A digital PR agency turning brand attention into
search authority
Modern digital PR connects newsworthy stories, expert commentary and credible placements with SEO authority and brand demand. Shout helps you earn coverage that improves trust, visibility and growth. Get your X-Chart and see how your brand’s authority stacks up.
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Guy Rintoul
Head Of Growth
20 Years Experience
Trusted by Australia’s most recognised brands
What do you do when digital PR isn’t delivering the results it should?
No clear link between PR and SEO results
Coverage secured, but no visible impact on rankings, traffic or domain authority.
Low-quality or irrelevant backlinks
Links from low-authority or unrelated sites that do little to move the needle, or risk looking spammy to Google.
No visibility in AI search results
Coverage and citations not translating into visibility within AI tools like ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews.
PR and SEO teams working in silos
Campaigns run without SEO input, missing opportunities to target the right keywords or link equity.
Digital PR success starts with an X-Chart
Understand your digital PR performance
Before scaling digital PR investment, you need clarity on whether your current coverage and links are working in your favour, how your authority compares to competitors, and where your visibility is falling short. The X-Chart is Shout’s proprietary marketing audit, built around a guaranteed forecast for your business over the next 3, 6 and 12 months. It gives you a clear commercial view of what’s working, what isn’t, and exactly what it will take to build authority that compounds.
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A digital PR agency that builds links, coverage and search authority
It’s why brands choose Shout
Shout Digital creates data-led and reactive PR campaigns designed to earn coverage in high-authority publications and secure genuine backlinks, translating directly into stronger search visibility. Every digital PR campaign is handled by a dedicated, senior team, including specialists with backgrounds at companies like Google and Apple, who understand exactly what publications, journalists and platforms value, and how that translates into genuine search authority.
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Our reputation is built on understanding what genuinely drives visibility, not chasing coverage for its own sake, and it’s backed by multiple 5-star Google reviews. Every account is handled by a dedicated, senior team who bring that same care and attention to earning the links and coverage that actually grow your brand’s authority. Book a call, and we’ll turn your X-Chart around within 24 hours, so you know what it’ll take to get there.
Michael Jenkins
Digital PR services, built around results
Digital PR helps brands earn meaningful coverage, links and authority through stories people care about. Shout connects PR activity with measurable SEO and commercial outcomes, so every campaign works as hard for your rankings as it does for your reputation.
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PR opportunity research
Find the stories, data and expert angles most likely to earn attention from journalists and publishers.
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Campaign ideation
Create newsworthy hooks that align with brand, audience and search opportunity, giving every campaign a genuine reason to be covered.
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Media outreach
Pitch relevant journalists, publishers and industry sources with useful assets, building relationships that go beyond a single placement.
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Authority link acquisition
Earn credible links that support organic visibility and trust, strengthening your site’s authority in the eyes of Google.
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Performance measurement
Track coverage, links, referral traffic, visibility and brand impact, connecting PR activity to results you can prove.
We were referred to Shout by Bed Bath N Table who highly recommended them. Shout has increased our organic search by 36% in 9 months and it’s climbing steadily. They are also handling our international campaigns.
Helping a do-it-yourself business do it themselves globally.
Shout helped create an international search strategy to drive brand awareness and demand generation and helped launch several new products successfully.
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We’ve been working with Shout for our SEO after trying a few other agencies, and the difference has been excellent. The team is knowledgeable, professional and easy to deal with, and they keep us informed with clear updates on our progress each month. We’ve been really happy with the service and results so far.
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Gregory Levett
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We've used Shout for our SEO after trying several other agencies, and couldn't be happier with the team. They're all highly experienced and keep us well updated on our monthly progress.
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Rodney Norris
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Excellent customer service!
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Thomas Morgan
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These guys have done great work for my small service-based business. Highly recommend them - It's worth the investment and much, much more :)
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Ash Cherrett
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Michael and the team are the best in the business - professional, passionate and a pleasure to work with.
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matt alpass
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Great experience working with Michael and Sangeeta from Shout. The Shout team has supported our digital marketing by building and optimising our SEO strategy from the ground up. Their approach has been thorough, transparent, and consistently results-driven.
A big shout out to Sangeeta in particular as she has been incredible with her dedication quality of work and follow up.
Highly recommend Shout for anyone looking to strengthen their online presence through SEO.
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Michael Harvey
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I've worked with Michael and his team at Shout Digital on several long term projects over the past 8 years, and I've always been impressed by the professionalism, accountability and frankly honest approach to simplifying digital marketing and providing great, reliable results for our projects time and time again.
We have worked on several Magento and Shopify migrations both domestically and global brands and the technical expertise in replatforming ecommerce sites without losing search equity first class.
Shout Digital is setting a better standard for the whole industry and I would definitely recommend them to brands starting out all the way to established complex marketing operations.
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Nigel Ewart
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We’ve had a fantastic experience working with Michael, Sangeeta, and the team at Shout. They supported us in building and optimising our SEO strategy from the ground up, taking a thoughtful, data-driven approach that delivered consistent results.
Their process has been transparent and well-structured, with reporting that is clear, easy to understand, and genuinely useful. Sangeeta's communication has been excellent throughout, and we’ve always felt informed and supported.
We highly recommend Shout to any organisation looking to strengthen their online presence through SEO.
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Michael Gammon
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We've been working with Shout for a little over a year now - moving to external support from an agency was a big transition for us, but one that the Shout team, specifically Matilda & Megan M have supported us with tremendously. Willing and eager to understand our requirements and how to best deliver on that each and every week. We look forward to continuing to work together in the future.
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Jessica Townley
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Our experience with Michael and the team has been excellent. Their interest and ability to understand our business has been crucial in developing strategies that have improved both the growth and reach of our brand. In addition they have been able to bring in professional creative support to further develop and update our website.
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Michelle Skinner
The team behind your digital PR results
A senior team with hands-on media relationships and SEO expertise, turning earned coverage into genuine search authority and measurable growth.
Michael is a pioneer of the Australian digital marketing landscape. Since opening Shout in 2010, he’s driven growth for businesses of every shape and size. There isn’t a digital challenge he hasn’t seen or a platform he’s not experienced in.
Guy Rintoul
HEAD OF GROWTH
Guy brings a postgraduate qualification and 10+ years’ experience across SEO, Google Ads, social and web development. He sits at the intersection of strategy and delivery — building client partnerships and cutting through jargon to deliver clear, measurable growth.
Gabriela Serrano Ruiz
Head of Paid Media
Gabriela has 14 years in performance marketing, including Head of Biddable Media at B&T’s 2023 Performance Agency of the Year, and 10 years in executive leadership. She develops data-driven strategy across all paid media and leads teams towards excellence.
Chamal Alahakoon
Head of SEO
With 10+ years across enterprise and technical SEO, CRO and analytics, Chamal specialises in turning complex websites into high-converting customer journeys — especially where SEO, journey optimisation and emerging AEO/GEO opportunities intersect.
Parmiss Kia
SENIOR SEO LEAD
Parmiss brings 15+ years of senior in-house and agency SEO leadership, having driven organic and paid search growth at Kmart Australia ($450M incremental revenue), Country Road Group ($35M) and REA Group ($375M). She now specialises in AI Search and Answer Engine Optimisation,.
Eric Shaikh
DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES
Eric leads client services at Shout, bringing extensive digital marketing experience and a consultative approach to bridging strategy and business outcomes. He’s built a career on customer advocacy, turning complex challenges into clear, accountable growth plans.
Anna Martin
SEO CONTENT MANAGER
Anna spent years as a TV editor for networks including Warner Bros., ITV Studios, Fremantle and BBC Studios, cutting shows like My Kitchen Rules and The Great Australian Bakeoff. She now brings that storytelling instinct to Shout’s content strategy.
Laura Ridley
PAID MEDIA SPECIALIST
15+ years running paid social and performance media for major brands — Nestlé, Nespresso, Lion and Spotify as Performance Director at Reprise Australia (APAC Agency of the Year, 2021). Deep, hands-on paid social expertise at real scale.
Digital PR is the practice of earning online media coverage, backlinks and brand mentions through newsworthy stories, data and expert commentary, with the goal of building both brand authority and organic search visibility. Unlike traditional PR, digital PR is measured not just by coverage volume, but by the links, referral traffic and SEO value that coverage generates.
Traditional PR focuses primarily on brand reputation, awareness and media relationships, often measured through impressions or column inches. Digital PR shares those same foundations but is built with SEO in mind, prioritising coverage from websites that pass genuine authority and link equity, so campaigns contribute directly to search rankings as well as brand visibility.
Digital PR is one method of earning links, but it does so through genuine media coverage and relationships, rather than through direct outreach purely for links. This makes the links earned through digital PR more natural, credible and resistant to devaluation, since they come attached to real editorial coverage rather than a transactional exchange.
Yes, digital PR can significantly support SEO by earning backlinks from high-authority websites, which remains one of Google’s key ranking signals. Beyond links, digital PR also builds brand mentions and citations across the web, which contribute to overall domain authority and trust, both increasingly important in a search landscape shaped by AI.
A newsworthy story typically combines an element of timeliness, relevance and genuine value for the publication’s audience, whether that’s original data, a unique expert perspective, or a timely reaction to current events. Journalists are far more likely to cover stories that offer their readers something new, surprising or genuinely useful, rather than content that reads as thinly veiled advertising.
Reactive digital PR involves responding quickly to breaking news, trending topics or journalist requests with relevant commentary, data or expert opinion. Because these opportunities are time-sensitive, reactive PR requires strong media relationships and the ability to turn around a pitch quickly, often within hours rather than days.
Digital PR results can vary significantly depending on the quality of the story, media relationships and competitive landscape, but most campaigns take a few weeks to secure initial coverage. The SEO impact of that coverage, particularly ranking improvements from earned links, often builds gradually over the following months as search engines recognise and value the new signals.
Digital PR typically earns editorial links, meaning they’re placed naturally within articles by journalists rather than through paid or reciprocal arrangements. These links are generally considered high quality by Google, particularly when they come from authoritative, relevant publications, since they reflect genuine third-party endorsement rather than manipulated link building.
No, digital PR can work for brands of any size, as long as the story, data or angle being pitched genuinely offers value to journalists and their audiences. Smaller or newer brands can still earn strong coverage with the right hook, though budget often influences the scale and frequency of campaigns that can be run.
Coverage and citations earned through digital PR feed into the sources AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews draw from when generating answers, making digital PR increasingly important for AI visibility, not just traditional rankings. Brands with strong, consistent coverage across authoritative sites are more likely to be referenced or recommended within these AI-generated results.
Yes, digital PR can work across almost any industry, though the type of story or data used will vary depending on what’s genuinely newsworthy within that space. Industries with access to unique data, trends or expert insight, such as finance, retail or technology, often find it easier to secure coverage, but creative angles can still work for more niche or traditionally “less exciting” sectors.
Digital PR success is typically measured through a combination of coverage quality, the number and authority of links earned, referral traffic, and downstream impact on search rankings and organic visibility. The most meaningful campaigns go beyond simply counting placements, connecting coverage back to genuine SEO and business outcomes.
Shout Digital connects every digital PR campaign directly to SEO outcomes, ensuring coverage earns genuine authority and search visibility, not just brand mentions. Every campaign is handled by a dedicated, senior team, including specialists with backgrounds at companies like Google and Apple, who understand exactly what publications, journalists and platforms value.
Shout Digital builds digital PR campaigns with SEO strategy embedded from the start, prioritising coverage and links from sites that genuinely support search authority and rankings. Rather than treating PR and SEO as separate disciplines, our teams work together so every placement earned contributes to a wider organic growth strategy.
Shout Digital runs both data-led and reactive digital PR campaigns, tailored to your brand, audience and search opportunity. This includes original research and data stories, expert commentary, and timely reactive pitches, all built around angles genuinely likely to earn coverage from relevant, credible publications.
A good digital PR agency should have genuine media relationships, a track record of earning coverage from credible, relevant publications, and a clear understanding of how PR contributes to SEO outcomes like links and rankings. It’s also worth looking for transparent reporting that connects coverage to real search and business impact, rather than vanity metrics like impressions alone.
Digital PR pricing depends on factors like campaign scope, industry competitiveness and the frequency of campaigns required to build sustained authority. Shout Digital provides a free X-Chart audit upfront, giving you a clear, honest view of your current coverage and search visibility before committing to any investment.
Yes, Shout Digital offers AI search optimisation alongside digital PR, helping brands build visibility across AI-driven search platforms and strengthening the coverage and citations these tools draw from. As AI search reshapes how brands are discovered, this ensures digital PR campaigns work as hard in AI results as they do in traditional search.
Alongside digital PR, Shout Digital offers Melbourne SEO, Google Ads, and social media marketing including LinkedIn and Facebook/Meta ads, giving brands the option to build a broader digital strategy beyond earned coverage alone. This means your digital PR campaigns can work alongside other channels to support growth across the full customer journey.
Shout Digital tracks coverage quality, links earned, referral traffic, authority impact and downstream effects on rankings and traffic, giving you a clear picture of how PR investment is translating into real results. Reporting is fast and transparent, so you always know what’s been secured and the impact it’s having.
No agency can honestly guarantee specific media placements, as coverage ultimately depends on journalist and publisher decisions. What Shout Digital can guarantee is a considered, well-researched approach to every campaign, built around angles genuinely likely to earn coverage from relevant, credible sources.