24 Major News Search Sites in 24 Hours: A Press Release Case Study

Press Release Title

Houston Website Marketing and Video Company Introduces 2009 “Ala Carte”Pricing

Press Release Date

January 13, 2009

Press Release Results

In less than 24 hours the release was published and/ listed on the following major search engines and news search sites:

• • Google
  • Google News
  • Google News UK
  • Google Blogsearch
  • Yahoo Biz
  • Yahoo Search
  • Yahoo News
  • Yahoo Canada
  • Yahoo UK and Ireland
  • Microsoft Live Search
  • Lycos Search
  • Excite UK Search
  • Ask Jeeves New
  • Alta Vista News
  • Alta Vista Searh
  • A9 Search
  • Alexa Search
  • All the Web News
  • All the Web Search
  • Topix Search
  • World News Network Search
  • Calibre
  • Marketwire
  • Africa Tower

After 48 hours upon searching the press release title in Google, we found 410 search results. What that meant was that as of 10:00 am this morning(Thursday, January 15th) 410 websites have picked up, republished, or linked to the release. Among the most notable were Reuters, Business Week, LexisNexis, MSNBC and the online edition of the Houston Chronicle.

To be fair, however, all that glitters is not always gold. Among the 410 several were duplicates. Infopig, for example, came up at the bottom of at least three search results pages. Amazingly enough, Infopig, by the way, is an impressive database of company news. In addition a number of the 410 serps actually turned out to be links to other keyword related sites.

Keyword Search Engine Ranking Analysis 1-15-09

For the key phrase website marketing the press release came up #1 in both Google (probably today only) and Google News.

For the key phrase Houston website marketing DirectoryOne.com ranks as follows:

• • Google: #2
  • Google News: #1
  • Google Blogsearch: #1
  • Yahoo: #13
  • Yahoo News: #1
  • Windows Live (MSN): #9

For the key phrase Houston search engine marketing DirectoryOne.com ranks as follows:

• • Google: #2
  • Google News: #1
  • Google Blogsearch: #3
  • Yahoo: #1
  • Yahoo News: #1
  • Windows Live (MSN): #14

Please note: The above search engine rankings were as of 1-15-09 and may, of course, go up or down at any time.

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