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This past Friday at midnight, we rolled out a brand new PRWeb.com.  This launch was the result of countless hours of effort logged by a wide variety of individuals – from developers, to designers, to writers and more, this was truly a collaborative effort that spanned the company.
Also worth noting is that the launch is [...]

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Note (7/1 @ 5:02 PM ET) – As of 12AM this morning, the situation has been resolved.  Thanks to both the teams at McAfee as well as Yahoo! for helping us rectify the situation in an efficient manner.
In the past day, some customers may have noticed the PRWeb hosted version of their news release showing [...]

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At PRWeb, we review and distribute hundreds of releases on a daily basis to countless bloggers, journalists and Web sites.  If we sent every piece of content to every single member of our audience we’d quickly overwhelm them with and it wouldn’t be long until we saw our news recipients opting-out.  In order to ensure [...]

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It is pretty common in our industry to talk about about getting your news release to Google, Bing or Yahoo! but what does this actually mean?
First off, it’s important to note that no one (despite what you may be told) can guarantee very much when it comes to the search engines.  However, what we are [...]

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When PRWeb was still a fledgling start-up operating on a freemium model, we decided to offer placement on the PRWeb.com home page as an enticement to upgrade the value of a release. At this point in time, there was a far smaller volume of news releases being published each day and front page placement [...]

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Over the next few weeks you will see some modifications to the actual news release template being rolled out. These modifications are aimed at accomplishing several important goals including.  Top-level goals include A) Improving the experience for those reading and interacting with the news release, and B) Improving the search friendliness of the news [...]

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This morning we announced an exciting, new partnership with Zemanta, aimed at enhancing the reach of our customer news releases into the blogosphere.
I like to think about Zemanta as an Associated Press for bloggers.  They basically are a resource that provides contextually relevant content for bloggers while they are writing their stories.  Through our partnership, [...]

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We have recently finalized several new syndication partnerships with leading Web sites including:

Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) Web Properties – The leading trade association for multi-channel marketers. PRWeb news releases will appear on their website, blog and online trade magazine.
Website Magazine – Website Magazine offers website professionals information on how to succeed on the web. Reaching [...]

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We’re pleased to introduce a significant addition to our industry-leading distribution network, Comtex. Comtex aggregates content from premium news providers like PRWeb and then makes that content available to a broad array of top-tier publishers.
We have already seen many customer news releases appearing on top Web sites through the partnership and expect to see [...]

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PRWeb was the pioneer in using RSS to distribute news releases and our RSS network is the oldest, largest and most highly trafficked in the industry.  Using RSS we accomplish two goals: One, we get news releases to news consumers (people who want to read the news).  Two, we get news releases to publishers (people [...]

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