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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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, [...]

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Over the years the volume of news releases distributed over PRWeb has increased dramatically. As the volume of content on our site has risen, we have made a variety of structural and technical changes to better accommodate the millions of bloggers, journalists and consumers (and search engine crawlers) who visit our site every month.
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