Free Press Release Submission Services Reviewed
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.
I was also using two other press release websites that had do-follow links, Google news syndication and the most important, 3 anchor text links, both for free. Now only one is up.
From that list, I prefer bignewz.biz, had some awesome results by using it.
wow, thanks a lot man. this is good info, excellent post! ^_^
Thanks for writing this post. I am kind of just starting out in the whole SEO world and am eager to learn all I can! I have heard really great things about getting links in Press Releases but it was my understanding that only the paid ones would work. Thank you for giving us some free sites and information about each one. Someday I plan to be able to pay for a Press Release Submission Service, but when you are just starting out it is nice to have some free options! I am looking forward to giving them a try. Thanks again for this post!!
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Thanks for the useful post. We are providing seo services & we know the importance of Press Release. Press Release provides quality backlinks to our site as well as a great traffic. The sites you have mentioned in your post are very effective. Once again thanks for the post.