Free Press Release Sites: Free Press Release Sites | List of Over 100 Free Press Release Sites

Marketing is an essential part of a successful business. A press release is an important tool in marketing. If you are a small business owner, you may need press release distribution services to promote your business. Most of these services charge fees, but there are an increasing number of free press release sites available on the internet. If you have a tight marketing budget, you may be interested in these websites.

Here I will compile a list of free press release sites. Then I will try to answer 3 questions including:
How to distinguish good free press release sites from bad ones?
How to use press release sites appropriately?
What are the benefits of using press release sites?

The following is a list of free press release sites that I found on the web. Some of them may also provide paid services, but here I only focus on their free features.

Free Press Release Sites (from A to Z)

Please note: All the sites listed above are for informational purposes only. I haven’t used most of these services and I am not endorsing them. If some of these sites do not provide free PR submission service, just let me know and I will remove them. If you know a free press release site not listed here, you can add it by leaving a comment below.

Please note: After clicking on the links below, you will see interstitial ads served by Adfly. To skip the ad and go to the free press release site, you just click the "skip ad" button found on the top right corner on your monitor screen.

How to choose free press release websites
There are many websites willing to publish your press release. Some of them are good; others may not be worth your attention. If you have the time and energy, you can submit your article to all of them. If you don’t want to waste your time on some useless submissions, you have to consider which press release sites are worth submitting to. When choosing press release sites, you have to ask yourself several questions:

1. Is the press release (PR) site popular?
We definitely want to publish our articles on a popular website, because we want to gain more exposure for our businesses. A popular website means that there are more visitors to the site regularly. How do I know whether a PR site is popular or not? You can check the website’s Alexa traffic rank. Besides, you can also check the website’s Google page rank. Usually, the higher Alexa traffic rank and the higher Google page rank, the better the website.

2. Is their PR submission service free of charge?
Nowadays, there are some press release sites providing both free and paid distribution services. Usually the paid service comes with better features.

3. Do you need to register to submit your article?
Most of these PR sites will ask you to become a registered member first. You have to provide some of your information such as email to create an account on the site. Once your account has been activated, you can login to your account to submit your article. But some PR sites allow you to save the hassle and do the press release submission immediately after registration without logging into your account.

4. Do they allow you to add a HTML anchor tag in your article?
Some free press release sites allow you to add HTML anchor tags in your story, others don’t. Some sites only allow paid customers to use this feature.

5. How long will it take to get your submitted article approved on the site?
After submitting your story, you may need to wait for a couple of days before your submission gets approved. The approval time varies among PR sites. Some sites may approve your submission only in 1 or 2 days, others may take forever. The approval time is usually longer in the free service than the paid service.

Tips for using press release sites:
1. Make sure your story is newsworthy and written in the appropriate press release format.
2. Sites with high Google page rank (higher than PR4) will increase the credibility of the story.
3. Use all the available search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to make your article search engine friendly.
4. Some people think sites with “follow” links are better than those with “nofollow” links in the sense of SEO. This may be true for Google search engine, but it may not be true for other search engines. We don’t exactly know how search engines weigh “follow” and “nofollow” links in their algorithms.

Benefits of using press release sites:
1. Gain more exposure of your blog, website, online store, products or services on the web. The more people are aware of your business, the more potential customers you will have. Believe it or not, all business transactions begin with the awareness of products or services.
2. Get more back links to your website. In general more back links means better SEO. One way to make your website search engine optimized is to get back links from other people’s sites, particularly those high quality backlinks.
3. Get more traffic to your website.

If you are a person scratching your head and asking the question:
“Where can I publish a press release for free? Where can I find free press release sites?”
I hope after reading this post, you will be able to answer these questions.

Free Press Release Sites

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Free Press Release Sites | List of Over 100 Free Press Release Sites

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