Free Press Release Submission Services Reviewed

HP Jeschke — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:46:39 +0000

Press releases are a great way to not only get exposure for your company, but also very suited to get quality backlinks for your web site. While I usually recommend PRNewswire.com or if the budget is a little tighter prweb.com, there are instances when you do not want to spend $150 to $650 for one press release. There are a bunch of free press release distribution sites.

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Most of them are pretty worthless: They either nave no PageRank, no traffic or allow no dofollow links (unless you upgrade and pay between $1 and $50). But there are some press release distribution sites that have PageRank, good traffic and allow links that are dofollow.

URL	Alexa Ranking	PageRank	Comments	Google News
www.prlog.org		PR6	Free submission, dofollow links (without anchor text)	Yes	sample press release
www.pr-inside.com		PR6	Free submission, dofollow links (without anchor text)	Yes	sample press release
www.bignews.biz		PR5	Free submission, 1 dofollow link (without anchor text)	Yes	sample press release
www.onlineprnews.com		PR5	Free submission, 1 dofollow link (without anchor text)	Yes	sample press release
www.live-pr.com		PR5	Free submission, several dofollow links (without anchor text)	Yes	sample press release

If a press release service is not syndicated by Google News, it’s plain worthless. I’ve submitted to them just to have some more meat for the story. If I would have only used services that submit to Google, you might have take that fact for granted.

By the way, there is one secret weapon in regards to press release services. It brings you the PR News Wire distribution (at least the online part) for only $350 as opposed to $650 directly. Just give me a call to find out more

UPdate 12/26/2010:

www.prlog.com is now listed in Google news.

High PR Web 2.0 Properties for Link Building in SEO

HP Jeschke — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:34:12 +0000

Building links is an important aspect of every SEO campaign. Aside from internal linking it is important to have external links as well. What you basically do is create some unique content, like artilces or videos and instead of slapping this content directly on your site, you create an account on one ore several of high PR web 2.0 properties and tab into their traffic as well.

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By exposing your content to this particular audience you will increase your authority status, as well as getting additional traffic and some links that contribute to your site. make sure that the content that you create on an outside web 2.0 property is really stellar.

Each of these web 2.0 sites has a unique audience and they can either add value to your site (by voting, leaving comments etc.) or they can completely trash your site. So, make sure that you deliver a high value to these communities and you will be rewarded handsomely, not only by them, but also by Bing, Google and Yahoo.

What are Web 2.0 Properties?

Caroline Middlebrook defines this in an excellent post Link Building #2 – Web 2.0 Properties:

An Internet property is basically any kind of web page and web 2.0 is generally thought of to be interactive in some way allowing people to contribute to the site, rather than just read from it. A blog is web 2.0 (for the blogger), Facebook is web 2.0, Flickr is web 2.0 and social bookmarking sites are all web 2.0. It’s a broad word that encompasses many kinds of sites but what we’re interested in here are web 2.0 sites that allow you to have a slice of the Internet property for yourself – somewhere where you can create your own web page.

Here is a list of some Web 2.0 properties that you can use to create content on and in turn get backlinks for your SEO project:

If you know of other High PR Web 2.0 properties that should be added to this list, please leave a comment.

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High PR Web 2.0 Properties for Link Building in SEO