Let me know how many hits you get to your site after 24 hours from that article. I might be interested in doing a press release to promote my new site.
hey, i did a press release yesterday and got 45000+ reads and 400+ pickups. Still waiting for the results. Here's the link: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb383484.htm
I'm at 26,692 reads and 377 pickups (1,4%) almost 12 hours after release. I believe 1,4% is a real good number.
That's great. But we need to keep in mind that not all pickups are finally published by the media. It is, in fact, a small percentage of that. But the backlink activity from insertions into Google News & Yahoo News itself is worth the effort.
I've done a couple of PRWeb releases and have been pleased as well. Any thoughts/experiences as to whether also submitting a press release to the "other" news release sites is worth the effort? Or is submitting just to PRWeb enough for each release? On my last release I began placement at a second PR site but got frustrated with it when a "free" release turned into pay at least $10.
If your press release is truely newsworthy, you should also manually send it to local and national news outlets such as newspapers and important blogs in your field. Since you've gone to the effort of creating a decent release, you should promote it as much as possible!
What kind of sites do you guys think should do a press release? For example, should i do a press release on a directory, entertainment sites (games, funny stuff etc), article sites, services?
hehe, spoken like a true coder. How much was your PR? The thing that has put me off before is the package choices... you have to read too much to know the difference.
Any site that has some geniune *news* to talk about. Don't just submit press releases for the sake of it. The point of a press release isn't really the direct reads, but the chance of your story being picked up by local and national press and getting exposure to 10s of thousands of people via this method.
Any word on actual changes in web traffic following the release and not merely how many times it was picked up?
Congratulations on your press release Seopti! I assume, you used the paid option from PRWeb? About how effective PR can be. Of course you will get some backlinks and such, but if you want to have it circulate wider you have to make it more human interest. Naturally it can be hard in more technical / web oriented businesses. I scanned through about 100 of the releases of that day. Only one which caught my mind was this one: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb387238.htm I would not be surprised if that actually got picked up by some papers. It was well written and gave many hooks, especially the controversy angle. Vast majority of the releases do read like they were just written purely to generate mechanical backlinks if that. Your thoughts?