Press Releases - Niche Marketing in the Web 2.0 World

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Online Press Releases Can Get You Tons of Publicity and New Visitors

Online press releases are an excellent method to build branding, credibility and get tons of new visitors to your site. You also get hundreds of backlinks to your site, which add to your organic site ranking on leading search engines.

This is the Web 2.0 world where the visitor has much more say than the site owner. When you are taking advantage of direct to consumer press releases, made popular by sites like PRWEB, you can get the word out about your new product or service much faster than the conventional system.

Within hours of your announcement, online news sites and bloggers will pick up your news and you can start getting visitors. All in all, this is possibly the best bang-for-buck promotion strategy.

Get free tips and secrets of press releases here. And if you have recently issued a news release that you are proud to show off, please add a link to the list at the bottom of this page. You will get a good quality one way link to your release.

Update: A few visitors have asked me if I can help them write and issue press releases. I offer an optimized press release writing and submission service here. Check it out!

Update: We will soon be announcing a press release contest with 10 prizes of $200 each (total $2,000). Watch this space :)

 

FREE Press Release Sites 

Here are some sites that accept your free press releases. When you are tight on the budget, you can use them to get started on the online publicity.

Most of these offer upgrade features whereby you can get better placement by paying some extra money.

Secrets of Press Releases : How many do you already know? 

Get hold of these press release samples and tips to add a zing to your press releases.

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Have you used online press releases? Please share your experience. 

I will love to hear about your experience with online press releases, whether good or bad. Please tell us how it went and what do you think about this medium for getting more publicity for your site and products.

DivisiveCotton wrote...

Here's one free press release service you missed out rentablogger, http://www.pressrelease001.com/

ReplyPosted January 08, 2009

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ReplyPosted June 27, 2008

driewe wrote...

Nice Lens and great rent a blogs you set up for your clients - good use of web 2.0, I gave you 5 stars
High Demand Low Supply Profitability = Profitable Niche

ReplyPosted December 20, 2007

angada wrote...

In the upcoming Web 2.0 world, the only 2 secrets to a website's success are: Social Bookmarking and Press Releases. Press releases will help bring new people to your website and generate some good links too. If you havnt started press releasing yet.. start it NOW!

ReplyPosted October 10, 2007

shubhangam wrote...

PRESS RELEASES = Great Traffic, quality promotion and a brillant ROI. enough said...

ReplyPosted October 10, 2007

stevepartos wrote...

I have released a PR for my web site, and seen a dramatic increase in traffic, and even customers.

ReplyPosted September 05, 2007

DesignAndPromote wrote...

I have found that adding keyword rich press release to the many free press release sites gets my websites listed very high in Google for those keywords. Other websites that display the news using RSS feeds also helps by getting me even more links.
Bruce Jones http://www.designandpromote.com

ReplyPosted August 12, 2007

worldviewpr wrote...

write a great headline, focus, and get key terms up front

ReplyPosted July 24, 2007

endgamepr wrote...

I'm a big fan of online news release distribution, and actually published a podcast reviewing a handful of companies recently. If you're interested, check out episode #5 of Startup Bizcast, a podcast featuring advice for small business owners.

ReplyPosted July 09, 2007

safestyle wrote...

We use press releases regularly to send out news about the new developments including the public service initiatives we launch at Safestyle. They work very well.

ReplyPosted July 04, 2007

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Press release videos on YouTube 

Just when you thought your press release can only work with the print media, you found that you can even have video based press releases.

Check out these videos and then issue a press release yourself - in video :)

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Books Related to Press Releases 

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I Need a Killer Press Release--Now What???: A Guide to Online PR

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Press Releases Are Not a PR Strategy

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How to Write Powerful Press Releases

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Press Release Tips 

You can see quite a few press release tips here.

Please feel free to bookmark the site because we will be adding a lot of tips to get more out of every press release that you publish.