Top 10 List of Press Release Optimization
One of my favorite new bloggers, Shimon Sandler, posted a great top 10 list of optimization techniques for press releases as well as a number of good press release websites to improve your PR marketing efforts. Enjoy:) Here is a Top 10 List of Bestpractices.
1. Keyword Selection. Keyword selection is a crucial part of press release optimization. Be very careful while deciding on a keyword phrase that is relevant to the release. Optimize the Press Release for only 1 or 2 keyword phrases. Do this based on your business objectives for each campaign.
2. Keyword placement. Be sure to place keyword phrase into the Headline AND the Title of the press release. Try to repeat it nearly 3-5 times for every 100 words within the content of the release. Put two hyperlinks that contain the chosen keyword within the content.
3. Generally speaking, don’t use abbreviations. Write out full keyword text.
4. Use an occasional bold-type for the keyword phrase.
5. Replace pronouns with keyword phrase. Instead of using “their”, or “it’s”, use the keyword phrase.
6. Select the right PR distribution networks. Below is a list of press release distribution services that are search engine friendly and can offer an excellent channel for link building as well as getting your news distributed.
http://www.prweb.com
http://www.prleap.com
http://i-newswire.com
http://www.webwire.com
http://www.pressbox.co.uk
http://www.pr.com
http://www.marketwire.com
7. Make the effort for substantial media coverage. Eg: Make list of publications, send emails and correspondence emails to journalists for the release. Make sure you don’t send the complete release into the email. Write a concise but short intro, and include the URL to the entire press release with the email.
8. Make it easy for journalists to read. Everyday thousands of press releases are emailed to the journalists. So make the press release presentable and well written to be noticed by them. Journalists usually ignore poorly written releases.
9. Offer RSS feeds. Help journalists by offering RSS feeds specifically for your Press Releases. Many journalists specialize in a specific topic, and categorize their feed reader by subjects. So, make it easy for journalists to find your Press Release. “KISS” (Keep It Sweet and Simple).
10. Publish releases frequently. It’ll benefit your entire domain to have frequent, additional, and unique content crawled by the Search Engines.
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