In the past, we’ve touched on the subject of optimizing your press releases for the search engines. As press release distribution has shifted steadily toward an online activity and with more companies placing news rooms on their websites, it’s become increasingly important to optimize your press releases to drive more search engine traffic and to attract targeted customers. However, there are still some who are skeptical about the whole idea of SEO press release distribution. And they have good reason. Make no mistake. The SEO press release has become synonymous with spam over the past few years due to free press release directories and shady marketing tactics, but that doesn’t mean all optimized press releases have to be this way. If you’re still on the fence about SEO press releases, consider these statistics gathered from PRWeb.
There are even some estimates that show about 80% of all internet sessions begin with a search. So, it’s clear that there are many benefits to be obtained by optimizing your press releases. You can:
Optimizing your press releases is easy The good news is you don’t have to be an SEO expert to properly optimize your press releases. It’s actually pretty simple.
A few good rules to live by for SEO press releases To make sure you don’t turn into an SEO spammer, here are some basic guidelines to stick to. 1. Never sacrifice readability when optimizing your press release. 2. Always have a newsworthy angle. 3. Don’t write press releases that read like advertisements. Do you optimize your press releases?
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Veronica
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Tamara De La Fuente
I really like the fact that you emphasized not compromising readability for seo. I try to have a press release out every month, but some of the things my management deems newsworthy are just not, and so I have not had a release in the last 3 months. I’d rather release something that qualifies as news, then to blindly push out communications that don’t add value.