Digital PR that earns links, rankings and sales
Updated October 2026.
Prohibition is a digital PR agency in Leeds. We create stories journalists want to publish online, then make sure the coverage links back to your site, so it lifts your search rankings, your visibility in AI answers and your sales. Our always-on press office for Astonish earned 420 links in a year, and Sealy’s links rose by 2,030% in 2025.

What is digital PR?
Digital PR is earning coverage on news sites, blogs and online magazines, with links back to your website. It builds brand awareness like traditional PR, but it also builds the authority that helps Google rank your pages and helps AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews cite your brand.
What can digital PR do for your business?
Press Office
Win links that lift your rankings
Links from trusted news sites tell Google your site is credible. furn., a West Yorkshire furniture maker, earned 87 pieces of coverage and 80 backlinks from our digital-first press office, with 7,500 direct visits to its site.
Reactive Commentary
React fast to the news agenda
Prestige Flowers spotted the ONS baby names list coming, linked each naming trend to a bouquet and turned the story round fast. It earned 14 national pieces and 12 high-authority backlinks with an average domain authority of 90. See our reactive PR service.
Audience Engagement
Drive traffic and sales, not just mentions
For Black Sheep Brewery’s Christmas gifting, 90% of 60 pieces of coverage carried a direct link. We tracked 548 referrals, a 556% rise in traffic to the gifting range and £21K more festive online sales. For Cartwright & Butler, 49 of 78 pieces linked to the site and sales rose 8%.
Enhanced data reporting
Measure what it actually did
We report links, referral traffic, rankings and sales, not just coverage counts, using the AMEC framework. See our approach to PR measurement.
Our digital PR work


Integrated PR for optimum brand awareness
Digital PR joined up with everything else
Because media relations, social media, influencer marketing and content sit in one team, each story works across search, social and the press at once. We also help brands get cited in AI answers through generative engine optimisation.
We create talk worthy digital PR campaigns
Ideas that get talked about
From the world’s first poo-powered pub for Yorkshire Water, which reached a combined 72.5 million readers and won Best Small Budget Campaign at the CIPR Awards, to Astonish’s advice-first press office, we build stories with a reason to link.
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Why choose Prohibition for digital PR?
PR people who understand search
Many SEO agencies buy links; we earn them with stories journalists want. Sealy’s press office more than doubled its coverage to 224 pieces in 2025, and links to its site rose by 2,030%. Prohibition is a multi-award-winning PR agency in Leeds and part of the Worldcom PR Group.
How much does digital PR cost?
Most clients run digital PR as a monthly retainer, or a fixed fee for a single campaign. The cost depends on how many campaigns and stories you need, whether you want original research or data, how competitive your sector is, and whether you add social or influencer activity. We give you a written quote after a first call, or you can contact us now.
Talk to Prohibition about digital PR
Tell us which searches you want to win and who you need to reach. Prefer to talk? Call us on 0113 430 4160.
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Why is digital PR important?
What are the different types of digital PR campaigns?
Digital PR involves creating reactive, planned, and proactive campaigns which are then turned into press releases and outreached to media publications to achieve backlinks.
As part of the process, PRs have a network of journalists, bloggers, and influencers to build strong relationships for added campaign success.
How can digital PR help my brand?
Enhance Organic Performance
As mentioned briefly above, by gaining high-quality backlinks our team can indicate to search engines that your site is trustworthy. Digital PR compliments the trust part of Google’s E.A.T. ranking factors, especially backlinks from major publications that have a higher domain authority (DA) score.
By building authoritative links our team will improve your SEO score, as well as the rankings for your target keywords and product pages. It’s common knowledge that the higher you appear on search results, the more traffic you will come to your website. If you’re struggling to compete in the top 10 on Google, we can get you there.
There’s no expense when it comes to the state of the link, our team only targets publications that will create greater visibility and referral traffic for your site. Whether you want an authoritative link on the BBC, GQ, or Forbes, our digital PR campaigns will secure it.
Product Spotlight
Digital PR helps to put your product in the spotlight, by prompting users to visit a landing page as part of the campaign. So if you’re wanting to promote a specific product, our team can implement creative hero campaigns, advertisements, unique data pieces, or influencer campaigns that will drive search demand and conversions.
Digital PR content consists of interactive on-site assets such as bespoke leaderboards, guides, guest articles, and other pieces of creative content. These digital PR campaigns offer a direct way of engaging with your audience by allowing users to respond on social media or via your website, as well as directing users to make a purchase or find out more information about your services in a fun and visual way.
Over the past 10 years, our specialist PR team has built long-lasting relationships with journalists and has unparalleled knowledge of the news agenda. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a big player in the industry wanting greater online visibility or an independent store wanting to generate more walk-ins, we have the media contacts that will get you the online coverage you need.
Grow Your Share Of The Market Through Sales
An effective PR strategy will drive brand mentions, which will encourage more users to your site and drive purchases – it’s these earned links and purchases that will dominate your share of the market online.
Market share indicates the volume of online traffic your business has online. Therefore holding a large percentage of the market, not only represents the strength of your brand’s voice online but grows your reputation and positions you as a market leader. By growing a strong and loyal customer base through digital PR, we can entice prospective customers to follow suit existing customers.
Builds Trust Amongst Consumers
Digital PR helps to feature your brand name on credited media outlets, which will not only build authority online but among consumers. It’s this coverage that will make you an expert in your field and position you as the ‘go-to’ operator.
This trust will also attain a higher quality of lead – due to them already being an active listening audience – pushing them further down the sales cycle. From this, we can turn leads into customers, into brand advocates, and eventually loyal customers that will keep purchasing for a lifetime.
Video Marketing To Heighten Creatives And Campaigns
To heighten creative digital PR campaigns further, our creative team can produce a variety of engaging content formats that will create stories worth talking about for the long haul. Video content online is only surging more and more in consumption every day, so this is a marketing technique that shouldn’t be ignored.
Whether it’s to support or feature at the forefront of campaigns, our team knows what creative content will drive press attention and which won’t.
What is digital marketing?
Digital marketing is the process of leveraging various online channels to promote products, services, or brands. It involves a range of strategies such as SEO, social media marketing, content marketing, email marketing, PPC advertising, and more.
By implementing effective digital marketing strategies, businesses can increase their online visibility, attract their target audience, and ultimately drive more revenue.
Will digital marketing continue to grow?
Through various digital marketing strategies such as search engine optimisation (SEO), social media marketing, content marketing, and pay-per-click advertising, you can improve your website’s ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs), making it more likely for potential customers to discover your business when they search for relevant keywords.
What industries do we work in?
Why do you need crisis management in digital PR?
One bad campaign and you could turn customers away for life. This is where we come in, we can manage your online reputation to prevent any PR disasters from happening. Or even better, let us handle your digital PR campaigns to ensure media relevance.
Our team of PR specialists, offer unparalleled access to global expertise and insight across the full spectrum of communications – from media relations and stakeholder engagement to social media strategy and digital advertising.




