I am looking to do a press release for my Free File Hosting Site .. which is the best online press service you guys would recommend?
Getting it directly on AP or PRnewswire are the best. For your purposes though, stick to PRweb.com, and you should be fine. If you don't want to pay for the release, use PR.com (PRweb won't send free releases to Google news and such, but PR.com does rather quickly). Jenn
I use this one when I'm also distributing through other newswires, but never by itself. Its only benefit is that it gets your release posted instantly while many others have a delay of 12 hours to 2 days. It's an option if you're distributing it widely, but not the "best" option by itself at all. Jenn
I would be interested what is the contribution you need to do by Prweb in order to get a measurable effect of traffic. Is the 200$ option ? Alex
prweb is my fav dont know prices... but they do give good details on what each contribution amount will get you.. some can get you on google news etc...
I use prweb, but why stop there. Start there, and keep submitting. The number of free press release sites are growing.
Why is because it can get very time consuming to do, and isn't worth it in the long run. A release is only as good as the coverage it brings you. Most journalists don't bother following the smaller no-name wire services. They're not going to give you enough added exposure to be worth your time. Jenn
$200 would probably get you on the front page towards the middle to bottom of that listing. A recent client of mine was in the top 10 for $240, other clients pay more than that, others pay less. The top bid for the next two days seems to be at $400 and $300 respectively right now, and will possibly always go up. That's the bid for the #1 placement. What $200 will get you depends almost entirely on what other people are bidding that day. Jenn
I think if you have already written the press release (the hard part) for one it is simple to resubmit to another one, two, or 3. I have four press release sites that I use. I write it then submit, and submit to 3 others. Prweb does get real journalist reading, and the others 3 mostly just get me a few hundred additional visitors. If I new a way to get a few hundred visitor in just 20 minutes work I would do it all day. Unfotunately my site is not news worthy enough for press releases every 20 minutes....more like every few of months I do one. Now that I think about it, I plan on submitting to a few more, maybe I can turn those 300 into 500! That 500 more could pay for the press release on prweb if you consider the cost of buying quality visitors.
The problem is that, unless they're picking you up for a story, they're not "quality visitors" at all. Most just pop in to get a peek at what the site is and leave if it's not instantly appealing to them. Newswires are supposed to get you coverage in media outlets, not a few hundred random visits. You're better off spending that time finding something newsworthy to do, and raising your chances of having a major media outlet pick up the story, which has the potential to bring you thousands or hundreds of thousands of quality visits from end-readers, not just journalists and bloggers. Jenn
Associated Press is the only one I'd mention, but depends on what your goal is really, some of the others mentioned may be good if you just want your press release online somewhere.