Friendly Competition?

[sellinggalveston]

well thats good to know! What about the cost? I do it for three reasons... 1. the news content letting everyone hopfully know I am the expert in the area 2. the direct traffic of 200-500 visitors it brings 3. the great text back links it offers... Is there any other source of cheaper ditribution of text links in a article setting?

[Dj]

which level of service are you using? I am almost ready to post one but still trying to decide which one to choose.

[ericbramlett]

I just posted mine...DJ, I guess it's just you & me?

[Dj]

here's the results. not that great.


Article Title Views EzinePublisher Emailed Comments Votes Rating Pub. Date

Buying Your First Home: The Time is Right 33 2 0 0 0 12/28/2006

(only 33 views and 2 ezinepublished.)

[ericbramlett]

Well - you did get 2 publisher follows out of only 33 views, which is a pretty good ratio. I would say the problem is the title. Try renaming it and see what happens.

[Dj]

Okay, I renamed it to this:

First Time Homebuyers: Strategies For Success

[ericbramlett]

Cool - let me know how it goes.

[sellinggalveston]

Look at my numbers from PRweb (which I had it picked up by yahoo news and some other news outlets)...


Reads 94,167
This number tells you how many times your press release was accessed from our site and other distribution points where we have the ability to measure traffic. This number does not include the number of journalists who have received your release through email. In addition there are online distribution points that we currently have no ability to track. This number does include RSS measurements.

Estimated Pickup 967
This number estimates the number of times your press release was accessed by a consumer / media person. This does not tell you how many times your story appears on other websites, blogs, or in the media. It simply attempts to estimate interest in your release.

Prints 5
This is the number of times that someone has printed your press release. We measure this by the number of times that the "printer friendly version" link is pressed. In reality, only a small percentage of users actually click this link before printing a release.

Forwards 0 This is the number of times that someone has forwarded your press release to a third party using the link on your press release.

PDF Downloads 20
The number of times your release was downloaded as a PDF document. PDF Downloads may be reflected in "Reads" and "Estimated Pickup" statistics.

[ericbramlett]

That's damn impressive. What's the writing style like for PRWeb? Can we post the same articles there, as well? Have you seen an increase in backlinks since using them?