We write press release to disclose and spread a news amongst readers. Press releases are becoming a successful way of Internet advertising. These not only provide valuable inbound links, but also increases traffic and thus your chances of getting located by search engines. But, all your efforts will get waste if the press release is not newsworthy or if it is distributed via a non-credible PR distribution site. There are only a few PR services providers who can provide you maximum visibility and credibility on the Internet. Follow these guidelines while choosing a press release distribution site:
- You should use a site that has a Google pagerank of 4 and above because sites with no pagerank will lower the credibility of the PR.
- Approach a site that allows you to optimize the press release for search engines by using header tags, tagging, anchor text and other SEO techniques.
- Keep away from sites that use NoFollow tags. These tags are inserted into website code in order to stop the search engine from finding the site.
So, here are a few press release sites that provide both free and paid distribution services. The list will help you in finding a reliable PR distribution service provider who will get you maximum visibility on the World Wide Web.
Press Release Sites-
- Free-Press-Release.com – PageRank 5- The best part of using it is that you can place banners on the press release that will point to your website. The paid service offered by this website has better ranking and many SEO benefits.
- Free-Press-Box.com – PageRank 5- Submitting your press release on to this site is really easy. It accepts free submissions as well as paid submissions.
- Free-Press-Index.com – PageRank 4- This PR site allows for instant submissions for free with inbound links to your site in place. For the paid service, they charge close $60, and distribute the release among 250,000 subscribers and journalists.
- NewswireToday.com - PageRank 6- The design of website is not good and you will difficulty in navigation also. It offers common free distribution tools and the premium service will enable you to give logo, product picture and insert other features in the press release.
- 1888PressRelease.com - PageRank 5- The site has good page rank and also gets good traffic. Active links are allowed. If you opt for their paid service, the placement will be better and you will get features like image galleries & permanent archiving.
- I-Newswire.com - PageRank 6- You get free PR distribution option to sites and search engines. If you opt for premium membership, the only difference is that you can add graphics on the PR.
- SB Wire.com - PageRank 4- It is specially dedicated site to small to medium-sized businesses. With the free service you can submit your press release and get connected to bloggers in your niche. For the paid program, they offer many packages starting from $14.95 to $99.95 (for unlimited search engine friendly releases).
- Free-Press-Release-Center.info - PageRank 4- It is a clean looking site and the increasing traffic level will increase the pagerank soon. You can do PR submission and distribution, include one link with the anchor text while availing free service. The paid service enables you to give three links, permanent archiving and has many more features.
- Online-PR-News.com - PageRank 5- The free submission service allows you to give one live link in the contact information area, you can have a search engine friendly title and meta. These releases will be archived. The paid submissions include social sharing buttons, and you can place 3 anchor text links, and also spice up your release with a suitable image.
- Add-PR.com - PageRank 3- This is a site, that allows only free PR submissions. You can leave a live link in the contact details section. The site is clean and crisp, and allows the exposure to potentially thousands of Internet media outlets.
- Big-News.biz – PageRank 4- This free submission site allows for easy registration, and you can quickly start on submitting your release. It allows for a link in the contact details section.
- News-By-Company.com - PageRank 3- This is free press release site, for small and medium business enterprises. It allows for a link in the anchor text and one in the contact information section. The interface is clean and the site has good credibility.
- PRLog.org - PageRank 6- It is an ordinary and functional looking site but results are good. It gives free distribution service for Google News and other search engines. Inbound links are allowed and the site is also properly optimized for search engines. You can schedule the press release.
- Wide-PR.com - PageRank 4- This free PR site is pretty good with its services, as with every free submissions, you get live links automatically integrated into your free press release. You can also load 3 images and also your company logo. Needless to say you can use optimized tags and keywords.
- Press-Release-Point.com - PageRank 5- This is a free site where you can sign up for either distribution of the release or for writing releases or both. It allows for 4 links in the body and 3 links in the contact section.
- OpenPR.com - PageRank 5-This service distribution site is based in Germany. It provides free submission and distribution along with SEO benefits.
Paid Press Release Distribution Sites-
- PRLeap.com - PageRank 5-The site is said to deliver reasonable results. It is nice and clean. The price of press release starts from $49 – $149, depending on the level of service you have opted for. The distribution is done on search engines, RSS feeds and newswires. .
- Press-Media-Wire.com - PageRank 4- This paid submission site offers three packages ranging from $19 to $99 per release. They assure you visibility with tools like video and pictures.
- PR-Fire.co.uk - PageRank 5- This paid site offers tailor made packages from £299, where they do all the work from sourcing a story to the final copy. They also allow for a free submission onto their site.
- PR.com - PageRank 6- The domain name is superb but you can say the services are not so appealing. The site has one free basic service and two paid services of $199 and $499. You can give full company profile by taking paid option.
Getting media coverage is the best form of marketing, but you need to make efforts to get good coverage. Choose the press release distribution site carefully, especially when you are paying for the service.
As an internet marketing expert, you must focus on the PR sites listed above to reap the maximum benefits of reaching out to the targeted audience.
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Thanks for the informative article. The given press release sites will be very useful to me.
Good advice in your blog. Thanks a lot.
What a wonderful read! Very helpful for a marketer. Thanks for the links.
Thank your for the excellent list or PR sites. I enjoy your blog.
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DO you have any recommendations for China distribution?
Very impressive and interesting list. Cheers.
Press releases are such an excellent tool for brand building, reputation management, SEO, and even traffic. This is a great list with several I've yet to try, so thanks!
very nice list here is another one good press release submission site http://www.prbd.net
Try out these two free press release sites.
http://www.freepressrelease.com.au
http://www.yourfreepressrelease.net
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Hello mates,
glad to introduce a new press release site, its completely free for submission.
site : http://princesimon.com
please add this to your list
So if the initial advice is to choose a press release site with a page rank of 4 or higher in Google, why did you provide all those page rank 5, 6, 7, 8 locations? Maybe I'm thinking backwards. But higher to me means closer to #1? Should I be thinking higher means closer to 10?
Thanks,
Yes, page ranks go from 1 to 10, higher numbers mean better.
Thanks for the helpful info. We've recently started paying much closer attention to how our press releases impact our web site and overall traffic. There are of course no shortage of a PR lists online, but none anywhere near as informative on the actual impact on our pagerank. Much appreciated!
so what service would you recommend for all round PR exposure for 24 to 30 PRs a year of 500 to 850 words each? Some kind of package arrangement, with a PR company with a page ranking of 6+? thanks.
This is very useful. Thanks for the list.
thx very helpful.
Great wrapup – I've been using a lot of these already, and also found some new ones! Thanks a lot!
really very good info. I have my own website and I always used to submit press release articles on referral program
2 new completely free pr sites
http://www.freepressrelease.com
and
http://www.freepressreleases.com
this is a good summary of pr distribution sites. another good source to compare press release services is
this is the site: http://www.bestpressreleasesites.com
you can also post a free press release on http://www.sogroop.com . Hope you like.
Just wanted to let you know that one of the URL's in your post leads to a domain parked page:
press-base.com
There are of course no shortage of a PR lists online, but none anywhere near as informative on the actual impact on our pagerank.
Great list – I did a search on Google for PR sites and didn't regret clicking on yours. I am using it for my PR distribution.
Thanks!
Ana Hoffman/YourNetBiz System
For the latest news and information http://www.25pressreleases.com is very usable and very easy to use.
great site..great list……….
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Here's another to add to that list:
Post Free Press Releases.com http://www.postfreepressreleases.com
Free account sign up, free press release submission, press releases published to the site immediately, and HTML links are allowed.
Cheers!
My site also offers this kind of services. You can check it too URL:http://www.pressreleasecentre.com
Thanks for the list. Please add this new free press release distribution service http://www.freepressbox.com in this list.
Thank You
Thanks for mentioning press release websites, I hope they all have some good PR
Great article. We run a car search website and currently don't do a lot of press releases but would like to use it more often and so trying to understand the different pr distro providers out there and which ones are recommended.
thank you so much for this article
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Exactly what I needed. I'm just starting to do press releases for my sites. Thank you
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The press releases websites that are given here are very helpful for the people to get into the field&.. Thanks for sharing&
Great information. You really spend some effort on this. It most certainly helps me and I shall be using most of the sites you have listed here for my blog.
I totally agree with this review – spot on. Some of the websites give great results, but the design can be shocking. Trying to remedy this with a more user-friendly, 100% free press release site at http://www.releasewire.org/ … it's only a month old and obviously doesn't have the PageRank yet, but hopefully one to watch!
Forgot to mention, in case anyone needs any tips writing their press release, take a look at: http://www.releasewire.org/how-to-write-a-press-r… – tried to pack in all the best advice I can thik of. And for pitching the release, there's http://www.releasewire.org/how-to-pitch-a-press-r…. Let me know how you get on with the advice!
A new press release site that's gaining some traction is pressreleaser.org The site design is clean and functional, and it free like all the others you have listed here.
You could also mention http://www.mycompanypr.com which is targeted at the B2B community – its free as well.
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Good work. Thanks.
Thank you a lot. This seems like the most comprehensive list with Page Ranks on web.
http://www.pr9.net/ seems like the one you could ad to your list. Page Rank 4 at the moment.
Thank you for huge work done!
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Just wanted to let you know that one of the URL's in your post leads to a domain parked page: http://articlesadv.com
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