my topic, billiards, is not really suitable for the social networking sites like digg or delicio, so I am in need of other promoytion ideas. Budget is zero, but time is aplenty. I sub'd an article for publishing on PRWEB (free version) but I fail to see where it "goes" next?? if I don't pay them, does it really go anywehre? Are there any other alternatives for me?
I tried that for my site,and PRWeb is good....it gives your site a lot of exposure for sure..and high rankings on google search engine...
mickscool - did you use their free service, or a paid package? Also, can you elaborate on where your release showed up for the high rankings?
There is a guy in here does PR Submittals is name is koolkid, he will help you out if you have time to wait as he is usually very busy He posts FREE PR's
Normally free PR wont work much. You can directly sighnup with PRWEB and if you choose $80 package, it's worth while.
Hi There, I took the $45 package from them andit was pretty gud.You can type the word "brokenconnection prweb" [ without quotes ] on google,and you can see all the sites where they put my ad on. Thanks
I've used the $300 package from prweb twice. Once it didn't do much of anything, another time it easily paid for itself. Which would suggest the difference in success is in the monkey writing the press release (that'd be me ).
I run a small PR firm and regularly write and submit press releases for DP members. PRweb's free service won't do a heck of a lot for you unless someone finds you basically in a keyword search. You won't get live links or added to Google news and such without an upgrade. If you want a free service to still get you listed in Google news and other services so that you can reach more people, try www.pr.com. I rarely ever upgrade my own releases, because I tend to opt for manual submissions if it's that important. But PR.com has always gotten my releases into Google news for free. Jenn
Important is your company profile and a live link of your website. its sad that most of the PR does not include this in free services.
Not really sad. It helps to keep them from being abused as link-generating tools even more than they already are. While it's a nice side effect, a PR's purpose is to disseminate news to the media, not provide incoming links to a website. When every webmaster out there starts sending tons of free press releases just to get backlinks, it severely dillutes the "real news", members of the media won't waste their time checking them, and they'll be essentially useless for their intended purpose. Actually, I'd never looked in Yahoo! News for releases through them until now. It doesn't look like they're in there. I just suggested them as a news source site with Yahoo!, but of course that doesn't mean too much. It's odd that they're not being picked up. Hopefully that will change. I'm not sure about other newswires. And actually... I just did searches on several pretty common free newswires, and the only one I'm seeing picked up is PRweb with them (I didn't check every one of them of course, so maybe others are). Jenn
LOL, well I'm glad that seems to be a "good" thing. A lot of people can't stand hearing things like that, true or not.
well hopefully a press release does something for me.. I've written an article and submitted it to PR Web with the 80$ package. Does the web address written in my contact details not get included with the PR? I would like to see the press release do well in the news, but i also want backlinks if possible. Perhaps i should upgrade to the level where backlinks are allowed in the body of the text? oh and i got a editorial score of 4 i guess thats good. Read that in another thread
4's a pretty normal score. It just means you followed their basic rules decently enough. Take it with a grain of salt though... it's in their best interest to rate things a 4 rather than a 3, b/c then your release is eligible for "special" upgrade options, so they can try to milk you for more money. You should still have a link to your website in the contact detail area... won't be the url, just says "website" or something along those lines I believe. Jenn
Wow, cool thread! How well a press release does has a lot to do with how well the release is written. You need a hook and if you can tie that hook to current events even better. I think Jenn is correct, and I have been guilty of using Prweb for backlinks myself. Funny thing is, if a big tv station or newspaper called me for an interview, I probably wouldn't be as prepared as I would like. Thanks for the info Jenn. Travis
I spent $200 and released my PR on Wednesday just gone, If you go to google news I am first for many keywords such as http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=used+cars+for+sale My company is called just good cars with the orange banner. Also the PR can be seen on Yahoo News, Newspad.com and ask.com Stats so far: - Reads 35,704 Estimated Pickup 297 Prints 7 Forwards 0 PDF Downloads 22 This is my first ever press release, I wrote it myself and was given a rating of 4 out of 5. On the day of the release I was put on the homepage of prweb in about 15th place. I went with the SEO upgrade (full wack $200) and put links in my release, hopefully this will help drive keyword traffic to my site. Will keep you posted if anything interesting happens. No calls as of yet. Not a massive increase in traffic but its defiantly rising. Anyone else care to share their stats? I am curious to know how others are doing.
i've used PR Distribution for many years and there are a lot of things to share. I even run a company for 5 years. My purpose has been to solely reach media, not to generate links, but lately, a lot of pr posting sites have become a tool for webmasters. If you have around $150 to spend, try some real pr distribution firms (PRN, BW, PrimeZone, etc.) You will get indexed at some reputable news sites and it will stay there for a while.
lol PRweb is nowhere close to being the best. The "best" will always be the "real" newswires, like AP, Reuters, the Dow Jones newswires, etc. Two other sites in particular I like (especially when I'm actually looking for news to write about - I try not to ever pull from a free "newswire" because there's too much garbage to sift through) are PRnewswire and BusinessWire. I'm sure everyone has their preferences. The reason you hear so much about PRweb though is because they have a free release option. While it might make them more popular with webmasters who intend to misuse releases anyway just for backlinks, it does hurt them in the eyes of a lot of industry professionals who end up taking them much less seriously. But they chose their target market, and it seems to serve their purposes well enough. And PRweb isn't really a "PR firm." They just offer press release services to the best of my knowledge (not campaign planning or implementation, image management, crisis response, or PR writing services outside of press releases themselves... like backgrounders, fact sheets, full media kits, media advisories, etc.). Jenn