Comments on: PRWeb

By: PR Writer

PR Writer — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:58:32 +0000

I used this service four or five times over the past three years, and chose the $360 package for maximum distribution and visibility. As someone who spent more than a decade writing press releases for a living, I know how to put together a good release, and several years ago, PRWeb did a good job of building traffic for us and getting us coverage. However, the last two times we put out a release, we got little more than “junk hits,” and were disappointed by the results. I know it’s not just the release, because I used the same release and sent it out to individual, targeted journalists on my own, and managed to get national coverage (both TV and newspaper) for my efforts. But the same release, sent earlier on PRWeb, got no real pick up, which was a disappointment. I suspect that press releases as a whole are getting less attention from overworked journalists who already get too much spam in their in boxes, and that this is part of the problem. Still, I found $360 to be too much to pay for the results we got (or didn’t get, as the case may be). I’m still debating about whether to try another service, in hopes of getting better results, or whether PR releases are simply less effective as a whole, in which case I may have to consider other venues instead.

By: PR GURU

PR GURU — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:05:24 +0000

Ted is one is a million who most likely did not use the system correctly. It’s terrific, and incresed my business to the point I could not expand as fast as the new business was coming in!! LOL

Buy their subscriptions! For 2-10K per year a small business you can crush your competition and get “picked up” by major news outlets, and industry outlets. They are top in the business!

By: Phonics Teacher

Phonics Teacher — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:59:19 +0000

Ted’s comment threw me for a minute… thanks for the correction Frank. There is definately a learning curve involved with writing press releases. I have been reading and learning quite a bit in the past couple days.

By: Frank Strong

Frank Strong — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:47:07 +0000

@Ted – small corerction: PRWeb’s network makes news and press releases available to an audience of more than 80 million unique visitors in the United States alone. In addition to PRWeb’s syndication network, PRWeb news releases are distributed directly to an audience of more than two million visitors each month on PRWeb.com, 300,000 direct subscribers, and thousands of media outlets and journalists.

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:30:38 +0000

As an SEO and online marketing professional. I find PRweb to be a professional and valuable service. I have been using their service for a year and the increased search engine rank i get is very noticeable. I consider PRweb to be an integral component to my overall SEO strategy.

By: Ted Fullerton

Ted Fullerton — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:49:04 +0000

I used them once and must say i got dupped. They do not have any direct channels to the media. In other words as a reporter told me they are not a wire service and just throw your release online, that’s it.

Quite a waste of money ($200) when I could have done the same myself.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:06:29 +0000

I used the PRWeb SEO visibility package ($200) and am pleased thus far with the results. It’s hard to know the long term SEO benefits just a couple of weeks after submitting, but the early benefits are definitely noticeable. I like that you can check the stats of the release – how many impressions and reads, etc.