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What Would You Pay for This Link?

by ChristianSites
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If someone could get you a link from a page on news.yahoo.com, what would you pay for it? It would be well-placed in context. Eventually, the page it is on would likely have ~PR2, if PR is ever updated.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    $159 is what PRWeb charges. Releases get picked up by news.yahoo.com and hundreds of other high-profile sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by ChristianSites View Post

    If someone could get you a link from a page on news.yahoo.com, what would you pay for it? It would be well-placed in context. Eventually, the page it is on would likely have ~PR2, if PR is ever updated.
    PR is updated everyday. We just cannot see it.

    Like Ron said, if you do a good press release, it will be picked up on news.yahoo.com. Why is this one anything special?
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    • Profile picture of the author ChristianSites
      I've avoided traditional press releases, for fear of them simply going onto spammy sites. I am able to get something specifically on news.yahoo.com, though, and was wondering what that might be worth. Is it safe to us PRWeb, though? That would be a better option, certainly. Or, is there another high-quality press-release site I should use?
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    PRweb is nothing impressive
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    • Profile picture of the author ChristianSites
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      PRweb is nothing impressive
      Would you suggest a different service? Or doing it yourself? If so, how?
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by ChristianSites View Post

        Would you suggest a different service? Or doing it yourself? If so, how?
        I'm not impressed by any of the press release distribution services but when you look at it from a price point of view and your release isn't too news worthy then you could go just as well for SBwire which is a hell of a lot cheaper when you have to submit many releases.

        Mike F is right about the news worthy, mostly it was not very news worthy, even when I asked clients if they had some news they were all kind of clueless about what to write so in the end the news angle was mostly something like: "SEO service group is announcing their latest client...." - which was also the demand from PRweb with the yearly deal that we had for $3850/365 releases a year.

        Despite that it ends up on dozen or so sites that link directly to you it really gave zero ranking benefit every single time. Besides that it distributes to more sites but mostly it strips out the links and links back to the source instead, which is PRweb, so it ends up as a natural link pyramid but again zero ranking benefit. Other SEO's already warned me for it but I was stubborn.

        Anyway it provided some link diversity for what it's worth.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      PRweb is nothing impressive

      I disagree with that. It really depends on the quality of the press release. If it is some junky press release about someone's affiliate website, yeah the results are going to suck. No service in the world will get that picked up by a large number of credible services.

      However, if you have a "real" business and something that is actually press release worthy, I have seen them get picked up and posted to some great sources through PRweb
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        I disagree with that. It really depends on the quality of the press release. If it is some junky press release about someone's affiliate website, yeah the results are going to suck. No service in the world will get that picked up by a large number of credible services.

        However, if you have a "real" business and something that is actually press release worthy, I have seen them get picked up and posted to some great sources through PRweb
        That's the whole issue, most real local businesses have nothing news worthy to announce besides some new discount coupon or something.
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        • Profile picture of the author ChristianSites
          Nik0 - hopefully I will learn from your honesty and not be quite as stubborn - that will be a challenge .

          I realize the biggest challenge with press releases is actually having news. Would offering a scholarship be considered news worthy?
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        • Profile picture of the author Samuel Adams
          Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

          That's the whole issue, most real local businesses have nothing news worthy to announce besides some new discount coupon or something.
          Let's take an example of a carpet cleaning company who is using a new way to clean carpets or a new type of allergy free cleaner. Wouldn't that be useful to include in a press release?
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
            Originally Posted by Samuel Adams View Post

            Let's take an example of a carpet cleaning company who is using a new way to clean carpets or a new type of allergy free cleaner. Wouldn't that be useful to include in a press release?
            Or a company that supports a particular charity. Press releases can work but they generally need to have a lot of creativity that people either don't have or don't want to pay for.
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            • Profile picture of the author nik0
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              Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

              Or a company that supports a particular charity.
              Lol how cheap would that look.

              I just checked some releases from PRweb to see how "viral" they went (as that's the whole purpose right), well not a single one so far and it obvious doesn't surprise me.

              Even Yahoo doesn't pick it up lol.
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          • Profile picture of the author nik0
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            Originally Posted by Samuel Adams View Post

            Let's take an example of a carpet cleaning company who is using a new way to clean carpets or a new type of allergy free cleaner. Wouldn't that be useful to include in a press release?
            Yes would be useful but how often does it happen.

            I asked tons of local businesses like electricians and plumbers for some news, no one could come up with anything.

            So this is purely assuming that many local businesses are innovative while most are not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Weedy92
    Newspaper links aren't as strong as they used to be..
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  • Profile picture of the author Lokahi
    Assuming it was a static link from the Yahoo home page, you could not actually put a price on that. For the press release links, those are just temporarily and scroll off the page as soon as other news stories come up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by ChristianSites View Post

    If someone could get you a link from a page on news.yahoo.com, what would you pay for it? It would be well-placed in context. Eventually, the page it is on would likely have ~PR2, if PR is ever updated.
    Seems to me more detail is needed. People are assuming probably rightfully that its a PR web link but perhaps if you confirmed that and said the price you were being quoted it might help more
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    The problem with the press release examples you are using is that none of them is newsworthy, you need a profesional writer to write a good story, this is one of the best Public Relationship examples I have heard of:

    Meet the $1,000 pizza.. | Reuters

    I heard an interview with him and he admitidely said it was a PR stunt to get the press to anounce his restaurant, he said that he has probably sold a couple of those pizzas per year, but the publicity it brings you is priceless, so if you craft a good story, create a newsworthy press release and create the anchor text it will absolutely help you, but most of the people just create spammy content, spammy press releases and think try to kill the messenger instead to pay attention to the message.

    I have bought those backlinks from yahoo, and if the content is interesting they bring good traffic, no so much PR since they just stay for short period of time in the home page, unless you get a good writer (collaborator) and her profile has PR those articles helps you to have a backlink from a reliable source and some traffic, depending on your niche it may help you a little.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by patadeperro View Post

      The problem with the press release examples you are using is that none of them is newsworthy, you need a profesional writer to write a good story, this is one of the best Public Relationship examples I have heard of:

      Meet the $1,000 pizza.. | Reuters

      I heard an interview with him and he admitidely said it was a PR stunt to get the press to anounce his restaurant, he said that he has sell probably a couple of those pizzas over the years, but the publicity in brings you is priceless, so if you craft a good story, create a newsworthy press release and create the anchor text it will absolutely help you, but most of the people just create spammy content, spammy press releases and think try to kill the messenger instead to pay attention to the message.
      Lol I read about that pizza at some news site before indeed
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