A-T

Earn coverage, build a recognized brand entity, show up accurately in AI answers, and demonstrate experience, expertise and trust

- **Lessons:** 14 in 5 modules
- **Video lectures:** 14 lectures, 116 minutes
- **Updated:** Sep 2026

## Tools you'll use

- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics 4
- Google Alerts
- Google Trends
- Schema Markup Validator
- Rich Results Test
- Python
- pandas
- Anthropic API
- HARO
- Qwoted
- Featured
- Source of Sources
- ResponseSource
- Ahrefs Brand Radar
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
- Google Business Profile
- Wikidata

[Start the course](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/what-makes-a-story-newsworthy)

## About this course

Search engines and AI answer engines increasingly reward brands that are **recognized, cited and trusted**. This advanced course shows you how to build that recognition through digital PR and brand authority work — ethically and measurably.

You will learn how journalists judge newsworthiness, run a repeatable campaign process, and build data-led campaigns from public data and surveys with a reproducible Python workflow. We cover press releases versus pitches, reactive PR, and a current playbook for journalist request platforms including the relaunched HARO, Qwoted and Featured. We then turn to trust: thought leadership, compliant reviews under Google's rules, the US FTC reviews rule and the UK DMCC Act; entity signals, E-E-A-T and author pages; knowledge panels; and how to measure and improve brand mentions in AI search and LLM answers. Finally, you will measure PR with a balanced scorecard aligned with Barcelona Principles 4.0 and build AI-assisted PR workflows with human QA. Examples draw on the UK, US, UAE, KSA and Pakistan.

## What you will learn

- Evaluate and score campaign ideas using news values, hooks and brand relevance
- Build data-led campaigns with sound methodology and a reproducible audit trail
- Write releases and pitches, win reactive coverage and run journalist request platforms well
- Build thought leadership and compliant review programs under platform rules and consumer law
- Strengthen entity signals, E-E-A-T, author pages and knowledge panels
- Measure and improve brand mentions and citations in AI search and LLM answers
- Measure PR with a balanced scorecard and run AI-assisted PR workflows with human QA

## Course content

### Newsworthy campaign ideation

Understand what journalists consider news, run a repeatable campaign process, and build data-led campaigns with sound methodology.

- [What makes a story newsworthy](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/what-makes-a-story-newsworthy): 13 min
- [From ideation to launch: running a campaign](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/from-ideation-to-launch): 14 min
- [Data-led campaigns: original research, surveys and public datasets](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/data-led-campaigns): 8 min

### Press releases, pitches and journalist requests

Know when to write a press release versus a pitch, win reactive coverage, and run journalist request platforms with a triage system.

- [Press releases vs pitches](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/press-releases-vs-pitches): 12 min
- [Journalist request services and reactive PR](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/journalist-requests-and-reactive-pr): 12 min
- [Journalist request platforms: HARO, Qwoted, Featured and a triage system](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/journalist-request-platforms): 9 min

### Thought leadership, reviews and reputation

Build recognized expertise through thought leadership, and manage reviews and reputation within platform policies and consumer law.

- [Thought leadership that builds authority](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/thought-leadership-that-builds-authority): 12 min
- [Reviews and reputation management](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/reviews-and-reputation): 13 min

### Entities, brand signals and E-E-A-T

Help search engines and AI answer engines understand who you are, demonstrate E-E-A-T, and measure brand mentions in AI answers.

- [Entities and brand signals](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/entities-and-brand-signals): 13 min
- [E-E-A-T, author pages and quality signals](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/eeat-author-pages-and-quality): 14 min
- [Brand mentions in AI search and LLM answers: measure and improve](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/brand-mentions-in-ai-search): 9 min

### Knowledge panels and measuring brand authority

Earn and manage knowledge panels, measure digital PR credibly, and build AI-assisted PR workflows with human QA.

- [Knowledge panels: earning and managing them](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/knowledge-panels): 11 min
- [Measuring digital PR and brand authority](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/measuring-digital-pr-and-brand-authority): 12 min
- [AI-assisted digital PR workflows with human QA](https://optimizeall.com/learn/digital-pr-and-brand-authority/ai-assisted-pr-workflows): 9 min

## Certificate: Certified Digital PR & Brand Authority Specialist

The holder can ideate and run newsworthy, data-led digital PR campaigns, pitch journalists and win reactive coverage through request platforms, build thought leadership, manage reviews within platform policies and consumer law, strengthen entity signals, E-E-A-T and knowledge panels, measure brand visibility in AI answers, and report PR impact credibly with AI-assisted, human-checked workflows.

- **Final assessment:** 30 questions, 45 minutes
- **Passing score:** 80%