Course notes from Certificate in Online Marketing 2010 programme run by Donegal County Enterprise Board

1. Press Release Sites:
Press Release sites can be viewed on www.business.com. This provides a mix of sites that
charge for distributing press releases and those that are free. Sites include:
 www.PRWeb.com – can create an account for free. (Actual press releases not free)
 www.24-7pressrelease.com – here there are free accounts or paid accounts. This
company has a partnership with PRNewswire and press releases can be accessed by
nearly 80,000 journalists and 4000+ websites such as google news, CBC Marketwatch,
CNN.com, ABC News.
 www.send2press.com – have a number of different paid plans.
 www.eworldwire.com –paid services.
 www.sanepr.com – this allows free submission of press releases online.
 www.massmediadistribution.com – this is a paid service which has 3 main options for
distribution, local area distribution for $199, nationwide distribution for $299 and
worldwide distribution for $399. Press releases are sent to print, broadcast and online
media.
 www.freepressreleases.co.uk – free press releases online.
 www.prfree.com - $30 up, but state they also have a free version.
 http://pressreleasepad.com – free press release posting.
 www.internetnewsbureau.com – sends press releases to more than 16,000 journalist and
business professional subscribers. This is a paid service- $275 for a primary press release
distribution (for first media list and all additional media lists are $80 each.
 http://easypr.marketwire.com – paid service.
 www.pressreleasenetwork.com – this is a paid service with prices ranging from $200 -
$3000 depending on the package. Press releases are broadcast to editors, broadcasters,
press journalists, freelancers and webmasters.
 www.i-newswire.com/ - free submission of press releases for viewing by journalists and
editors and distribute it to partners.
 www.pressbox.co.uk – free submission of press releases – can submit press release in up
to two categories.

2.  http://express-press-release.com/ - this service is free and syndicates press releases across
their PR network of sites (12 listed) and appears on them all for greater visibility. –
American mkt. Paid verson is $29 per press release.
 www.1888pressrelease.com –free press release distribution.
 www.prlog.org/ - free of charge, filtered by catalogue, country, etc.
 www.clickpress.com – free service that distributes to sites such as google news and
topix.net.
 www.free-press-release-center.info – distributes releases and offers a web page with one
keyword link to your site. Pro upgrade will give you 3 links, permanent archiving and
more.
 www.newswiretoday.com – free service.
 www.pr.com – distribute press release and also set up a full company profile.
 www.PR9.net – Free Ad supported press distribution site.
 www.PR-inside.com – European-based free press release distribution site.
 www.PRbuzz.com – $ 99 distribution to search engines, news sites
 www.PRUrgent.com – free press release distribution.
 www.prleap.com – pay per press release distribution to search engines, news wires and
RSS feeds. Fee based bumps get you better placement.
 www.theopenpress.com – free distribution for plain formatted releases, fees for HTML-
coded releases.
 www.fastpressreleaser.com – Free press release service.
 www.pressmethod.com – Free and paid press release service. More services based on
contributions made.
 www.prmedialine.com – Paid service of $127. Distributes to 60000 – 100000 news
contacts, googlenews, yahoo news, etc.
 www.ecommwire.com – free press release service for news about e-Commerce – related
business.
 www.pressreleaseireland.com – Free press release service for Irish companies.

3.  http://www.irishpressreleases.ie/