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Yes, I believe I have experienced the opposite. I use PRWeb  a lot. The link value I find is not necessarily in the press release itself; it is in the many industry specific pickups that choose to re-post a well-written article. Today, most of my press release add considerable value to my clients because they are often picked-up in full with all links kept in tact. This means my article is carried by reader choice to my niche, giving the validation that search engines are seeking. Another key positive factor of a news worthy press release is that Google seems to understand  "duplicate content" in another light. When it is considered "news" search engines anticipate the content  being copied and shared. Hope that helps.

Awesome story. Thanks for sharing a real world experience. It's so important to go with a description that companies and marketing departments will understand.

Thanks for checking this out Francisco. Per your suggestion and after a little research, we actually went through today and removed our signature from all of the websites we manage. It is a tough pill to swallow since it seems like almost every design firm does this, but we want to do it right. And you are 100% correct, the footer link to the design firm's website is not best for SEO or the client, which is always our first priority. Thank you again for your response.

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/ http://www.copyblogger.com/successful-guest-blogging/ I do guest blogging to the best I can and what I usually do is: Find a few of the best blogs in the niche of the client, I look at all elements - check out the social channel numbers, the amount of social sharing on the posts, number of comments, number of posts going up daily/weekly, length of posts etc. I will then try and make a headline which fits in with the blog but hasn't been done to death. I will then usually create a list type article (Top 5) because I feel the information is broken down better in this format and allows for skim reading if the user doesn't want to sit there and read 2000 words (I make sure every heading has an image as well). The client goes in the byline. That's just me, im not a pro blogger/writer I just try to produce something I would be very proud to put on my own blog.

That would be the best. Those custom made CMS's can be ridiculously tricky sometimes.

Hi Max, Are you aware of the advice that if you move, you should create a new listing? Just wanted to make sure you knew that.