{"id":531,"date":"2006-03-13T07:50:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T07:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:55:27","slug":"article-directories-free-online-press-releases-work-hand-in-hand-to-generate-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/article-directories-free-online-press-releases-work-hand-in-hand-to-generate-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Article directories, free online press releases work hand in hand to generate publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0just hired someone to start submitting my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many articles<\/a> about free publicity to online article directories, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigcommerce.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArticleSubmitterPro<\/a>, which\u00a0makes the job easy.<\/p>\n<p>The same day my assistant started registering me at various sites,\u00a0Publicity Hound <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipsbooklets.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paulette Ensign<\/a>, a.k.a. The Tips Booklet Queen, sent me this interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070403211527\/http:\/\/www.affiliatetalkforum.com:80\/showthread.php?t=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thread<\/a> at\u00a0a discussion board about the power of submitting online news releases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozemedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phil Wiley<\/a>, who discusses affiliate marketing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231213135609\/https:\/\/www.affiliatetalkforum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Affiliate Talk Forum,<\/a>\u00a0says\u00a0most of us don&#8217;t post enough press releases\u00a0online.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s right, of course. Press releases, particularly those that are optimized for the search engines, can pull traffic to your website the same way articles can. But\u00a0unlike articles, which can become outdated,\u00a0press releases can be timely and piggyback off events in the news.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When you sign up for a subscription to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expertclick.com\/Expert\/JoinAsAnExpert.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expertclick.com<\/a>,\u00a0the website that includes the Yearbook of Experts, a major resource directory used by journalists worldwide,\u00a0you can send 52 news releases a year, without any per-release charges, to tens of thousands of journalists via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.NewsReleasewire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NewsReleaseWire.com<\/a>. Your releases are linked directly to your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expertclick.com\/19-2429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expertclick.com profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, not only are you making it easy for journalists to find you, but you&#8217;re sending dozens of press releases that help the search engines find you, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0just hired someone to start submitting my many articles about free publicity to online article directories, using ArticleSubmitterPro, which\u00a0makes the job easy. The same day my assistant started registering me at various sites,\u00a0Publicity Hound Paulette Ensign, a.k.a. The Tips Booklet Queen, sent me this interesting thread at\u00a0a discussion board about the power of submitting online\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/article-directories-free-online-press-releases-work-hand-in-hand-to-generate-publicity\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":603,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[13,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-press-releases","8":"tag-writing-articles","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43341,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/43341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}