Press Relases as Link Building is valid?
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Dear Mates,
We are looking for increase our Domain Authority, so we was submitting our site to BOW, Yahoo Directory and we want to know if Press Releases sites (paid press) are too good to do the inversion.
What sites are recommended, we think could be very usefull build a list of the real top PR sites (Paid and Free)
Thank you for your time
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Actually, one aspect that we forgot to mention was that the real link value is not from the press release. The real value is if any of the online blogs or newspapers picks up the story and runs it, hopefully with a link.
http://www.prweb.com/ is said to reach many "real" writers. Have not used it myself though.
If you use it, please share your experiences.
Fredrik
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I think its hard to say exactly what is the ONE best site for this. It also depends on what kind of products you have.
One of the biggest problems is that your press release lives for a very short time on for example a frontpage. Then where does it go? Does it have a dedicated URL?
We have been using www.mynewsdesk.com, there you get your profile page and that has time to collect some pagrank. You can see the below example of one of our clients:
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/lmg
If you have a look at that in OpenSiteExplorer you can se that the pagerank is atleast decent.
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mynewsdesk.com%2Fse%2Fpressroom%2Flmg
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PRweb & if money isn't really the issue, go with BusinessWire. The PRweb.com link itself will probably be the most valuable from a PRWeb release though, unless you get picked up outside of the typical syndication network. BusinessWire works the same way, but has a better professional image.
If you have the money and do not have newsworthy announcements, look into facilitating an outreach campaign or buying some friendships of authoritative sites within your industry. Donating to relevant foundations, sponsoring local events (with websites) and work harder to get known online, digitally within your industry online.
There are tools & strategies that will help you identify the resource-related authority sites within your industry too.
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The main idea is to increase the Domain Authority (the budget is not the problem),
So what is the best or most trusted resourced to submit PR and get great authority?
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Hi Claudio
Some PR sites are great and some not so great. You have to check the domain and pagerank of the page where your release will be posted. Will it also rotate and be shown on frontpage? How long? Also make sure you have proper links back to your landingpage and make sure they are not put as nofollow.
You can use www.opensiteexplorer.org to investigate the pageranks etc
Here is also a list of free PR sites:
- Free-Press-Release.com
- PRLog.org
- ClickPress.com
- NewswireToday.com
- Express-Press-Release.net
- Free-Press-Release-Center.info
- TheOpenPress.com
- PressMethod.com
- PressBox.co.uk
- BusinessServicesuk
Good luck
Fredrik
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