Updated on October 19, 2019.
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Press release distribution is a powerful off-page SEO technique, employed to build top quality links for a site. It was the focal point of 2009 link-building campaigns; Many high-end SEO companies used this technique to:
1- Provide their clients with a presence on Google News
2- Drive more targeted traffic to their clients’ sites
3- Obtain high-quality inbound links
The benefits of publishing press releases online go much beyond these. You can use this tactic to gain immediate exposure for your business, attract business partnerships, boost your sales potential and brand yourself as an expert in your chosen niche or industry. Press releases are an extraordinary, highly affordable addition that you should not forget to include in your marketing toolkit.
For all the benefits that press releases have to offer, you can bet that they are here to stay for the longest period of time. It’s only that press release SEO strategies will continue to evolve.
We too have been using press releases for multiple years. In fact, we spent countless hours researching and testing different press release distribution sites and prepared a list, given below. This list will help you identify the best press release distribution sites on the web and only submit to those that are worthwhile – saving a lot of time, money and energy in testing them yourself.
Note: You’ll need a standard, high-quality press release before submitting to these sites, or your release will be rejected.
Press release distribution sites – ranked based on the ROI we observed:
| Name | Google Page Rank | Text Links/URLs Allowed | Pricing Options |
| prnewswire.com | 8 | 5 | Depends on your industry, location, release date and etc. |
| prweb.com | 7 | 5 | $99-$189-$289 |
| newswire.ca | 7 | 4 | Depends on your industry, location, release date and etc. |
| 24-7pressrelease.com | 6 | 8 | $49-$89-$139-$389 |
| PRleap.com | 6 | 6 | $98 |
| i-newswire.com | 6 | 3 | $199 for 2 |
| prlog.org | 6 | 3 | Free-$49 |
| SBwire.com | 5 | 8 | Free-$39-$59 |
| pr.com | 6 | 3 | Free-$30-$50-$60-$100 |
| onlineprnews.com | 4 | 3 | Free-$22-$79-$349 |
| impactwire.com | 5 | 6 | $5 |
| webwire.com | 5 | 5 | $34.95-$199.95-$289 |
| TransWorldNews.Com | 4 | 8 | $49.95-$99.95-$999-$2495 |
| ClickPress.com | 4 | 3 | $75 |
| Release-News.com | 4 | 5 | Free-$22-$59 |
| pressrelease365.com | 4 | 5 | $24.95-$49.95-$99.95 |
| pressat.co.uk | 4 | 2 | £110 |
| pressbox.com | 4 | 8 | Free-£150 |
| RushPRnews.com | 4 | 10 | $30-$80 to $150 |
| theopenpress.com | 4 | 5 | $80-$160-$288-$442-$780-$1352 |
| emailwire.com | 4 | 5 | $99-$199-$999 |
| wiredprnews.com | 4 | 2 | $24.95 |
| briefingwire.com | 4 | 1 | Free-$20 |
| prurgent.com | 3 | 5 | $9.95-$25 |
| ukPRwire.com | 3 | 5 | Free-£55-£90 |
| usprwire.com | 3 | 5 | Free-$75-$125 |
| seopressreleases.com | 2 | 8 | $49-$69-$99 |
You have both free and paid options from which to select. Pick whichever platform suits your marketing budget and start writing your press releases right away. Just remember that your news story must be well-crafted with a unique angle.
Hi,
Awesome blog post.
I was looking for some good press release distribution for my Architects website “https://architects4design.com/ ” at Bangalore that’s when i came across your website which had lots of informative content on a single blog post.
This helped to plan my budget for publishing on particular sites. Thank you again for writing such wonderful blog posts.
Thank you,
Architect Vijay
You forgot one of, in my opinion, the best companies out there, EIN Presswire. They have been around for a long time, they’ve got some of the best placements, a very intuitive interface, and their prices are very competitive: $49.95 per release or $249 for 5 releases, $399 for 10 releases plus 2 free, or $999 for 50 releases. I definitely recommend them!
Thank you for sharing best press release sites list.
Hi, It’s a great list. It’s very useful to increase traffic on SEO. Thank you for your great information.
Really helpful list,thanks for sharing
Thanks for the list I am searching for this and I found it here.
I agree with your point 🙂
These are all helpful PR sites for better SEO results, thanks.
Hi
Does anyone have an idea about abnewswire.com though? It’s targeted media distribution is very reasonable even the web , but I am not sure if it’s any good. I would appreciate your feedback.
Thanks.
As Alex mentioned, there is PRUnderground.com, which is a Google News source and distributes to 15+ social media sites as well for $20-$39/release. Pagerank is 4.
Just tested in August by Forbes
It is NOT a place to get direct press coverage but is good for getting your news into Google and social media at an affordable price.
Just wondering if there are any new or better PR distribution sites that have come along since this article was written. Thanks!
This is a topic that\’s close to my heart… Best wishes! Exactly where are your contact details though?
Thank you Mastergoogle
We use pressport – great little service.
Well detailed post about most popular Press Release sites which will be helpful for all PR submitters and publishers.
Press releases are a great strategy for SEO.
Pressat is a good PR site, not free but middle priced.
Lorrie Walker, do you think that these press release sites are helpful in business promotion and gaining traffic and business? I personally think that now press release sites are not helpful as link-building and marketing trends have changed.
Magnificent post. I actually like what you\’ve acquired here, really like what you are stating and the way in which you say it. You make it enjoyable. I cannot wait to read far more from you. This is actually a tremendous website.
Awesome job Lorrie. The post was really nice and all site are useful for me, I analyze and submit my PR on them and find good results in terms of syndication.
Thanks for sharing Lorrie.
Nice list, many thanks, I find that pointing additional back-links at the release can also help its ranking. Cheers
Having made use of a press release submission to showcase many of my internet sites I always make sure that I utilize the well-known newswires to circulate my press release.
I\’ve utilized the free press release distribution websites but you really do get what you pay for. A press release is too mighty a marketing tool to be skimpy on. A paid service like PR Buzz, SBWire,EmailWire etc. not only give your brand outstanding exposure but will also give strong back links and laser targeted traffic. That is why I continually utilize a press release the moment my website goes live and let it work its magic!
Great article. I’m a total press release noob and your article has enlightened me greatly. We are always coming out with new fax broadcast and fax blast services to offer to the business to business community but have never done press releases before. Now that I have read your fine post we will be doing press releases too. Thank You Very Much!!
I need to make one correction. We allow 4 hyperlinks in the body of the release and one in the contact field, plus one image, and one YouTube vid.
Thank you again!
Ane
Thank you for the mention of our newswire RushPRNews.com. We\’ve been around since 2005 and constantly striving to better our services. We are not a backlink builder but surely can help our clients gaining exposure. Also, our social share package is unique to us.
Thank you again and don\’t hesitate to ask us for our PR coupons!
Cheers!
Nice, thanks for sharing this. Will it really help me to get an increase in the back links to my sites?
Hi,
Are the sites listed above pay for every high-quality press release article?
Thanks for the good information,
I\’ll be looking forward for your reply.
Thank you,
Ronald
Thanks for the great list!
Thanks for the useful PR list.
I am new to PR, just did my site; with this information, it aided me a lot more than finding one by one and testing it. This is indeed an excellent list and very useful. Thanks for the great PR list.
Best Regards,
Jonathan
You notably forgot to mention Send2Press, which was the first newswire to promote SEO with PR (check archive.org); and offers both notable online placement, anchor link support, hand-submit to social media, and exclusive placement in the Neotrope News Network of sites (e.g., CaliforniaNewswire etc.).
I think this is one of the most significant pieces of information for me and I am glad to have read your article. I wanted to remark on some general things, the website style is perfect, and the articles are really great: D. Good job, cheers.
Thanks for the great list! Anyway, we can talk you into updating it for us since its almost been 3 years?
Hi Lorrie, this is one of the more comprehensive list of press release vendors I have seen. Thank you so much for aggregating this list and also including pricing, which seems to be what a lot of other site aggregators are missing. It\’s also important to note some of the larger press release vendors have package deals that can be economical when spread over multiple clients. This is a great deal for marketing agencies similar to ours. -makeitmindful
This is an excellent list. Very useful. Thanks for the great PR list.
Hi, Thanks for the list. I wanted to know if I can submit on all of these websites from India.
Appreciate the work you put in to create this list. But do you use all of these sites? I have an account with PRBuzz, and they do a pretty good job distributing my press releases.
I also see very often in Google SERPS prweb pages, so I guess it is worth using them to publish a PR. It has a nice PR as well, so some link juice will pass to your site.
I never did press release marketing or distribution but now after reading your post and got these awesome sources of press release marketing. I heard a lot about the importance of press release that it is very helpful to enhance our online presence and to get good business.
I actually tried PRBuzz and SBWire for a website I am handling; I noticed that SBWire is much better and their subscriptions are more flexible and affordable. I hope this benefits you. Good luck.
Press releases are very helpful to gain a good number of backlinks. Very useful post, Thanks for sharing with us.
Great list. Maybe you could add Pressdoc, which is gaining in popularity.
This is an excellent list. Another site to add to it is NewVideos.com. You can add your video and tag it with your website for free
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thanks for sharing this 30 press release sites, I really love to visit your site, I personally get a use of it
I every time spent my half an hour to read this webpage\’s content all the time along with a cup of coffee.
Thanks for the great PR list. Very useful.
I have the same question. PR Buzz is on the most major newspaper websites feeds along with BusinessWire, market wire, etc. You just never hear a thing about them. Where do they rank on this list?
Very useful press release Sites
Great list. I am considering OnlinePrNews.com and Pr.com.
Does anyone have an idea about PrBuzz.com though? . It\’s very cheap, but I am not sure if it\’s any good. I would appreciate your feedback.
Thanks.
This is an amazing list. We. Use press releases all of the time to build traffic. Another suggestion is http://www.newvideos.com to get attention to your website.
Thanks for listing the best release sites, it will certainly help me!
Thanks for this Lorrie. Working on improving the company\’s site PR ranking. I hope this contributes to some extent.
Nice list of press release web sites. I don\’t understand what is the difference between an article and press release? This is the same thing for me. Two names for an essay used for advertising purpose.
A list like this is perfect for a online website looking to promote its self
I have looked everywhere for a current list of PR Sites! Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing nice list of PR, however you missed prsync.com.
Thanks for the comprehensive list. Even though it\’s over 2 years old, I\’ve checked and most of these are still the premiere PR sites today. Good work 😉
Great list. However, you missed PR Underground. Our social media press releases appear on Google News, Social networks and over 40 social media sites.
We have a PageRank of 4.
If you could add us to your list it would be wonderful.
Alex Miranda
Editor-in-Chief
PR Underground
Thanks for the information, Alex! We\’ll look into your site.
This is best PR Website which i seen last few days.
Instant Approval.
This can really help to improve SEO for my site. Thanks a lot
I wonder how different press releases work according to the latest Penguin update? Since relevant links are necessary, which one\’s to use?
Thanks for posting this and doing all the research on it. You have some great information here.
I feel the list is very essential for me. Specially the PR of the sites are really alluring and hope I will be benefited by.
Hey Admin
Thanx for the great list. I just want to ask you about Sharewellnewswire. Sharewell Newswire offers paid press release distribution services. It will be a pleasure if you add Our Website in Your database.
Here are the other Details :
Complete name: Sharewell Newswire
Google Pr: 2
Thanx
This can really help to improve SEO for my site. Thanks a lot
It\’s very important to get link from this sites to get a good place in Google search engine, but it more important to understand reaching to a good place in Google search engine is just the first goal, it\’s more important to have a goal and budget plan to save the position,otherwise your competitors will take away your place after one or two month.
What are the best press release distributors for an independent movie opening. We want to get exposure and have the media interview our cast, director, etc.
I have been using press release for SEO and it has really helped, I will ensure to try some of these.
Mark
Really informative stuff. This is what i was looking for my website to promote. I have never thought of these site can be so useful for the ranking. Thanks a lot..
Lovely, been looking for something like this awhile now, always good to see quality information..
Thanks guys..
I\’m surprised PRWeb is not the top site. I hear so much about them it\’s unbelievable. I guess it depends on what you are looking for – ultimately more traffic. I bookmarked this list and will be using it for my clients. Wonderful and thank you.
@Ian
Not Necessarily Ian… We have not updated this list for a little while… But will look into the sites you mentioned. 🙂
Thanks for compiling this info. I see it\’s from a couple of years ago, but it\’s a good place to start. I\’ve been evaluating some services that aren\’t listed here (SbWire and WebWire) but I\’m thinking if they didn\’t make this list then they\’re probably not worth considering huh?
this is better than i thought, great service, hope people take note of the power of this.
This post is holding great and helpful information about enhancing their SEO services by different techniques.This can be used by many high end SEO companies to promote themselves.
There are a lot of these list floating around the \’Net, but this one has a lot of great information tied to each of the sites. Thanks!
This is an excellent list, was looking for something like this on Google, thanks!
Hello. I wanted to give you a note to verbalize my thankfulness. I have been watching your blog posts for a month, and have gained a ton of excellent tips, and have appreciated the way you have built your website\’s posts. I’m going to make my blog, however, I feel it is too general and I need to concentrate more on particular issues.
Thank you for sharing this list. very useful
Best collection of web sites. Very helpful, thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for this very useful information.
Thank you for sharing this list.
thank you for share…
Is the first time that I come to your site…, I just have read vertical…, and I see many interesting things that I want to explore further…!
I will bookmark your site and you can expect me later.
Thanks.
This shows that Ali is a giver!
I believe Pr.com is very good website for this, moreover it is free.
Really sorts out the good from the bad and the expensive. You clearly get what you pay for.
Press releases can be worth it in a lot of cases. My advice is to keep them at a conservative pace. Utilize a good piece when there\’s something newsworthy and maintain credibility.
I was just looking for good press release sites with a high PR rating. This is a great list of them. I have bookmarked this page! Thank you!
Yes, onlineprnews. com is quite good too!
This is a great list of press release distribution companies. I didn’t know there were that many out there.
Very useful list. Thanks for sharing such helpful data.
This is a GREAT Post! Fantastic list of Press Release sites that are \”musts\” in my book – some of these I didn\’t even know about until I saw this post. Thanks for sharing them Ali! (just bookmarked this for future reference :-))
Great collection adding the prices is very useful too. I think Press Releases works amazing for local businesses. They offer great citation and backlinks.
thanks for sharing
Press release exposes companies very quickly.
How do you submit news for earthtimes.org? I just signed up with prlog.org, I guess I will see how that works out. Does anyone know how many different press releases you can distribute through different portals? Or is that duplicate content from different presses?
Press release distribution service is a great way to do this in addition to SEO to generate back links to enable you to warn people about news products, services, goods and websites.
Nice collection and very informative. Thanks.
What a great list! This is very helpful and useful for us. I will share this with my friends too.
Very nice list. business-presse for German Press portals.
@Ryan
Ryan, please fill out our main form at http://www.millionairium.com. Make sure you indicate your budget.
Really Thanks for this great list… it will help me…….
Hi,
I want Blog & Article submission services. Can you please tell me the various packages, what time duration you will take and on which page rank directories you will submit the website link?
Thanks
-Ryan
wow !!!
Thank you for this very useful information. I am following all your blogs and I have been blessed by all the knowledge you’ve shared.
Found some I didn\’t know about.
Prlog.org, the number of URLs they allow depends on the number of characters in your press release. It\’s got to be darn long to get 3.
Press Release website is so important method for promote.
This is a great list of sites press release companies. I didn\’t know there were that many out there. Thank you so much for this information.
Lot of thanks for the list. Useful list i say.
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good list of information. I will share this with my group. Thank\’s a lot.
nice collections of pr services! you can get some good deal on prweb when you subscribe on yearly plans. up to 40% off the regular price
Thank you for this very useful information. I am following all your blogs and I have been blessed by all the knowledge you\’ve shared. Thanks a lot
@Mr. Dinesh Patel I tried to open but it shows Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_handle_upload() in /home/content/b/i/z/bizaxiom/html/press2people/wp-content/themes/iBizPressLightMagazine/functions.php on line 504
What an excellent post! I was looking for something just like this too; I was needing to look into some press releases for my small business, but with good reputation. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Good list. Having looked into PRFire\’s backlinks, it looks like it\’s serviced by a massive network of spam websites. This disappoints me.
Tried something new: full twitter integration, links, and media upload at releasewire, but it is still new. Hopefully will see the support to build its PageRank – it\’s only a month old.
You missed mycompanypr this site offers free b2b press release submission. All posts are reviewed by an editor.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I have been searching the Internet for PR solutions to have a PR written and submitted to Google and ideally costs overview at the same time. I don´t trust organic search so much anymore regarding the offer of services, but reviews like yours are so cool! For me, right now, by far the most trusted source of information. Thanx again:o)
Nice collection of websites. Very useful, thank you for sharing with us.
This is a good list of information. I will share this with my class.
Thank you.
This is a good list. Thank you for spending the time.
I will let my friend read this information because he will be interested. Good information I am excited.
Thanks for the solid information.
Thank you for the great and valuable list. Can you include pr4links in your press release site list? pr4links is one of the good approval PR directories with page rank 3.
Thanks for the information, I will definitely be considering this because SEO is really important!
Excellent website and the blog so for. Now Inshallah I\’ll visit this blog regularly. Tell me what is your theme about its updating. I mean weekly basis?
Thanks Mappear. It depends. But if you subscribe, you\’ll get automatic emails letting you know when it\’s updated.
Nice PR sites list will bookmark it and share to all of my friends.
appreciate you to do this excellent effort keep it up
Great list of sites. I have already started submitting my Press releases to many of these sites. Thanks
I wanted to say thanks for posting this info. I\’m somewhat of a new person to SEO concepts, and basically teach myself everything. I\’ve done 2 press releases so far, but on free sites. I\’m going to try one of the sites you recommend.
i appreciate you to do this excellent effort keep it up
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Excellent list. Very useful. Thanks for the effort.
it is splendid thing to do
Dear Webmasters,
New press release websites have been found out. it\’s totally free. You can submit your latest release on this website. the website is press2people
Thanks
Did you research prbuzz.com? Their $299/year service is tempting but I\’d like to know if it\’s worth the money first.
it is nice
Thank you Mr. ali. Update your data is very useful for me. This list will be very much useful for beginners like me. Thanks again
Would you recommend submitting the same press release to multiple sites or should they be unique?
They should be unique.
Thank you for listing, Small suggestion, If your list is separate for free and low cost, it also useful for us.
Thank you. Very important info.
Thank you very much.
@Kim
Thanks. I\’m going to have my team test this site and will give my feedback.
Hi Mr. Ali
Thanks for your tips and info.
your article is so good!
Hi Ali,
Great post! Thanks for sharing your research.
I am wondering about Webwire. I\’ve seen a few people recommending them. But it seems to cost $20 to get proper results.
If you have an opinion about it, I would love to hear it.
Thanks,
Kim
@Ali Husayni
I\’m certainly not looking to get something for nothing. We\’re both businessmen in the SEO business. Contact me. Let\’s work something out.
Sean
@Sean Burrows
I\’m going to write a full description of our latest strategy on press releases/articles and kind of give-away our secret. 🙂 Stay tuned.
@Ali Husayni
While my company has been using PRWeb for a while I am actually surprised about the comments you made on PRWeb. What do you recommend for a press release strategy? There seem to be some pretty good free sites you have listed. I\’m curious on your thoughts. We have an SEO team that writes and manually distributes articles for our clients and it works really well for building authority for and rankings for targeted keywords. Would you suggest hitting all 20 sites you list for Press Releases?
@Sean Burrows
Thanks Sean… The list was updated and we added PRWeb.com. I removed the note. I have a bigger comment above about PRWeb.com. Nevertheless, it\’s worth having it on the list. Some people may find it useful.
Not to mention, the links you get from the other sites that PRWeb sprays your press release out to. For example, I noticed that earthtimes.org picked up a press release I did last week with PRWeb.com.
Thanks for your article, it is really informative. My only question is, why do you actually list PRWeb.com in the list, and then say at the end of the article that you didn\’t list it. Typo? Error? Or have you updated the article because PRWeb is worth the money now?
goods
relation to the net provider.
I appreciate the work you did on grading these online press release sites. We use many of them also but never took the time to put them in any kind of order depending on their intrinsic value for seo.
Thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense.
I am very interested all the information relation to the net provider.
Wish you all the Best Thanks for the information
Another good place to add your press release in onlineprnews.com Their $12 plan allows you to add 3 anchor text links and I really see the benefit of using this site for my search engine optimization clients press releases.
Here is another good press release site postpressrelease it is instant and your press release is distributed to book marketing sites.
Thanks for such good information. I soon test above your given websites for my new website. Keep posting more on SEO.
Thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense.
Great post!! Thanks for writing such an informative and helpful post!
It\’s a very usefull list for beginners like me in link building campaign.Great job by you Ali.
Thank you.
Good List. Thank you
I\’d be interested to know your reasoning behind not including PRWeb on your list above. Does their site lack anything that is needed for it to be a good posting site?
Not at all. PrWeb was designed for the purpose of SEO and they have many promotional tools, programs. However, the \”link-juice\” coming from their site is less than most of the other sites listed above (and their SEO package is minimum $199).
Let me further explain. SEO companies post press releases on distribution sites to get \”back-links\” to their clients\’ Web sites. Each back-link coming from an authoritative Web site helps further the SEO campaign. However, the more a site links to other sites, each link will have less of a value (link-juice). For example if site A links to site B and that\’s the only site that it links too, it is using all of its \”voting\” power to promote site B. Instead, if it links to site B, C, D, and E, it is dividing its voting power to four and is using each portion for each site.
PRWeb has a Google PR7. Which means the links coming from it ought to have high value. However, it is overused by hundreds of SEO and non-SEO companies on a daily basis. Therefore, the link-juice is reduced to a level that it is now almost worthless. I did some tests with PRWeb during summer of 2009 and in comparison with the other big players, I got almost no results from the posted press releases.
It is interesting to note that a sales rep. and a so called \”SEO expert\” from PRWeb called me a few days later and wanted to see how my experience was with them. I told him that I would never post anything else with their site and explained why. He tried to argue with me and sell me on the high Page Rank they have. Make a long story short, he promised to discuss the issue with his supervisor and get back with me and guess what… he never did.
Your money will go further along with other sites listed here. That\’s all.
I hope I explained this clearly.