I've just tried PRWeb.com for the first time, i submitted my pressrelease and put $30 along with it, this gets me immediately into the search engines apparently. My press release goes out on 2nd november. I was just wondering if anyone else had tryed PRWeb and wondered how successful was it for them? Thanks.
Definitely would love to hear others results - I have a press release going out tomorrow Nov. 1 and can't wait to see how it works! I will post my results later in the week.
The first thing I would suggest is to bump up to the $80 level for the sheer fact that the distribution level is much greater. Another trick is to actually go just a bit over the minimum 80 and here's why: Most people will do the bare minimun contribution for the higher level of exposure that they get, but what most don't realize is that your position on the front page for the day of your release is based on your contribution level. I do press release writing on the side for other website owners and business owners. I did one for myself, but purposefully released on a holiday for a little experiment. Mainly, because my site is entertainment related and I wanted to see if that would bode well with HS and college kids not in class for the day. At any rate, here are the stats for my release on 10-Oct-2005, for which I contributed $83 USD: Reads 38,750 This number tells you how many times your press release was accessed from our site and other distribution points where we have the ability to measure a click through. This number does not include the number of journalists who have received your release through email. In addition there are online distribution points that we currently have no ability to track. Estimated Pickup 1,463 This number estimates the number of times your press release was picked up by a media outlet. This does not tell you how many times your story appears in the media. It simply attempts to estimate media interest of your release. Prints 35 This is the number of times that someone has printed your press release. We measure this by the number of times that the "printer friendly version" link is pressed. In reality, only a small percentage of users actually click this link before printing a release. Forwards 2 This is the number of times that someone has forwarded your press release to a third party using the link on your press release. PDF Downloads 95 The number of times your release was downloaded as a PDF document. PDF Downloads may be reflected in "Reads" and "Estimated Pickup" statistics. The statistics that stand out to me, are the Esitimated Pick Ups and the Forwards. Generally, when I do a PR for even a large corporation and list up to ten industries to be targeted, the pick up is only around 800. Also, I rarely see any forwards, and this one had two. Good luck with your press release.
I did one a while back and it was very successful, not just in distribution, but it brought us quite a few visitors. Unquestionably worth the cost. We only spent $30 on this one. Here were the stats: Reads: 30953 Pickups: 702 Prints: 10
Thanks for the tip - I bumped my contribution up to $85 and shot up quite a bit in the distribution order. Your stats are impressive - did you receive any phone calls from journalists to expand on your release, or do they pretty much print it as is if they decide to pick it up?
Another trick is to add to your "friends" points by submitting some emails to friends you know won't mind getting the "promo" and this is a little added boost in the distribution order too. Next to your information you should see something that says "Friend of PR Web" and a number, probably a zero - when you click the number it will give you the opportunity to send a promo email out to colleagues - of course, if you have several email accounts of your own ... I did get a huge boost in traffic for a short period. I wasn't contacted by any journalist, but I did see a small increase in backlinks from other sites, mainly blogs; also, a few webmasters contacted me to see about link exchanges.
I have used it. The best way for it to work is to pay, but the $10 one still keeps you buried to deep to be worth it. You have to choose one of the higher amounts. If you do the traffic is not bad if you write a good press release that gets them interested. Not worth the free release except for linking purpose. Good luck Kevin
I always go with the 80 option. Never get tons of traffic but well worth the $80. Here's another one that's very similar. prleap.com Sometimes I do them both and stagger the timing. Figure as long as I'm going to the trouble of writing a press release may as well try to cover all the bases.
I use the free option and then use G Alerts to let me know where the feed gets picked up. Granted this isn't the best method but for most of the stuff I do it works fine. And I have been called to verify information because of this, but 99% just run it as is.
I have read of people here pointing a bit of co-op weight at them when published to keep them ranking for longer - do not know if it works though?
After being published for 3 full days I would have to say I am very pleased with the results. I contributed $85 for the release and have had over 20,000 reads, 514 media pickups and 31 PDF downloads. But I think the greatest benefit is that the release was edited and posted on several high PR web sites (PR6-7) by webmasters with links back to my site so this should help my SEO efforts in the long run as well. Overall seems like a lot of benefit for a very small investement.
Great deal diamondsinfo! Glad to hear it's had some great initial and residual benefits. In the "media realm" news, articles, stories et al are considered to be on a "cyclic" scale - it's really awesome if you can put out a new PR every 21-28 days and continue to maintain good branding, name recognition, etc. Furhtermore, as you continue to do these, the linkback issues will begin to have an exponential growing effect
Yep this does work. Hey do you have a copy of that press release you did diamondsinfo. I would like to see how you did yours so that maybe I can make mine even better. If you dont mind. Thanks, Kevin
Sure, I posted it in my blog: http://www.diamondse.info/blog/2005/11/loose-diamonds-search-engine-launches.html
I did and was not thrilled. I had a professional write the press release. I didn't see much traffic nor any sales as a result. Waste of time if you ask me, at most, a link back to your site. Could also just depend what business you're in.
I used PRweb and prnewswire.com... if your going to use PR pay the $80 or its not worth it. Prnewswire is a little more complicated... you have to fill out a big form and pay $125. Then you can submit press releases... but with prnewswire these releases actually go out to journalists. I paid an extra $650 to send my press release to a bunch of technical journalists. I got a lot of phone calls and some traffic, but my release was pretty generic. I would recommend Prnewswire if you had a real good press release that you would think a tech news paper or TV show may pick up.
There have been some good threads on PRWeb on DigitalPoint before -- those who are interested should run a search.
I love prweb and have all my stuff done by serenity on here. I always also opt for and highly recomend the 80$ option. Recently one of my corporations made a donation of 10,000$ to the red cross and we did a press release on it. I got BUTLOADS of calls from local and national media outlets. I did about 15 radio interviews and 2 appearences on local tv. I turned down a lot of email interviews because I hate to write... (which is why i pay serenity to write my realeses ) The only thing I hate a bout prweb is that fatass cocky ceo that owns it. I tried telling him how much I liked prweb at the ses in san jose and he kept cutting me off telling me how great he was... I was uber annoyed by that. O well go figure