PR Web Offers More Spam Per Release!

*searches for his trackback ping script getting ready to fire it up...*

Ahha looks like they moderate trackbacks or something...

In the meantime: notice the links do not have "nofollow" slapped on them? ;-)

I admit it. I use PRWeb as a link building tool. What's wrong with that?

Gotta love how quickly traditional marketing and publicity can be ruined as soon as people feel the need to do things only for the search engines without real people's best interests kept in mind.

Sad sad sad state of affairs.

Let's take bets on what the next traditional marketing thing the spammers will ruin?

ruined how Jill ?

if we didnt have spammers, what would we talk about? and if we didnt talk we wouldnt have friends, and if we didnt have friends we'd be depressed, and if we were depressed we might be suicidal....

spammers, i thank you for giving us life.

You're welcome ;-)

LOL...well, when ya put it that way!

You're kidding of course? Do you really need it spelled out? (I'm quite sure I have an article on this subject somewhere that I can dig up if you really are asking.)

No please humor me. I don't think anything has been ruined, so I am obviously missing something about your statement.

Sure, WP.

To start with, press releases have been around for ages as a way of getting out new and important information about companies. Online press releases are of course newer, but quickly became a faster and preferred method for reporters to receive news and information for them to write about.

Once SEOs decided they could get links and keyword rich releases posted online, the online newswires became flooded with useless crap (just like Google is now flooded with useless crap because of some SEOs).

One can only imagine that the journalists themselves are paying much less attention to them as they are...well...useless crap.

I mean do we really care that Company X launched new (keyword keyword) product that does (keyword rich link) using (keyword keyword).

PR people = spammers with a list of people they bought lunch for. I think it's sad when a technique gets abused (or even worse...outed)...but definitely not because I feel bad for the PR people:)

Do we really care about 99.9% of new products or services anyhow? As a consumer you NEED to have ADD to spot and not respond to spam anymore anyhow. I don't feel bad for the PR people...I feel bad for consumers who haven't picked up on how to evaluate spam and credibility yet:)

Thank you.

I assert that PRWeb is the gonzo version of press releases. Higher quality press release agencies are out there and are listened too.

So PRWeb's respectibility may be less but to assert all online press release agencies are I think goes to far.

Well I think that is the natural course of all information systems...that they get spammed out and the performance bar to organize information and to be heard above the noise keeps going up.

That is nothing new.

And who says one person's press release is more legitimate than others? Who has the divine right to be heard from their press releases?

I think I have only ever submitted 3-4 press releases for my crap and have got calls from a search engineer and picked up secondary links from some of them.

In fact at least 2 of my releases were garbage because I wrote one before I knew how to write one and another one announced I had an affiliate program - that affiliate program announcement was obviously pure trash. Funnily enough a legit site picked up my affiliate program announcement and then started publishing some of my other articles.

I sorta think it is the luck of the draw with press releases, but if you want it to be more than that take some time and directly contact the person you want to cover you or your business.

Anywhere there is underpriced attention there is a call for spam. As a marketer there is no point in letting human nature to market let you down.

I blogged about that PRWEB Press release the day it came out and got a trackback - so it works. (I'm TB #2) I've done a couple more since then on other press releases I've blogged about too.

"Ahha looks like they moderate trackbacks or something". Don't think so. All mine have shown up instantly - the second I hit publish. But they were real blog posts and relevant.

"notice the links do not have "nofollow" slapped on them? ;-)" Good to know. I meant to check but forgot to. I was doing it for traffic and got some - not doing it for links. ;-)

I often blog about legitimate affiliate industry news that comes out in press releases - so it's nice to get a link back and a little residual traffic back when I spread a company's PR and help get them additional targeted exposure for their news release.

Sure it will be abused by spammers what ad medium isn't. But like the "kid" says - spammers give us something to talk about.

...love that a-b-c humor! :)

Sad to see another tool getting more press about it's exploitability.

I agree Jill - free or low cost press releases are flooding the system but surely that means there is greater potential for services which gives 'less noise more signal'.

This will no doubt cost more (as PRWEB and other agencies do now) but it's far from being the end of the medium.

I blogged about that PRWEB Press release the day it came out and got a trackback - so it works. (I'm TB #2) I've done a couple more since then on other press releases I've blogged about too.

Linda - yea I noticed you listed there, your good luck, or rather you being one of the first ones to blog about it... I was a bit too late - and lo and behold, I see my link there... not. Must be a limited number of trackbacks they allow on each press release - or maybe it's managed individually for each press release - don't know yet.

All mine have shown up instantly - the second I hit publish. But they were real blog posts and relevant.

Well so was mine, but it still didn't show up. I haven't really tried faking trackback pings so far - that was only a joke - but of course if they run any sort of check on those pings this won't work - only real blog posts.

And who says one person's press release is more legitimate than others? Who has the divine right to be heard from their press releases?

Weren't 'traditional' PR people, in the days before the Web, 'spamming' news agencies with tons of releases about non-newsworthy products anyway?

...And sometimes newspapers would pick em up because they needed cheap content to fill a couple 400 word blocks for the next day's paper.

'Traditional' PR ain't that much different than spammerific PRweb PR.