Is SEOPressReleases.com worth the money? My experiment
- The press release does indeed get submitted to dozens of legit media outlets, usually local newspaper and TV sites.
- They give a pretty thorough report of where the press release got published. I like that a lot. If you were submitting press releases for a client, this would make you look like a hero
- After two days, none of the press releases has appeared on Google News. My $15 WebWire submission did make it.
- The HTML page on SEOPressReleaes.com showing your press release modestly demotes its own links to nofollow so that your links will get more of the glory
- Upon submission, it looks like all the other sites publishing your press releases convert your links to nofollow as well. But somewhere along the line, links get converted using what looks like some sort of gray hattish technique, illustrated below.
Whereas my HTML source looks something like this (I have replaced all mentions of my company with a generic domain so this doesn't come off as self promotion):
<p>The sale is still open at <a href="http://www.example.com/free">www.example.com</a>. </p>
<p>The sale is still open at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/free">http</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examplecom/free">://</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/free">www</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/free">.</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/free">example</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/free">.</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/free">com</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/free">/</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.example.com/free">free</a>. </p> |
While I disagree with this tactic I shall submit occasional press releases using SEOPressReleases in the future, using a third party (I probably don't release enough press releases to pay for the service myself), in this case the WF's own Colin Palfrey. Not for the sketchy link multiplication but for their widely cast distribution net.