Hey there, buying PR can be a decent way to generate backlinks — but let me show what happens to those links after a few months. Sorry to burst your marketing persons bubble but what they are doing is a waste of money and not improving your ranking, it’s little mini hits to your SEO and then these websites will absolutely delete or redirect that SEO power.
They force you to buy more press releases
What’s really sad is the amount of time it takes you to get a PR release processed and released, you could have built your own personal blog on Blogger, Tumblr, Pinterest, Wordpress, and 1000+ more that you can control the power.
These companies thrive off cheating well to do people out of their money. With BS misinformation generated by companies like Moz and all the rest of the top 1% ranking SEO websites. Bunch of SEO SPAM and Link schemes.
This is my ‘not so happy that press releases completely BS face.’
I made the mistake of listening to SEO authority figures and got a bunch of ranking power for a few weeks. That’s when they start deleting them, it’s 100% automated and it’s not like you didn’t sign something that says it will and probably going to happen. But when you’re buying a press release, it’s the last thing you think about. You don’t think about websites deleting URLs because that’s a HUGE negative mark — you never delete URLs, you 301 redirect them.. Which is exactly what these jokers did.
They expect you to go drop the link on a few places, and then they 301 redirect it to a page they want to rank better. It’s clown shoe way to earn revenue but it works and people keep buying it.
I don’t expect this will get much further than 2–3 reads per month. And that’s fine by me. Makes my life in SEO Consulting a lot easier.
Press Releases are a Huge Scam
They give you a link, for a brief amount of time, and then they delete it — when it goes away you go back to them and buy more. Now you understand the process, now you can stop buying PR. It’s worthless.
Oh sorry did you just buy a press release and now googling it, then you found some terrible article written by MOZ that doesn’t explain anything helpful.
Authority figures like Moz are full of it — their blog on how long it takes for PR to effect ranking is BOGUS.
Moz is one of the worst SEO tools I’ve ever used and also the blogs are utterly worthless link spam funnels to generate more revenue on their terrible SEO tool.
Use Ahrefs.com if you’re going to go nuts and spend money on a SEO tool. And don’t try to go build everyones crappy backlink strategy, sorry that’s not going to rank you and it will waste your time. Just like the time you might or did waste on buying a press release.
Below are some links from the Press release I paid for. It’s no surprise they aren’t 404 errors and redirect to a page they want to rank. It’s not a surprise because these companies are there to earn revenue, not help you rank.
Any link that doesn’t process below is not worth your time as a reader, viewer, or digital expert. Nearly 99% of the links generated in our press release are 100% gone. Because they do not earn revenue from helping you out once.
They earn revenue by you coming back after they delete those press releases. It’s more of a notch on your belt that you don’t need.
Are press releases necessary to rank higher?
Not at all, it’s more like learning the hard way that the oven is hot.
Question: Are press releases necessary? Answer: Eventually you will just touch it and burn your hand.
What’s funny is most of the competition in this space do not even know how to check to see if the links are legit or not. Which makes beating everyone in SEO in the Tableau Consulting realm, that much easier.
Remember: these companies are there to earn revenue, not help you rank.
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