Hello everyone Today we launched our new version of www.hiphop-battles.com With the launche I wrote my first press release and published it on PRWeb and other pr sites. The release got an editorial review of 4 and was published via enewswire on google and yahoo news. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb430845.htm I realy have to thank jhmattern for helping me giving the press release the professional touch it needed. But I want to thank all other members from digital point as well who helped me. THANK YOU The Press release got 6,631 views so far and constantly climbing.I
Thats real nice Looks like a goldmic killer Used to use goldmic a lot myself, may have to get back into it Is it free, it looks it?
Wow, that's awesome. I gotta give that a try myself, heh. What were the other PR sites that published too and were they as useful?
Yes other then goldmic we are totaly free. And we are not a text battle arena we only do audio battles. I have published it on 2 german pr sites and a hiphop pr site but I can't monitor the impact of these because they have no statistics But the current stats on PRWeb are: Reads 10,500 Estimated Pickup 127 Prints 1 Ah and I did a lot of forum promotion too
Hey, I was trying to view your press release. However, it seems the prweb link you have doesn't load? ... or is it just me?
The views are pretty good for that level. I just wanted something to weigh it against. Congrats. Jenn
That sounds really good. Out of interest, do you know how many unique users you got to your website through the press release or is that something that is hard to calculate?
The goal with a press release isn't really to get direct visitors. Remember... a press release is targeted towards members of the media; not members of your primary audience. You need to get the media to cover your news, which puts your story in front of a larger number of viewers who are in your target market for your site, and that's the way you use a press release to build quality incoming traffic. It can take weeks to figure out exactly how many of your visitors were a result though. You need to first find out who covered the story based on the release (you can find a lot of them by searching Google - but it can take time before everything's indexed). Then you need to check your referrer stats and see how many visitors those sources are sending you. It would be too early for him to determine how many actual visits resulted from the release yet. Jenn
Do you have any tips on how to search if someone published something about us? My projects has thousands of links so it should be hard to shift through all of them.
Well the only really good way is to hire a clipping service that will monitor online and offline media and send you the results. Google is a free option, but it's far from perfect, so there's no way you'll find everything, and you'll possibly even miss the best of them. Here's why: The best way to track release results through Google is to check periodically searching google, google news, and blogs, running the search for your press release title. Most online publications (especially small ones) won't write a unique story. They just repost the release. So you'll find them easily enough once they're indexed. Other than that, you can try to search for phrases unique to the release that another outlet may have used, even if they wrote up a real feature with their own unique title. In your case, since you launched a new feature, search for both the site name and the name of that new site area together. Jenn
Ok thank you for the tips. I will do that. Can you please give me some links to clipping services. Just so that I can take a look how expensive they are.
Depends what you mean. If you mean writing, it depends who you hire, if they're an actual PR professional or just a copywriter, if they're independent or if you hire a full service firm, etc. For upgrades on PRweb if that's what you mean, you decide on your own upgrade level. Certain levels get you certain benefits, but essentially it's like a bidding system. Whoever pays the most, gets the top spot in the PR listings on the site. Jenn