Free Press Release: Writing a press release can be a big help to your business since it is free marketing. Press releases are only of value if they get picked up by websites that display industry news and it is getting harder and harder to get a press release wide distribution. The two biggest press release services are PR NewsWire and Business Wire but they generally charge upwards of $1,000 dollars for a press release. There are many other services that will send out your press release for free but it is very much hit and miss so you will want to submit to more than one. This is time consuming but is necessary if you want a larger presence on the web. We are not affiliated with any of these sites in any way. If you have a suggestion for a site that works well that is not on our list let us know.
Comprehensive list of best free press release sites
Free Article Submission: Article submission can be an incredibly effective internet marketing and promotion tool. You can include your website link in an article as part of the article body or as part of your biography. Every site that publishes you article will increase your traffic and your page ranking but in order for your article to be publsihed you will need to write good original content that is relevent. A well written article may be published on hundreds of website which can product huge gains in traffic, page rank, and overall online exposure. Below are links to sites that publish articles and you can submit them yourself. There are submission services and software programs that will do this for you but they vary greatly in their quality. The links we have list are all top article sites.
Comprehensive list of best web directories
Free Web Directory Submission: Web directories are the information backbone of the internet and provide information to search engines based on their listings. Unlike search engines, web directories organize sites by category and are human edited so the listings are high quality and trusted by search engines. Listings in Web Directories will not only improve your website ranking in search engines, but provide valuable links to your site that will improve your sites overall page rank. This can be a tedious and time consuming task and be aware of services that “automatically” will do it for you. Some of them do a decent job and others are a complete scam. We have used a couple of these services with varying results. We have posted reviews of the ones we have used.
View our article on directory submission. You shouldn’t proceed without reading it.
Submit to directories manually
Wikipedia Entry: Wikipedia is one of the top rated sites on the internet and is a great way to improve your internet traffic and your page rank. Wikipedia listings must be done manually and are human edited so all information must be factual and unique. If you include any marketing or sales related phrases they will not list you. Wikipedias editors will only include listings that they think may be valuable to customers looking for facts so it can be difficult to get your company listed especially if you are in a consumer market that has a lot of competitors. If you can get listed it will go a long way to improving your sites ranking.
Submit to Wikipedia
You Tube video Entry: If you have any instructional or promotional video it is a very good Idea to put it on You Tube. Not only is the link valuable to your page rank (and thus ratings with top search engines) but can also drive traffic directly to your site. You Tube is one of the most popular sites on the internet and having a link from You Tube to your site will greatly improve your ranking in search engines.
Submit Video to You Tube
Yellow Pages Submission: Submit your business address to the Yellow Pages database so it can be listed both online and in the Yellow Pages phonebooks. This give you more presence on the web and in print. This is only valuable if you have a business that has a physical “walk in” location. If you have a store front, it is a great way to get your name listed in one more place. If you are a purely web based business it is of no value as they do not allow web links in their listings.
Submit to yellow pages