Google and PRWeb

[weezle11]

Does Google frown at backlinks coming from PRweb? Does this violate Google's guidelines since your basically paying them to distribute your news content?

[EGOL]

Anybody who has dough to blow can get a document published on PRweb.

As long ago as 2005 Matt Cutts was betting that those links were not too valuable.

http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=51

Are they against Google's guidelines?  I'd say probably not, but that's foggy, because you are paying for an announcement, and the links are part of the service.  It is a lot different from buying anchor text links on a website.

I would not submit anything to PRweb even if it was free.... or even if they paid me $50 to write a press release.  There is more valuable uses for my time and I believe that the site has so much rubbish that most good news reporters (and their robots) also have better uses for their time.