The company that I use is http://www.powerquill.com ... The price is very reasonable. The reason I paid somone to do it was because you need a good Score in order to get listed in other media outlets. My time is very valuable and If I would of written the press myself - it would of taken me a few hours so the 100.00 is well worth it - plus I received a high score of 5 on one of my press releases - My second press release was scored a 4 - which still enabled me to be listed in the most popular media outlets. It's when you have a score of 3 is when you need to make changes - as long as you get a "4" you get listed on alot of sites. I hope this helps. Vicky Bad Credit Mortgage & Loans
I have never used PrWeb - does any kind of business benefit or do you have a better chance with service businesses or?? Thanks much for any ideas -
Press releases can help "any" product or service. IMO, press releases carry more credibility than paid advertising.
I have used the free, the $10, and the $30 Press Releases. I have had wonderful results with the $30 options. It's great if you have have a new website and want to get it into search engines and create back links. Depending on who picks up you PR you could have a lot of back links. Getting your PW rated as a 4 really isn't too hard to do if you just use their basic template.
I'm have been a little lazy about this and I don't have much time to write these but I will bookmark and do this soon.
Could I also suggest ClickPress - http://www.clickpress.com - which places the emphasis on ensuring news is distributed to the broadest possible network of the leading news/web search engines and headline aggreators via RSS/XML, the very places journalists (like myself) go to first when they are researching a story. Full disclosure: it is one of my sites, but I hope nobody minds me giving it a brief plug. One more tip - while press release distribution services may help with link acquisition, genuine newsworthy content is the only way to get real-life journos to sit up and take notice. And don't forget your local press who may never see your online release, but would be delighted to learn more if you've got got the modest makings of a great local story. Okay, so that was two tips, but who's counting? All the best, George
Is there an option to limit publication to a UK audience with PRweb and the likes? Or a service that is actually limited to UK sources? *I really had enough of those "You have an error on your site; the United States aren't listed in the delivery drop-down and I can't find the amount in dollars." type of e-mails*
PRWeb does allow you to specify the geographic region, as well as the industry. Most of the PR distribution sites allow releases to be filed under a given category or industry, including our own ClickPress (http://www.clickpress.com). However, ask some journalist friends how they research their stories and I suspect they will say search engines first, press release repositeries second or maybe even third, fourth or fifth. And making press releases search engine friendly is - as a happy coincidence - an exercise in making sure a company has something to say. Journalists trawling news and web search engines for current events will be using key words and phrases. If a press release includes these words and phrases in a meaningful way they stand a much better chances of being spotted and used.
I put out a PRWeb and PR Leap press release almost back to back last week to try to generate extra publicity from being in USA Today. In put $160 into PR Web and $0 into PR Leap. Now, I am not knocking PR Web, as I am sure their paid service has helped a lot, but what was interesting in my stats was that in terms of direct click-thrus from the press release itself, Leap has outperformed Web. Of course, this is just one press release and there are loads of factors that could have influenced this. I just wondered if maybe there is less competition on PR Leap coz it is smaller? In contrast, a free press release I put out with PR Web a while ago just disappeared without trace.... Food for thought.
Press releases are of real help. Besides traffic which last only for a day or two-'till the day gets over', the sites gets huge publicity and a greater chance of getting listed in major search engines. I would suggest PRweb.com to start with and then get into paid press releases, with every new feature introduced, you need to update the netizens which offen looks around for new products. Last week, one of my clients did a press release on Prweb , though he didn't get much traffic from Prweb but the link was listed in major search engines from where he got bulk traffic.
I was looking at someones site the other day.... They had absolutely no text on page yet they ranked number 1 for a fairly competitve keyword phrase.... I checked his backlinks and the first one was from PRWEB....
This is an interesting topic to address. We started a site last week, did our first paid PRWeb release on it on Thursday, and are now doing an additional 15 releases over the next 11 weeks (so our SEO plan calls for 16 releases over 12 weeks total). So far as of today a search for the URL shows Google: 227 references Yahoo: 353 references We're sending another release out tonight, and another next Tuesday. We'll keep you posted as to the results. We HAVE been using PRWeb for a number of years, and always found it to be fast and effective. We were picked up by Time, People, Popular Science, QVC and quite a few other publications and sales channels for one product, and MANY magazines for another (www.Trikke.com was the first, www.lovepads.com, www.susanshealthygourmet.com, IdeaFisher was another, etc...). It's valuable to have an innovative or unique product, and a good story. Having measurable results, both from the PRWeb management console and from the search engines, makes it very worthwhile when we're working with a client to build OUR credibility in their eyes. That's where we see one of the greatest benefits. Also: we're publishing our results on a site called www.prwebquickstart.com. I'll let you know what we discover. best regards, ME
clasione, pr web is a cool service. I paid about 30.00 bucks and they submitted my press release all over the web. I believe about 15,000 people have read it so far. It is a great way of getting your site out there. thanks, tesla
You make that sound very optimistic. I'd say it was requested 15K times which is quite a different story compared people actually reading it.
ME: The factors on PRWeb Stats are easy to resolve. Here's my most recent press release, and the numbers from last week's delivery to today (see attachment): Statistic Count Description Reads 55,172 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 that have received your release through email. In addition there are online distribution points that we currently have no ability to track. Estimated Pickup 467 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 8 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 0 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 28 The number of times your release was downloaded as a PDF document. PDF Downloads may be reflected in "Reads" and "Estimated Pickup" statistics. (all info provided from the PRWeb.com Website and (TM) and (C) PRWeb) With these stats you can tweak your PR and see the numbers update on a regular basis. More on this later. Best, ME
I've put out several releases through prweb and have always had good results. Two of my releases ended up in google's organic results in the top five spots. I released them at the end of last year and I'm still getting a little traffic from them.
I've written quite a few press releases and always gotten a 4 at PRWEB. I have never seen a 5. Has anyone ever gotten one? I'd be interested to see the press release and its results. Micah
I guess I need someone to write a good press release with a different and hot angle. I get scores of 4 at prweb, but just do not get the results I am looking for. Any takers PM me. I would prefer someone that has had a lotof success and scored 5's. Micah www.bestbraindrain.com