Internet Marketing: Best Paid and Free Press Release Sites
Our list of the best PR websites to submit your press releases for maximum SEO and traffic opportunities
When submitting your press releases to PR sites, there are two important factors that a PR site should offer you:
- Credibility: Some PR sites are considered spammy by Google and other search engines, so submitting your press release to less than credible sites won’t do you any favors. You can check the credibility of different PR sites by checking their rank in Alexa.
- Search Engine Optimization: Good PR sites are built for SEO—they allow tagging, anchor text links, keyword data and other search engine elements. Sites that prohibit you from optimizing your press release are working for themselves, not you.
And there is one factor that you should avoid:
- NoFollow Tags: You want to avoid sites that use NoFollow tags. NoFollow tags on a website tell search engines that any link you put on their site is not endorsed by them. Without these tags, the site is allowing your link to be seen as a credible recommendation by them, thus increasing your pagerank. Many sites use NoFollow tags to reduce spam in comments and submissions, but again, this won’t help you increase your pagerank and credibility.
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With all of that said, we’d like to show you our most updated list of the best PR sites to submit your press release to for maximum SEO and traffic. Keep in mind that most of the free sites also offer paid plans with extra features.
Free press release sites below are in order alphabetically, but our most recommended site is PRLog.org because it has shown to give press releases the highest rank in search engines. PRLog.org allows you to have clickable links, one image, company logo, and multiple tags/keywords.
Paid press release sites below are in order of pricing, but our most recommended site is PRNewswire.com which not only allows you to optimize your press releases and will get you ranked higher than most other sites, it also offers activity and SEO reporting on each press release you submit.
| Free Press Release Sites | Paid Press Release Sites |
| 1888PressRelease.com | PRNewsWire.com (contact for pricing) |
| ECommWire.com | 24-7Pressrelease.com $10 minimum ($45 though really) |
| Free-News-Release.com | PR.com $30 minimum |
| Free-Press-Release-Center.info | PRLeap.com $49 minimum |
| I-NewsWire.com | PRWeb.com $80 minimum |
| Information-online.com | PRBuzz.com $99 minimum |
| OpenPR.com | eWorldWire.com $99 minimum |
| PR9.net | MassMediaDistribution.com $299 for country-wide distribution |
| PressAbout.com | eReleases.com $399 minimum |
| PressReleasePoint.com | MarketWire.com $415 for 1st 400 words |
| PR-Inside.com | URLwire.com $495 minimum |
| PRLog.org |
The differences between paid and free press release sites:
Free press release sites are usually only web-based and may or may not let you include photos, videos, or HTML formatted content.
Paid press release sites usually have a press list that they will send your press releases to in addition to posting your release on their website and in their RSS feed. Many paid sites also offer extra SEO benefits like tagging, the option to edit your meta data, and grammar-checking.
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April 8th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I liked your information on all the best free Press Release sites and all The best Paid Press Release sites. I needed a press release done for me. When I contacted most of these you could not really get a real person. I had lots of questions and they all directed me to an email that I had to post my question on and they would reply via email. Even more incredible was the fact that a lot of theses sites wanted me to create a user name and password first. That to me is extremely annoying. I decided to gop with a site a friend recommended that was not on here. He told me the price was reasonable and you don’t have to sign up. While yes I also had to send an email, they contacted me within 5 minutes of my email. NO JOKE..Try it.. The site http://www.prunderground.com really helped me out and understood my needs. I have become a fan of theirs thank in part to their excellent customer service and great rankings for my release. I am surprised they are not listed on your list.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I really liked your blog article! Please keep up the good work. Thanks!
May 18th, 2009 at 7:07 am
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