Are seo press releases with links from PRWEB helpful ?

[jlane9]

I am thinking of doing some press releases from PRWEB. they offer a press release with live links for better seo effect. Is this really effective ? Has any one seen this to be benficial ?

[Marcus_Miller]

As with anything like this, if you are spamming out some press releases to generate some easy links, don't bother. The links won't do much and they will sink from site in an internet minute.

If you are using PRWeb to generate some exposure for something that is kind of cool, and that people may actually link to outside of PRWeb then it can have some merit.

So, to answer your question, yes and no. Yes if you use it as a tool for exposure, no if you use it for a tool to generate 'easy' links.

Hope this helps!
Marcus

[jlane9]

Hello Marcus,

Thank you for the quick reply.

I am new on here and want to try and understand better.

I have a tanning salon and have just gotten a new spray tan booth that is a bit different than most as its open concept so the client does not breath in the over spray. in my opinion its a little safer than most spray tan machines.

I want to get my spray tan page ranked #1  in my small city low competition, and thought the press release would generate enough links and exposure to get that done.

In general will the live links on the press release hosted on pr webs site help in this regard ?

Or does the press release have to be linked to by others to get the value ?

or am I totally way off base ?

[goodlegaladvice]

In an easy answer yes they are helpful but they don't like you spam links so be smart about it. And what you are trying to accomplish

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey Jane, a little off base here. Let me try and help.

Can you say which search terms you are going after? If you can drop them in the post (or PM me) then we can look how difficult they are, look at your site and

Really, I would look at doing this with some content. It seems like you know why this is a better machine, start talking about it online. If there are some kind of tanning communities or other blogs, see if you can network with some people and do some guest posting to generate some better links with more longevity.

Honestly, it all depends on how competitive it is for the keywords you are after but a few high quality links, some focused service type landing pages and some content articles to try and go after the larger slice of search than just dry transactional queries will all help.

If you blog about tanning, share your knowledge, use twitter to network and reach out to lots of other tan / beauty related blogs and see if you can guest post. Identify some targets, add comments, get friendly with folks, let them see your amazing blog, then ask if you can guest post. You would be surprised how easy this can be and if your competition are just doing the same tired old stuff then... you will see results from this.

PRWeb - meh, can be okay, but for what you want to do, you may be better writing content for your own site and networking with other bloggers. If you are small as well, a few quality directories, maybe there are some vertical directories? Maybe there is a tanning community where you can share some knowledge, make some more contacts etc.

Hope that helps!