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Great advice. The DIY way could easily be better. An informal study I read found a pretty strong correlation between featured stories and use of the standout tag.

Really good point here, be careful. Check out this on their penalty woes - http://blog.similarweb.com/can-pr-newswire-overcome-its-major-google-penalty . They've recovered a bit since the summer, but not fully.