is it worth anything or they ruin rankings? lots of people use these free PR sites and not sure if any proof of anything, unless u use paid PRs
PR is just picked by journalist and bloggers who search for news. Rather than rely all on PR, it's better to present your site every where possible like: Article Directories, Forums, Document Sharing sites, Torrent sites, Contest sites, Social sites, ebook directory, podcast directory, software directory, Widget directory, Classsified ad sites, etc. Reproduce your content into article, audio, video, software/application (just a simple one), widget, toolbar, wallpaper, ebook, etc as many as possible to get YOU every where. Success for you.
A professional press release does the job it is intended to do - to get target audience to your website or offline store and helps with visibility to search engines as well.And for a professional service you need to pay.But quality PR services are relatively inexpensive at places like prattack and helps your business get leads.But please be sure as far as Internet marketing is concerned, press release is just one of the methods and like any individual methods, works better in the long run if its done in cohesion with other link building techniques. " Paying for quality is cost saver in itself."
I believe press releases are a great way to get new leads as well as diversify your link portfolio. I don't know if this is true either, but I was going to run a few tests, but I have heard that prlog can sometimes get a press release ranked for a low comp keyword in regular google. This used to be the case with press releases and ranking in google but that is long gone and we all know that press releases can get ranked in Google News, but still being ranked in Google would be surprising news to me! I am def gna try a few test runs with prlog for some of my clients. If i see what I like, I'll be sure to let you know the results of the tests keywords.
I think here is another good one. you can check this pressbangladesh.com I got medium range traffic from this Free press release site
Yeah i agree with andrikrisha.Rely only on one technique is not enough and try to submit your site every where.I have not gone for paid PR's.Instaed of that i have used social networking,it is also good approach for creating awareness about your site and products.
press release is the best ways to syndicate your news articles (especially the premium press release not free sites)
But still there are some marketers that are using Press Release and found it helpful I think its depend on how you are doing it.
Press release sites plays a role of new channel. suppose your company have news or won some awards, so you can use the press release site for news submission which really helpful. press release sites get cache in google very fast and they have lot of traffic as well. useful sites: pr-inside.com pressbox.co.uk free-press-release.com i-newswire.com Hope this will help you.
Press releases will boost your traffic but only if you provide valuable content. Do not plagiarise or reuse much used content, aim for someting original and you will be pleasantly surprised by the results.