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Press releases are the best way to build more backlinks and get more traffic. Now a days most of them using press release as an their daily basis work.

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Press releases are the best way to build more backlinks and get more traffic in addition to article marketing

Press release is one of the best way to increase instant traffic to your website
These websites syndicate your content to many other sites and other news feeds, spreading the message severely and generating massive traffic for your website.
An another cool reason behind to use press releases is that they are crawled very soon by search engines and provide huge traffic to your websites.

Press releases have great help in making brand value of business . Press releases helps to increase with direct traffic over website . 1888press release is one of best site .

Press releases are still working for some niche. While you will be launching a new product or service, through press release you will be able let a bigger audience to know about it. It works fantastic for technology related sites.

Same, Still working. Make sure to make them newsworthy and submit to only good sites instead of many. Here is a good list. - Top 29 Press Release Websites : BlogHug.com

The truth is if you have nothing to say do not even start a press release.

A lot of people use this like article directory, it's not only wrong but not going to work for the intended purpose because it has no planning..

Press releases are hardly effective from SEO point of view, not only me says that (who submitted 150+ Premium $369 costing PRweb press releases in the last months, got a yearly deal so obvious for a ton cheaper or I would have felt hugely ripped off) but a few other SEO's that I know confirmed it as well.

The only thing that it's good for is that it creates some natural back links opposed to all the public sites that everyone and his mother can spam

When using the exact anchor txt inside the release it can even be dangerous to submit press releases (especially for brand new sites) as it generates a few dozen tier 1 links so I would always suggest to use the url and domain name as anchor txt.

Just another little tip: SBwire and E-mailwire are DEAD, you should be happy to get 1 or 2 back links from them after submitting a $99 costing release. Just trust me on that.

I was very disappointed with my first (and possibly last) press release. I used a PRWeb Premium package through a company who actually wrote the press release. I do not see any backlinks whatsoever (other than those that PRWeb shows you) as a result. My Alexa ranking did not change at all.

The PR pointed to my home page and a couple articles on the web site and seems generally well-written.

Maybe my expectations were too high (the marketing company might have had something to do with that), but as far as I can tell I have just thrown away that money. How can I even tell if the campaign did any good?

Most of you uses it for backlinking purposes only but I also used this for exposure. Most of the companies that feature their press release to well-known websites got a good exposure.

Ronnie

Few press release sites give option to create links but mostly PR is used to get direct traffic to your site.

Use High Quality Domain Press Release because they easily index quickly and they have good reputation in market and search engines.

It still have values. but the sites having higher page rank gives you the effective back link.

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Press releases are the best way to get links , the only thing you need to do is write quality content , and write a press release or news release of whatever is going on those days , go to google news , pick up a topic of your niche , and write something about it , it will get picked up by so many sites.

Press releases still provide the best benefits and help in crawling up the search engine rankings really fast. Wonder why their importance is reduced these days.

Many marketers say that don't use PR anymore. However, I've decided to test that myself, because I'm curious about the "additional" traffic PR will give me. I'll let you know my results.

I am just wondering how I see the real world results of the PR. It doesn't appear that my primary keyword phrase brings my web site any higher in the SERPs. How can I say it was really worth it?

Press releases is tricky thing. You're submitting press releases to get attentions from news and pr media. If you've something great (i.e. product, service or concept) and need attention from news media then you can distribute PR and they write news about you. SERPs has nothing to do with PR directly.

Press releases are the best way to get links and second being forums.
As long as you can post quality content on a service you have to offer then I know that you'll see success in building quality backlinks and generating good traffic!

Press releases could help attracting "curious" traffic. Also some business partners... a few links... usually the free PR's aren't worth too much. Tried several a few years ago and didn't pay off.

Try them, just don't expect too much. Do a little article marketing.

I still see a lot of PRweb releases in the serps, have to believe that some PR services are still worth the money. Also have seen some use for reputation management. I would not count on any anchor text bump from releases, but a good one that makes it to the right outlets can definitely have a positive effect.

For both quality targeted traffic and do-follow links make sure Google News is included. Usual price around $100 on forums.

For backlinks purpuses and some useful and relevant traffic use regular newswire sites or services that offer reports. Around $35 you can get it here at WF, depends provider as usual.

Hope this helps.

What about free press release services (PRlog.org etc.)??

Are free press release services beneficial for backlink building?

We see a trend of increased ranking for press releases right now. Might be because of changes of the search engine algorithms. Don't expect the same traffic as from "bought traffic", but the CTR tends to be very high (20-50%). Some of our press releases get consistantly 30-50 views a day and 15-20 clicks from that.

our main source of traffic now days is press releases.

I would say 95% of people do it wrong!! probalby more!

ON the test we did, you cannot just spin a crappy article and submit it, but most people do. You cannot just do a high quality article and post it.

After years of studying and research what works. We even hire a retired journo to do all our press releases for a low fee, and they work well.

But like I said 95% or so people do it wrong. From what I see. They just post articles and then come back to the warrior forum saying press releases are crap. LOL. so funny!

You have to know what works, create news around an event, and learn how to link bait and make it worthwhile for people to read, and send them over to your optin page. ITs not a science its actually more of an artform, But get it right and you can kill it with this 1 traffic techniqes, its worked wonders for our business.

I still think it is working all the sites which you mentioned and others which I use are still present, it helps me to get good results.

Go to PRweb and you will see where they are now.

I think there is only a few good press release website now.They are still effective in seo and time cannot be wasted on posting on no-follow ones.

Are they still helpful?

While you will be launching a new product in market than press release is much better way to promote your service and business. Press release still working as it is and you can get direct tarffic via press release.
Thank's

I always use paid Press Release so that my press release might have opportunities to rank on most high PR site like CNN, Yahoo and others top technologies site.
I think it still helpful compare to getting backlink with forum, classified, social bookmarking that short content will be ignore and less weight.

Press release are still working, you can avoid article submission but press release is best for one way links, you can get more traffic from press release also.

Was and still is one of the best ways for targeted traffic- from both news sites and search engines (thank to the jump in ranking and the rankings of news sites you published on)

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