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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 [...]

Filed under: Distribution, Multimedia, News Release Features, SEO, Updates, User Experience, Visibility, Web site by Jiyan
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Part 2 Natural Search

In a recent post we took a look at how paid search can help you get visibility quickly in the search engines. This week, we’re looking at the other end of the spectrum for both speed and (to some extent) cost.
Natural Search- Also known as organic search requires patience, skill and [...]

Filed under: SEO, Small Business by Meg Walker
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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 [...]

Filed under: Distribution, SEO by Jiyan
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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 [...]

Filed under: Distribution, SEO, Visibility by Jiyan
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It used to be that small businesses looked to the Yellow Pages as a key source for leads. It is no longer and a sales executive here recently relayed this real life anecdote that captures the essence of why this is true:

Filed under: SEO, Small Business by Frank Strong
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Press releases can have a long search shelf-life. Some releases are simply amazing with their ability to drive traffic. This press release, from Leatherup.com, for example, is more than two years old and continues to draw traffic in the thousands.

Filed under: SEO, Tips and Tricks by Frank Strong
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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 [...]

Filed under: Distribution, SEO, Web site by Jiyan
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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 [...]

Filed under: Distribution, SEO, Social Media by Jiyan
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For the last few months we’ve noticed that Google has begun surfacing news results on Page 1 of their blended Web search.  After taking a closer look, here are a few specifics we have found:
1. News stories have approximately a 24-hour shelf life in blended search – In fact, news stories surface on page 1 [...]

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This Friday we are going to be rolling out several additional updates to our analytics dashboard including the following:

Hovers for ‘impressions breakdown’ – We will be adding hover menus with help text over the various fields in the breakdown table for impressions to better explain what those different values mean.
Table with exact counts for impressions, [...]

Filed under: Analytics, News Release Features, SEO, User Experience by Jiyan
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