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.

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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.

Press Releases - Niche Marketing in the Web 2.0 World

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

FREE Press Release Sites

Paid Press Release Sites

We have collected a small list of sites where you can issue a press release by paying a fee or donation or whatever - generally this gives your releases better exposure and distribution and sometimes, this contribution turns off the competing ads so that

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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.

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.

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.

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Your press releases can become more popular :)

If you have issued online press releases, please submit a link to those and you can get more publicity for them - FREE.

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