Press Release Sites

[atstickel12]

Has anyone ever used macreportmedia.com for press releases? I normally use PR Web. This new company contacted me and it sounds pretty good, but I don't really trust anything without reviews, and I can't seem to find any out there. Has anyone had any luck with these guys? If not, can you suggest anything other than PR Web that you've had success with? I'm really looking for the SEO benefits of the releases more than the publicity.

[ditoroin]

With a PR3 and Domain Authority - 32, this website will not give you any SEO benefit.

If you need a good Press Release site other than PRWeb, you should try:

• http://www.prnewswire.com/
• http://www.i-newswire.com/
• http://www.prleap.com/

[jesse-landry]

I'm curious what more people think about these PR sites. I know that they are supposed to be less and less effective but I see a ton of sites building links out like crazy from them and getting good ranking for their clearly anchor-text targeted keywords.

What do you all think? I know it's kind of a gray area even though Google is against it, but they can't necessarily count these as penalties right?... because there are actual bonafide press releases coming out of them?

Other decent DA PR sites, so that I'm contributing:

MarketWire.com
24-7 press release
SB Wire

[danatanseo]

Depends on your content, but we use Christian Newswire http://christiannewswire.com/  We've been extremely happy with them. They are responsive, have wide distribution and are more reasonably priced than PRWeb.

[atstickel12]

I haven't ventured outside of PRWeb yet, but honestly I don't know how effective they are. The one link you get from the actual press release is good, but as far as I can tell the online pick-up, albeit large (100+ sites usually), isn't that helpful as the individual pages don't seem to be getting indexed. I ended up with 3 free press releases from PRWeb in their attempt to make up for an extremely rude tech support guy, but I can't say they have done a whole lot for me. I have one more release to use and then I think I may find something else. I hear prnewswire.com is good, but its so expensive!

[ALLee]

Other than prweb and prnewswire, I also recommend marketwire.

In the most recent SMX, Matt Cutts talked about how google doesn't count the press release links because they are essentially paid links.

The most important thing you need to think about when choosing the press distribution sites is how wide of a net it casts, so that  your story actually gets picked up by journalists and they write about you, hopefully with a link. The actual link from the press release (ex. prweb.com/ xxxxx) has no SEO value, in my opinion.