Are the lines starting to blur between search engine marketers and public relations practitioners?

- Utah PR people are talking about keyword-stuffed press releases.

- SEO firms are offering online public relations and press release optimization services . . . (SEO.com)

- SEO firms are offering copywriting services.

- PR firms are pushing “new media,” blogs, podcasts, Diggs, etc….

- Internet marketers are pushing the “seo press release.” (Newspapergrl)

- PR firms are tracking the number of hits to a news story/press release online . . .

- SEM firms are doing ad buys (it’s called pay-per-click).

- Both parties are pitching stories to journalists (and citizen journalists).

- Both are employing “new media” in the form of blogs.

and on, and on….