Optimal number of links in press release in PrWeb.com?

I'm considering buying a 200$ press release on PrWeb.com, main reason being getting an authority link. I'm wondering what's an optimum number of links I could put in press release to get the max benefit?
If it helps, my website is www.savings-secrets.com

Thanks!

I herd somewhere rule of thumb for PR Web, one link per 100 words of text.

Paying 200 bucks does NOT garner you an authority link.

Actually let me rephrase that. You DO get a link on a great press related web site. You DO NOT get residual benefit of a good link over the long run.

Why? Do this to find out: day 1, check your press release. The instant you publish you're probably already on page 2. After a week you're news piece is on page 64. After two weeks page 300. Basically you're buried immediately.

So don't get the PR for the sake of a link, that's the wrong use of this tool.

djstreet -

I have used some online press releases. There is an SEO bump for a few weeks. Beyond that it is difficult to tell the lingering benefit. I could say that six months later I still show links from the PR website.

Additionally if you actually go to one of these online PR sites you may do a search on keywords for your press release. So while, as you say you will be #300 for new listings quite quickly, your press release may still rank highly on keyword searches within the website.

The $200 question. It could be worth it if the 1 month bump (with a high profile online PR website) could bring in the extra business that could justify it. As in a lot of marketing it is trial and error. At least you could get a press release that you would be able to place on your own website to expand your content.

djstreet - let me rephrase the $200 question: where do you see SEO value in spending $200?

GAustralia.

My friend paid for PR Web and we later found his PR in AOL and other websites (he didn't submit it there). He gave up on that website and did not build any links afterwords, so it's going to be interesting to see if PRweb submission alone was enough to get higher pagerank.

Is it worth $200? I would like to know too

djstreet: actually even 150th page on PRweb has PR5.

Djstreet

Good point about PR of linking pages. I tried to check the PR of the page of the press release yet my checker says that the URL is too long! So yes we may assume that the PR of this page is way lower than the PR of the site. Perhaps part of the ranking boost is a link from the recent PR additions pages. The most recent PRs are on the home page. Page rank checkers did not want to give me a rank for the pages a few pages back.

For PR web, six months later, my backlink checker shows a link from the pages: prweb.com and emediawire.com : both link to the same press release on prweb.

To help the whole link equation it is good to link to the press release from your webpage. Also, placing the release on your webpage provides more content for Google search results.

So you don't like spending $200 on a press release for SEO, then where do you see value in spending $200 for SEO?

GAustralia.

GAustralia: I checked PR of 150th page and it is PR5. I use NoDoFollow addon for Firefox.

Here is what I experienced. I bought this $200 from PRweb.com. Very soon after that I saw my page rank drop from 4 to 3. A couple of weeks later I checked on Google Webmaster Central (you need to verify your site) and none of the PRweb.com links were showing in the too. However, I was still number one for my main keyword, so the PR drop did not affect my positioning (and I checked 5 weeks later as well - no change so far). AND I got one sale from this release. Someone actually called me. So overall, I think it is worth it - in my experience. I also heard from others (but have not yet done it myself) that if you blast those releases for a few months in a row, it does, eventually, create good visibility for you. Hope this helps.

Thank you, annatchn. Very interesting info.

More thoughts -

The PR is a good way to bring some links to internal pages.

I did a PR Web release in mid Nov. For that one I did not see the immediate bump in my page ranking as with past releases.

What it did bring, missed by this forum, is lots of other webpages posting the release and these being picked up in search. Still over 3 months later I see two of these on page 2 for a search:

t m c n e t . com and d o c k stoc .com. PR Web also seems to be cosy with earthtimes.org

GAustralia

Prweb is the one of the great press release directory and It costs are little high basic service also starts from $80 It have only one link on the body

One link per 100 words as guideline. My last one had 5 links.