What types of tools or resources do you use in your online business to drive traffic to your site? What kinds of readers from what sort of backgrounds frequent your site? What are they looking for? How can you increase your traffic visibility on your site? Press releases can be an awesome tool if used effectively and correctly in generating traffic to your site. All you need is simply to know how to present what readers and surfers are looking for in a way that makes them want to read and share press releases that are distributed by your company.
Press releases are a frequently used tool that is marketed by upstarts and established companies alike. They are a huge resource in helping companies establish themselves in their particular genre and creating brand presence for their product or service. When used properly, press releases can be a powerful tool in assisting companies in driving traffic to their sites. Since most sites rely heavily on web traffic to create revenue for their sites, a well-written, well-thought out and well-assembled press release can be magnetic for a business. If it is put together in an effective manner, the traffic to your site can become repetitive, in other words, drawing the same people over and over and adding new surfers and readers on a frequent basis. Without frequent traffic, sites will not thrive in highly competitive situations. Simply put, drawing traffic is must for success in any online business.
Sites that depend on traffic for their revenue are always in need of fresh, original content that keeps readers coming back for new content, updates and developments. Site owners and webmasters work vigorously in ensuring that their sites are interesting and engaging for their readers and subscribers. They want to provide something that readers can use and that is beneficial for their message as well. Their goal is simply to drive organic traffic to their site and provide a platform with which to share their message, product and their services. By using press releases as a means of disseminating any critical information to their readers, sites can be highly successful in generating traffic and garnering a following.
Press releases are essentially announcements and can be effectively used as such when they are positioned and focused to the target audiences. Press releases can help in generating traffic to your site by making them frequently distributed, highly interesting, tightly focused on a particular topic and has the capacity to reach a wide audience.
Most companies today have either websites or blogs that keep their customers informed and up-to-date on company events. Whether the updates to these communication tools are frequent or infrequent, customers often rely on them to find the information that they need about the company’s developments.
Having a web site presence is the goal of most companies of any size. Being able to direct your customers to where you are on the World Wide Web and sharing company information with them is important in establishing your brand all while generating site traffic.
With so much information available on press releases, companies can get a little confused on what information they should include when writing their own. When it comes to what makes a press release successful startups can learn a lot by reviewing and implementing the strategies that work so well for large corporations.
Audience: The press release is all about the content! The longer the press release the less interest it holds to the journalist and the less likely they are to publish it. Though your press release should always look to target your audience, press release writers must understand that the journalist is part of the audience. For example, you would not submit a press release for a cooking company to an industry magazine focused on tires and you would not contact the food editor for a press release about fuel.
Released too late for effectiveness: When it comes to writing your press release, the news most be timely. Information should be written and distributed as soon as possible to make sure it still is relevant to current conditions. For example, distributing a press release two months after winning an industry reward would be ineffective; at this point, the information no longer has any value.
Released too late for a response: The same standard applies when releasing information about an upcoming event sponsored by your business; writing the press release and attempting to distributed the day before an event is too occur doesn't provide enough time for a journalist to contact your PR person, verify the information, or write an article about it.
Contact information: The contact person on the press release has an important role to play; if a key representative of your business is listed, he or she should be available for contact if additional information is needed. If a primary contact is unavailable and the deadline is near, you could miss free publicity and miss the chance of having your press release published.
Focus: Great press releases say everything important in 300 to 500 words, companies that typically write longer press releases than this, can benefit from better focusing their press releases on one specific subject or topic about their business. For example when writing a press release to promote your new product, the focus should not be diverted by discussing other products or services offered by your business.
Quotes: Often press releases contain quotes from key members of a business or even satisfied customers, anyone featured in a press release should be named and information should be given on how they represent your business.
Invert information: The standard rule of writing a press release is opening with the most important details and ending with the least important. This style of writing is called an inverted pyramid. Some companies have misunderstood the purpose of an inverted pyramid. An inverted pyramid does not mean the information in the last paragraph or sentence is uninteresting. Keep in mind that the ending should include the lease relevant information but written in a way to engage.
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