{"id":18811,"date":"2025-06-03T16:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipullrank.com\/?p=18811"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:11:56","slug":"journalism-organic-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipullrank.com\/journalism-organic-search","title":{"rendered":"How Data Journalism Can Future-Proof Your Content Visibility in Organic Search"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Nearly 70% of people believe that government officials, media, business leaders, and journalists deliberately mislead the public, according to a <\/span>2025 report<\/span><\/a> by the global communications firm Edelman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

As content markers and content strategists, it’s our job to change that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In some industries, businesses have even emerged as a leading player in addressing societal issues, with many people viewing companies as more competent and ethical than the government, according to Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman. This means that as marketers, we have an immense opportunity (and the public\u2019s blessing) to gain the trust of our audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Data journalism is one of the best opportunities for brands to do so. Data-led brand storytelling helps demonstrate company-driven values, builds authority online, and has the power to differentiate brands in a world of <\/span>AI slop<\/span><\/a> (a term used for shoddy or unwanted AI content).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

And, with conversational and generative search becoming increasingly popular, original, trustworthy, and authoritative content is more valuable than ever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

With data journalism, you can create content that fosters trust with your audience and performs well in both traditional and AI-driven search environments. You just need to stick to the basics\u2014 <\/span>original<\/b> data research,<\/b> narrative storytelling, and<\/b> newsworthy<\/b> distribution<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Data journalism is a journalistic practice of using data, statistics, and visualization to tell compelling and newsworthy stories. This matters because, according to a recent study on <\/span>optimizing content for generative search engines<\/span><\/a>, using quantitative data can significantly increase content visibility by up to 40% in large language models (LLMs).<\/span><\/p>

Overall, the top-performing methods to gain visibility included citing sources, adding credible quotations, and incorporating statistics into the content. Stylistic improvements, such as fluency and readability, also bolstered a source\u2019s likelihood of getting featured in LLM-generated responses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Essentially, the study implied that content should convey authority and be easy to read.<\/span><\/p>

Likewise, my energetic colleague, Garrett Sussman, Director of Marketing at iPullRank, has also extensively covered <\/span>what works for increasing visibility in Google\u2019s AI overviews<\/span><\/a>. Like LLMs, Sussman says that incorporating unique information not readily available elsewhere into your content can give you an edge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This concept, known as information gain, involves providing unique insights or data, making your content more valuable and likely to be surfaced by generative AI search algorithms. This is because content with information gain is more likely to get picked up and spread across the web, an idea similar to \u201cDigital PR.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Let\u2019s do a quick pulse check. So far, we have:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

  1. Incorporate relevant statistics<\/span><\/li>
  2. Quote subject matter experts<\/span><\/li>
  3. Cite your sources<\/span><\/li>
  4. Add original information not previously published<\/span><\/li><\/ol>

    This process sounds very similar to data journalism to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    To give an example, consider Glassdoor, a popular job reviews website, that publishes an annual report called, <\/span>Glassdoor\u2019s Best Places to Work 2025<\/span><\/a>. This year\u2019s report has 43,800 backlinks and over 30 million monthly visitors. Over the years, these reports have been picked up and shared by the following (and many other) outlets:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>