Press Release and Articles for SITE- Need attn from SEO or self made SEO

[jaman_gre]

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In every website, we should have
1. Articles
2. Press Release

Hi everybody,
After talking to James and other people who are in the SEO field, I realised that it is very important to do:
1. Articles
2. Press release
The reason why I am writing is I don’t know the boundary and subjects what to write on. Lets talk about the following two websites.
1. Get Discount Codes | Vouchers | Discounts | Promotions
2. Mobile phone deals. Compare mobile phones - modfones.co.uk
If I want to do the articles and press release for my Get_Discount_Codes site what would be the possible area to write and what exactly I need to write.
This applies for the modfones.co.uk as well.
You help is always much appreciated. Please give me clear advice so that i can do the experiment.
Regards’
J
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[drivetowin]

The important thing with a press release is that it has to have 'news' value

What is 'news' value will vary from one situation to the next but generally are you:

a) doing something that has never been done before? - no disrespect but looking at your sites the answer to this is no.

b) doing something better than it has ever been done before? - again no disrespect but again the answer is no (particulary your mobile site which appears to just be a white label)

c) offering something not available elsewhere? - again I suspect no

d) offering something with a local angle? - possibly - could be worth sending a press release to your local newspaper / radio station and see if they are interested.

Other than that, personally with those two sites I wouldn't bother with press releases as you've got nothing to grab a journalist's attention.

Even if you have news value, you have to accept that 90% of press releases will never get read and of those that do get read 90% will find their way in to the trash bin - and that's assuming you have a good news angle in the first place. That's why PR agencies (or good ones) command high fees - their skill is in a) building one to one relationships with journalists and editors and b) finding a news angle in the most mundane story.

[philhancox]

MyVoucherCodes have actually got a PR company working for them. I believe two of their stories so far have been the amount of money theyve saved for their customers in the last year through use of discount codes, and the funny sponsorship of the leopards thing (even the sponsorship is an affiliate link!).
Agree with drivetowin - it needs to capture journalists' attention, be something unique, interesting, different angle etc etc.

[jaman_gre]

Hi,
Thank you very much for your time.
I am really happy to see such an explained reply from you DriveT. Thanks to you too Phil.
But give me some ideas how can i get more traffics in my site. working really hard here and there. But Straggling- all the traffics are my mates and their mates.
any ideas would be appreciated. So come on...
regards'
J
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[Aspirin]

Even if you do a press release an no one reads it, Google probably will and that's the main objective here, SEO.

So keep thinking of ideas on what to do a press release for, keep sending them to PR sites and watch them nice back links you get.

Obviously the more newsworthy and interesting the PR is, the more exposure it will get.

You want more traffic? Either pay for advertising, Google Adwords, banner advertising on related sites or keep doing the above, getting links to your sites and moving up the natural search rankings.

Both options normally cost either a lot of time or money or both.

[jaman_gre]

Hi again,
Is there any chance you can give me some links where i can get more info about it and specially some good PR link. if u don't want to say here plz PM me.
anythingg related to that would be appreciated.
regards'
J from
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[Aspirin]

A couple i have used before are:

Press releases: press release writing press release distribution online news and press office services UK

PRWeb Direct Press Release Newswire

[dougs]

Press releases....if for links, then just write about anything and blast them out...if for journalists ring then and ask them what they are interested in.

Doug