Recently, thanks to Ponn’s offer, I had a chance to participate in webinar by Mario Bonilla of PRWeb. I strongly recommend to sign up and participate in one of his webinars even if you already have been using PRWeb. Don’t forget Ponn’s offer while you doing so, her offer is extended to every one- new PRWeb users as well as current PRWeb customers.
If you never used PRWeb in the past, Mario webinars will walk you through the basics of using the PRWeb interface as well as help you to understand the differences in the levels of press releases. As I mentioned in one of my previous posts I have utilized PRWeb in the past, during the time when PRWeb still had a $40 level of press release as well as a free one. Neither of these levels is offered currently and the lowest available press release comes at $80.
Since I am preparing a $200 press release for one of my affiliate websites I would like to share with you some of the 44 cool features available with this level. While I plan to take advantage of all the features, I am going to share here the ones that I see to be most important.
- Industry Targets. If you ever were to visit PRWeb you would notice that each pres release is placed within a particular industry. With $200 level press release you will have an opportunity to place your press release within ten different industries. So if you provide SEO services to your clients but have extensive experience optimizing Real Estate or Financial websites, you should consider the possibility of including your press release in those industries as well.
- Hyperlink Anchor Tags. Instead of using the URL of your website, with $200 press release you are allowed to embed the keywords in the links to your website. This feature will help you to boost the relevancy in search results on the search engines.
- Google Sitemap Placement. PRWeb will include your press release into their Google Sitemap. While your press release will appear on the front page of PRWeb and considering the fact that the site enjoys PR 7 (and probably very frequent spidering by search engines), this option is just a topping on the cake, to ensure your press release is spidered and indexed in a timely manner.
- URL Keywords. With $200 press release you will be able to submit up to two keywords to be included in the URL of your press release.
- Trackbacks Feature. This feature allows you to activate trackbacks to any webiste able to send pingbacks when referencing your press release. This feature can also work as an incentive for bloggers to write about your press release and in turn to get a trackback from PRWeb to their own blog.
- Pheedo Distribution Network. Your press release will be picked up by Phedoo, which in turn can translate in additional highly targeted traffic.
- Yahoo News Inclusion. If your press release receives editorial score of 4, your press release will be available on Yahoo News as a hosted copy and also will be available for inclusion in their search results.
- Google News. The same is true about Google News. Your release will be available for inclusion in their news section providing that you achieve editorial score of 4. (Just a note about editorial score. If your score is 3 and below, your press release is queued and does not go live until you made the recommended changes. I have only used PRWeb once in the past, and it was not that difficult to achieve editorial score of 4. Considering the fact that English is not my native language).
Again these are only few great things about PRWeb and if you have not tried it for your business I highly recommend to give them a try. Again with Ponn’s offer, you will get $200 towards your press release. All you need to do is to participate in one of Mario Bonalla’s webianrs, which I personally found to be extremely informative.
An extremely thorough post Vlad. Thank you for the mention!
Did you just take my notes and transcribe them? Just Kiddin'
Please note that one can utilize PRWeb.com with a $10 – $79 donation. Although you will not have access to most (if any) of the services listed above.
Hoping you can “track” your results for ROI via your own web stats. Have you asked Mario about this?
Another great feature, is that you can edit (and submit for review) any of your press releases. Therefore, if you can't figure out how to 'track' a particular URL now when your press release goes live, and you figure it out later down the road. You can update your press release thereafter.
I think you got a great blog!! Thank you for that. I'm definitely going to add u to my favorite 🙂 I hope you can visit my forum at http://www.esldf.com/ – ESL Discussion Forums
An extremely thorough post Vlad. Thank you for the mention!
Did you just take my notes and transcribe them? Just Kiddin’
Please note that one can utilize PRWeb.com with a $10 – $79 donation. Although you will not have access to most (if any) of the services listed above.
Hoping you can “track” your results for ROI via your own web stats. Have you asked Mario about this?
Another great feature, is that you can edit (and submit for review) any of your press releases. Therefore, if you can’t figure out how to ‘track’ a particular URL now when your press release goes live, and you figure it out later down the road. You can update your press release thereafter.
Thanks Ponn,
No, I did not have a chance to speak with Mario yet, maybe tomorrow. I think it may be a little difficult to track ROI. I am going to use it for an affiliate website…. There might be a way to provide an custom URLs… But I actually not that worry about it. I really look forward to the “visibility” the release will provide me with.
@mo
Thanks for stopping by. I will take a look at your website.
I think you got a great blog!! Thank you for that. I’m definitely going to add u to my favorite 🙂 I hope you can visit my forum at http://www.esldf.com/ – ESL Discussion Forums
Thanks Ponn,
No, I did not have a chance to speak with Mario yet, maybe tomorrow. I think it may be a little difficult to track ROI. I am going to use it for an affiliate website…. There might be a way to provide an custom URLs… But I actually not that worry about it. I really look forward to the “visibility” the release will provide me with.
@mo
Thanks for stopping by. I will take a look at your website.
Interesting, I am going to sign up to Ponn's newsletter and get my Press release out. I will hire someone to write it for me though… I think it will be more effective if a pro do it for me.
Franck,
I believe there are few options available at PRWeb the lowest being about $65- your write the release but some one else would polish it for you. I believe at about $180 they can write your release. If you do sign up for a webinar make sure to ask Mario questions. He is really good guy and will offer you as much help as you need.
Interesting, I am going to sign up to Ponn’s newsletter and get my Press release out. I will hire someone to write it for me though… I think it will be more effective if a pro do it for me.
Franck,
I believe there are few options available at PRWeb the lowest being about $65- your write the release but some one else would polish it for you. I believe at about $180 they can write your release. If you do sign up for a webinar make sure to ask Mario questions. He is really good guy and will offer you as much help as you need.
Thanks vlad, I may use the service of Ponn for $100, I don't want to write it myself.
I also know someone who is really strong at Press release, I'll see.
Thanks vlad, I may use the service of Ponn for $100, I don’t want to write it myself.
I also know someone who is really strong at Press release, I’ll see.
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