The Ultimate Top 65 Free Press Release List
If you need to increase your visibility of your company, products or solutions at no cost then a press release is on of the best solutions.
Benefits of a Press Release:
- The search engines will index it – improving the SEO of your website
- Journalists might read it and re-use if it contains interesting news or information
- Potential customers can be reached
- Long lasting impact: can be found and retrieved from months to years later
Read the many tips you can find on the Internet and the write an interesting press release containing:
- a title: between 80 and 150 characters (best 80 characters)
- a summary: up to 200 to 250 characters long
- a message body: starting with location date
- a company summary
Keep at hand:
- Company address
- Telephone number
The cost is in the time you need to register for each of these web services and all the copy / paste you need to do. Don’t under estimate the time this will demand, especially the first time.
PageRank: the importance Google gives to the website.
Alexa rank: the lower the rank – the more people visit the website.
PR - Alexa
8 – 258 Scribd.com
7 – 2,611 Betanews.com
6 – 1,118 Docstoc.com
6 – 1,794 Prlog.org
6 – 27,142 PitchEngine
6 – 29,333 Directionsmag.com
5 – 1,987 Free-press-release.com
5 – 6,962 Pressreleasepoint.com
5 – 11,274 Pr.com
5 – 18,678 Pressbox.co.uk
5 – 21,729 Clickpress.com
5 - 25,307 Openpr.com
5 – 25,938 PR-USA
5 – 27,734 Freepressrelease.com.au
5 – 45,375 Ukprwire.com
5 – 46,609 Sbwire.com
5 – 713,443 Mediapitch.ning.com
4 – 8,354 Pr-inside.com
4 – 9,647 1888pressrelease.com
4 – 11,477 Transworldnews.com
4 – 16,245 24-7pressrelease.com
4 – 17,376 Bignews.biz
4 – 24,513 Freepressreleases.co.uk
4 – 25,307 Openpr.com
4 – 25,333 Pressmethod.com
4 – 26,961 Free-press-release-center.info
4 – 48,186 Usprwire.com
4 – 51,712 Free-news-release.com
4 – 61,789 Malebits.com
4 – 78,862 Przoom.com
4 – 86,008 Prfree.com
3 – 6,112 Ideamarketers.com
3 – 17,846 I-newswire.com
3 – 24,963 Live-pr.com
3 – 26,184 Pressexposure.com
3 – 27,594 Prurgent.com
3 – 29,964 Information-online.com
3 – 30,573 Theopenpress.com
3 - 35,270 Mediasyndicate.com
3 – 48,527 Pressabout.com
3 – 84,557 Prcompass.com
3 – 171,663 Newsreelnetwork.com
3 – 994,358 Media-press-release.com
2 – 27,255 Seenation.com
2 – 28,425 Newdesignworld.com
2 – 37,739 Pressreleasecirculation.com
2 – 43,603 Prwindow.com
2 – 45,095 Postafreepressrelease.com
2 – 135,614 Publicitywires.com
2 – 338,310 Free-news-distribution.com
2 – 429,492 Buzznewzz.com
1 – 27,453 Newsalbum.com
1 – 1,092,018 Pressbot.org
0 - 1,986 Free-press-release.com
0 - 2,608 Betanews.com
0 – 17,859 Bignews.biz
0 – 23,510 Businessportal24.com
0 – 35,715 Techprspider.com
0 – 45,523 Prfocus.com
0 – 48,023 Prmac.com
0 – 51,602 Exactrelease.com
0 – 62,091 Bizeurope.com
0 – 80,786 Ezpress.info
0 – 86,008 Prfree.com
0 – 189,012 Pressreleaseforum.com
0 – 195,376 Pressbox.com
Some web services (like PRLog) will generate a pdf version. Save it for use with Scribd.
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That was a great post and very accurate. Press releases also give that professional edge to a company. Just the phrase ‘press release’ implies a serious business with something to say.
The press release has always been one of the most valuable, yet, overlooked tools in getting the name of your company to the public. Although now you’re not likely to send an actual physical press release to the media, it’s still important to create one and then have it indexed so others an find out what your site is all about.
Great collection of press release websites. but there is a great directory which is missing. consider adding http://www.prbd.net
Might be handy if this list was updated letting us know whats dofollow and nofollow otherwise we’re wasting our time.
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That was a great post and very accurate. Press releases also give that professional edge to a company.