PR web

NeverBeg · #1 10-29-2005, 10:20 AM

Hey, i am thinking about writing a press release for my site to put up on PR Web, has anyone ever used this to help promote their site? Anybody have a good experience with them. Someone told me it gave their site a lot of good exposure. Thanks in advance, any help would be much appretiated.

#2 10-29-2005, 10:22 AM

i paid thirty bucks, got about 200 hits from it. It will get search engine rankings if their is not much competition so account for that.

Nick0r · #3 10-29-2005, 10:30 AM

I paid $90 or so and I have to be honest, it didn't bring much at all, apart from a few links..

MarkusS · #4 10-29-2005, 11:59 AM

I think that the day you launch a new site that you intend to put energy into longterm that doing a $120 pressrelease on PRWeb is probably a good idea.

The $80 level already gives you ultimate SE exposure but the extra $40 gets you better exposure at the PRWeb website, which if it gets you atleast one RMP then pays for itself. Not saying it always will but I reckon it's worth it longterm.

Also when you reach the $80 level you get guaranteed inclusion in Yahoo news etc, unless you pressrelease stinks totally, and I believe but this is just a theory, that the searchengines MIGHT take this into account slightly in the SERPS as to how trusted your domain is. When you are starting out with a totally fresh domain anything that might easily distinguish you from all the new spam domains out there and speed you up to the higher positions is useful.

I don't do paid pressreleases for all poker websites I open but certainly for the ones I put a lot of work into.

#5 10-29-2005, 01:07 PM

Here's an example of a very well written press release that Randy and I recently did. I don't think PR's are going to give you magical numbers of RMP's but it is just one more peice of the puzzle and probably a nessecity when opening up and promoting a new site.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/10/prweb303101.htm

NeverBeg · #6 10-29-2005, 03:13 PM

Jeremy - I assume you did the 120 dollar press release, right?

#7 10-29-2005, 03:15 PM

No, I did the $81 press release and yesterday had about 120 visitors to the site from the link in that PR.

NeverBeg · #8 10-29-2005, 03:23 PM

Does PR web show you those stats? Or do you have your own stat tracker, which do you use, sorry if that is a very "beginner" type question to be asking...

#9 10-29-2005, 03:46 PM

PR Web will give you stats but not actual traffic stats about if your link was followed. I use my own traffic program for this.

On the PR mentioned above I have had 23,000 reads, 528 pick-ups, and 12 prints resulting in 120+ actual hits to this site. Here is a screenshot of how your stats look.

PRweb Screenshot

NeverBeg · #10 10-31-2005, 01:28 PM

Just wondering if anyone could help me find the site that shows the popularity of certain key words when submitting a press release, does one exist?