Entries from December 2008 ↓

Online PR is a great way of spreading the word about your businesses products and services. The following list focuses on ‘technology’ and should come in handy if you’re in that industry.

Online PR List of Sites Reported to Get You into Google News

www.PRLog.org
www.Merinews.com
www.PR-Inside.com
www.IndiaPRWire.com
www.PR.com
www.OpenPR.com
www.ClickPress.com
www.PowerHomeBiz.com
www.24-7pressrelease.com
www.NewsWireToday.com
www.free-press-release-center.info
www.TheOpenPress.com
www.BigNews.biz
www.PR-Canada.net
www.USPRWire.com

Other Online PR Services

www.1888PressRelease.com
www.addpr.com
www.anyrelease.com
www.base.google.com
www.bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm
www.businessportal24.com
www.caymanmama.com
www.clicnews.com
www.digg.com
www.ecommwire.com
www.emeapr.com/en
www.epicpr.com
www.eworldwire.com
www.exactrelease.com
www.fastpitchnetworking.com
www.free-news-release.com
www.freepressindex.com
www.freepressrelease.co.cc
www.free-press-release.info
www.freepressreleases.co.uk
www.freshnews.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.i-newswire.com
www.information-online.com
www.live-pr.com/en
www.malebits.com
www.mediasyndicate.com
www.myfreepr.com
www.nationalprwire.com
www.newsalbum.com
www.newsblaster.com
www.newsreleaser.com
www.only2press.com
www.PageRelease.com
www.postafreepressrelease.com
www.pr2work.com
www.pr9.net
www.prarticle.com
www.prcompass.com
www.press.xtvworld.com
www.pressabout.com
www.pressbooth.org
www.pressbox.com
www.pressexposure.com
www.PressFlow.co.uk
www.pressmediawire.com
www.pressmethod.com
www.press-network.com
www.pressrelease.com.np/submit-release
www.pressrelease001.com
www.pressreleasecirculation.com
www.pressreleaseforum.com
www.pressreleasemonkey.com
www.pressreleasepoint.com
www.pressreleasespider.com
www.prfocus.com
www.prfree.com
www.prfriend.com
www.pr-gb.com
www.prnuke.com
www.prurgent.com
www.pr-usa.net
www.prwindow.com
www.publicrelations.uk.com
www.sanepr.com
www.seenation.com
www.speedypr.com
www.techprspider.com
www.thepublish.com
www.ukprwire.com
www.widespreadpr.com
linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3089542120.html
www.redorbit.com/feedback

3rd Party Sites Where You Can TIP News

www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/
www.dslzoneuk.net
bbs.adslguide.org.uk
www.ispreview.co.uk
www.skyuser.co.uk/forum
btb.lithium.com/btb/board/
products.datamation.com/cgi-bin/ipwget.cgi?cgifunction=addproduct
www.brianmadden.com/members/Brian-Madden/default.aspx
news.thomasnet.com/submitpr.html
www.earthtimes.org/cn/submitpressrelease.php
www.digitaltrends.com/contact/news
www.broadband-finder.co.uk/contact-us.html

Tips for Online PR

Heres my tip tips for submitting online PR.

• Keep it short
• Add your URL into the title, subject and header of the article
• Make the article modular (reduce duplicate content)
• Have a good boilerplate
• Optimise the article title for SEO

That’s all. Enjoy!

Big changes are a foot, I can’t say much more right now however I have been helping Satvinder, an ex-work colleague to get a foot hold in SEO as an aid to his marketing degree.

Part of this has led me to find some interesting articles that will help old-skool SEO-ers and n00bs a like to brush up on some fundamentals, as this industry never stays still (great innit!)

Sample Freelance Contracts

http://www.core77.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/001184.html

Free Business Courses

http://educhoices.org/articles/12_Universities_Offering_Free_Business_Courses_Online.html

How to manage social profiles

http://mashable.com/2008/10/13/how-to-manage-social-profiles/

JQuery for absolute beginners

http://nettuts.com/articles/web-roundups/jquery-for-absolute-beginners-video-series/

How to get clients to say yes

http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/12/18/how-to-get-clients-to-say-yes-to-your-designs/

PPC Primer

http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/11/20/starting-from-scratch-a-paid-search-primer/

The art of the SEO proposal

http://www.seobook.com/art-seo-proposal#32805

Getting started with PHP from scratch

http://nettuts.com/articles/web-roundups/25-resources-to-get-you-started-with-php-from-scratch/

How i became a DIGG power user

http://aszx.net/how-i-became-a-digg-power-user-with-a-75-popular-ratio.html

10 free brand monitoring tools

http://mashable.com/2008/12/24/free-brand-monitoring-tools/

SEOmoz – Low Hanging Fruit

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-christmas-present-for-seos-10-tips-to-pick-the-low-hanging-fruit

A guide to semantic Web Patterns

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_patterns_a_guide_redux.php

And finally, to blog off some tension and give your brain a rest…

Old Skool Games

http://amog.com/tech/gaming/oldschool-videogames/

AdWords Editor v7 has just been released.

Download it here.

This update includes:

• First page bid estimates: AdWords Editor now uses first page bid estimates for your keywords. Minimum cost-per-click (CPC) bids are no longer used.
• Keyword Quality Score: The Keywords tab now displays the Quality Score for your keywords.
• Keyword Opportunities locale: Tailor your keyword suggestions to a particular language and location by changing your Keyword Opportunities locale.
• Campaign targeting in the data view: You can view your targeting settings in the new ‘Language’ and ‘Location’ columns on the Campaigns tab. These columns are hidden by default, but you can select them with the column chooser.
• Send feedback to Google: Help us improve AdWords Editor by enabling usage tracking in your AdWords Editor settings (Tools menu > Settings).

Other updates:

• The ‘Volume’ column on the Keyword expansion tab of the Keyword Opportunities tool now shows absolute numbers (traffic for the last month) instead of scaled values.
• The Keyword Opportunities tool isn’t available for draft accounts.