Press release submission is one of the most effective ways of getting free quality backlinks and promoting your website. By submitting your press releases to press release directories you can increase your site's search rankings, Google PR and get some targeted traffic. A lot of resources can publish your press release from press release directories with links to your site, so it can increase effect even more.
Most of press release directories have high Google PR and good Alexa Rank. Most of these directories place direct links to your site without "nofollow" attribute, so they will pass Page Rank to your site.
How does typical press release look like? You can find lots of quality examples of professionally written press releases if you will check press release directories listed below.
Here is my fresh list of 42 press release directories for free press release submission.
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Here is my list of 176 free directories for submitting your site. This list is just updated. I have added a bunch of free directories with high PR and cleaned up a lot of inappropriate sites. I think most of you are familiar with some of these free directories, but hopefully someone can find this list useful.
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