| Driving
Traffic to Your Web Site with Online Press Releases
By
Ruth Kuttler, the "Web PuzzleMaster"
Would
you like to increase the visibility of your
news, improve your search engine rankings
and drive traffic to your web site? You can
do this effectively and affordably by distributing
your online news and press release to thousands
of top media organizations. The power of promotion
through news media is significantly greater
than any paid advertising that you do. Begin
by finding something newsworthy that relates
to your business. Then carefully prepare and
distribute a professional news release to
attract the media to you. Getting your message
in front of more than 40,000 media organizations
is easier than you think. You can target your
online press release locally, nationwide or
globally according to your needs.
Online
press releases can produce significant visibility
in ways that would not be feasible through
other methods. Companies that specialize in
distributing your news releases online allow
you to easily get in front of top journalists
and on high traffic web sites like Google
News and Yahoo. Some companies offer you options
to add pictures and multimedia to your release.
Your audio and video files can be extremely
effective in attracting the media's attention.
Your release can also be found by people who
find it through keyword searches.
Through our research, we have identified PRweb.com
as an excellent company for sending out news
releases. We do not profit from promoting
any PR company, except by preparing releases
that we send out in behalf of our clients.
We believe that PRweb.com is one of the best
companies for distributing news releases.
They can distribute your release to more than
40,000 top journalists in markets that pertain
to your industry and within any geographic
location. They offer options to add images
and multimedia to your release. You can also
track your results daily, weekly or both,
getting valuable information on headline impressions
and the number of page views read. I have
found customer support and education from
PRweb.com to be exceptional. They offer very
informative free basic and advanced training
sessions and are very helpful and willing
to answer all of your questions by email or
phone. In fact, they surprised me with a phone
call for providing me with additional assistance
when I first got started using their services.
Although
online press releases can be a very valuable
adjunct to your Internet marketing, they are
only effective if they arouse interest in
the media and prospects who read them. It
is essential therefore that they are newsworthy,
are written well and are optimized with respect
to relevant keywords and anchor links. They
should include a powerful headline and copy
that is relevant, easy to read and attractively
formatted. Sending a monthly release can be
one of your best marketing strategies - it
can go a long way towards helping to increase
your website traffic and SEO results.
©
2008 Web PuzzleMaster LLC, www.WebPuzzleMaster.com,
Ruth Kuttler, the Web PuzzleMaster, All rights
reserved.
Consultant, design and marketing specialist, Ruth Kuttler,
“the Web PuzzleMaster,” is the creator of “Winning
Marketing Secrets” E-zine. Get her FREE SPECIAL REPORT,
“10 Simple Secrets for Making your Website into a Selling
Machine!” at www.WebPuzzleMaster.com.
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provided it remains complete (including the contact information
at the end), and you send me a copy or link to your reprint
at ruth@webpuzzlemaster.com.
Thanks!
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