Press Releases as SEO Strategy

[Vigilante]

Over the years, I have done many press releases. Some for clients, some for my own businesses.

The last one I did a few weeks back was for a client with a revolutionary new medical device. The press release had some pretty impressive metrics of reads, prints, and how many other media sources picked up the news and ran with it. We also carpet bombed major news sources like the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and others... hoping someone either locally or nationally would pick up the "news" and do a story on it.

In my experience, this rarely does much.

So, now my thinking, especially as it pertains to using some free press release distribution sites, is the value might be in SEO and additional hits for indexed terms from the press release. If the release lives forever, and brings people searching for those terms to your release... and that leads them to your site, maybe there is long term residual value in online press releases specifically to generate additional positive hits in search engine results.

I know every once in a while when I am searching Google for something, I come across some of our archived news releases.

@LightHouse I am specifically interested in your opinion on this.

 

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[nzerinto]

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[jason91]

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