An In-depth Look Into Free Press Release Site

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An Overview

FREE doesn’t always equate to GOOD. In the press release case, some free press release sites do not provide backlinks, or anchor text links, or even any readability at all. In this post, we are going to have an in-depth look into the free press release sites. The free press release sites are gathered from the list I provided in my past post. However, after several usage and test on the sites, I have found out some sites no longer accept free submissions, and some sites are no longer there. I have filtered the list in to 20 press release sites. You can obtain the latest list here.

Search Engine Friendliness

The most important factor of a successful press release campaign is to gather backlinks (under anchor text, if possible). The problem here is, most of the press release sites do not allow in-context backlinks (with anchor text) at all for free submission. And even worse, some sites do not even provide backlinks. So it leaves you wonder, “What’s the point then?”.

The winners, backlinks with anchor-text:
http://www.free-news-release.com/
http://www.freepressreleases.co.uk/
http://www.i-newswire.com/
http://www.prleap.com/

Evil losers, no backlinks if you don’t pay:
http://express-press-release.com
http://www.free-press-release.com
http://www.prfree.com/

Ease of Submission

The truth: everybody hates registration. They need to fill out the long form with particulars that perhaps they filled in millions of times in their entire life. The passwords reminders. The passwords. The email verification. Ahh, just horrible. The best press release site, in my opinion, has to void out the registration part, and make the submission smooth and easy.

Winners (no registration, direct submission):
http://www.click2newsites.com/
http://www.free-news-release.com/
http://www.i-newswire.com/
http://www.pressbox.co.uk/

Losers that frustrates us:
http://www.pr9.net/ <-require different account registration for different company press submission. Damn!

Readership

The second objective (which should be the first) of the press release is getting your message to reach a widespread audience. Some press release sites are visited by thousands of webmasters everyday. Some are like a spam portal full with viagra and cialis, who’s gonna read them?

Well known winners:
http://www.prweb.com/
http://www.prleap.com/

Losers
http://www.free-news-release.com/
http://www.free-press-release.com
http://www.prfree.com/

Conclusion

Actually, any publicity, no matter how small, is a good publicity. Although we particular prefer quality press release sites like PRLeap, PRWeb and I-Newswire, but we normally submit all of the sites. Well it’s free(tell me you don’t like free stuff), so there aren’t too much to complain about, right? :)

Lim CS on August 11, 2006

25 Responses

    ContractLaboratory.com allows laboratories and science related companies to publish free science and laboratory related press releases and news at http://www.contractlaboratory.com/labclass/news.cfm

    Sophie on August 12th, 2006

    Thank you for this tip. It has helped me at least to evaluate a suitable Press Release site for my blog.

    cjcm on August 19th, 2006

    thanks for the guidelines :)

    LcF on August 19th, 2006

    Good job classifying those free web release sites. I had tons of headache looking for the best one.

    Your guide is simple and very very helpful. Thanks

    Iskandar on August 22nd, 2006

    Thank you for your comments, cjcm, Liew and Iskandar. Glad that you find this useful ;)

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    This is great, the various ideas and the list of links is fantastic, just to say, my site went online in February 2005 and 95% of my back links are from press releases, but to be honest here, the best pull came from paid releases and that is not to say that free does not get the job done the distribution sites seem to put more effort if you pay for your release.

    Mark

    Mark Felix on January 27th, 2007

    http://www.searchbyheadlines.com/login.aspx
    Search By Headlines is a unique news site that allows users to search or submit news by headlines. Some unique features… Search news by category of Stock news, private company news, association or non profit news and by industry. Submit news with 3 different rotating headlines!

    Joe Loeppky on January 31st, 2007

    Can i suggest a web 2.0 press website:
    http://www.newdesignworld.com/press/

    George on February 21st, 2007

    http://www.prleap.com and http://express-press-release.com brought best results to our company. Both sites are very good in controlling the spam and EPR has a vast reach across different US states with their network of more than 10 PR sites…

    Al Bismark on March 9th, 2007

    Good guide!

    Anonymous on April 30th, 2007

    Thanks for that analysis! It really helps. Cheers

    gbonnet on April 30th, 2007

    I liked that guide thank a lot

    Web Search on May 16th, 2007

    he best pull came from paid releases and that is not to say that free does not get the job done the distribution sites seem to put more effort if you pay for your release.
    Al

    insurancegator on June 6th, 2007

    It can be just as cost effective to hire a local PR company to fire out a series of press releases as it is to use the paid online services.

    Football Boots on June 8th, 2007

    A Free Press Release Blog - http://www.PressAbout.com

    PressAbout on June 12th, 2007

    Two more news release and article submission sites

    Submit News by Headlines, keywords and industry
    Search By Headlines
    http://www.searchbyheadlines.com

    Investorideas.com
    Submit News, Articles and Research by sector http://www.investorideas.com/NewsUploader/Submission.aspx

    MacKenzie on June 14th, 2007

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    Audie on August 6th, 2007

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    Lenna on September 4th, 2007

    Another good piece of work from our Malaysian SEO expert.

    Eddie Law on October 29th, 2007

    Prweb isn’t free they want to charge me to put send out a press release

    matt on December 7th, 2007

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