SEO in the journalistic company: Perceptions and key elements for its adoption in writing

Abstract

Introduction. The importance that media professionals give to search engine positioning in journalistic writing and its different dimensions is analyzed. Specifically, the perception of journalism professionals is studied after the recent application of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies in the Diario de Sevilla, a Joly Group cybermedia, with a tradition on paper and that, as of May 2018, created a specific web positioning department that would be its pilot project for the gradual transformation of the rest of its headers. Methodology. For the development of this research, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and frequency analysis of terms from the company’s internal manual on search engine positioning strategies have been applied. Conclusions. All this has made it possible to know the perception that professionals in this sector have of SEO, identify the possibilities of its application in news production, and propose a framework for the location of SEO in a digital newspaper.