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The “All New” PitchEngine

By on November 1, 2011 in Online Distribution

PitchEngine has been on my radar for a while now, primarily because A. For a while they were actively positioning against PRWeb in a variety of discussions and B. because they seemed to have done a good job achieving brand recognition among a certain segment of communications professionals, primarily by positioning themselves as a tool [...]

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What small businesses should know about local search

By on July 14, 2010 in Marketing, Online Distribution, Search Engines

When Google decided to start showing local business results on Page 1, it basically meant that A. small businesses who were already thinking about marketing through organic search needed to start thinking more carefully about the impact of local results and B. that small businesses who weren’t using search as a marketing tactic had better [...]

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News in Blended Search

By on March 29, 2010 in Online Distribution, Search Engines

For those of you interested in how news appears in blended search results, I’ve put some thoughts together in a guest post for Lee Odden on the Online Marketing Blog.

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Hao-Odnla

By on March 25, 2010 in Online Distribution

It is not unusual for us at PRWeb to have our content scraped and syndicated on various Web sites.  In fact, a big part of what we do involves providing relevant slices of our content to reputable publishers so they may syndicate it. Recently it has come to our attention that a Web site called [...]

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Review of OnlyWire

By on January 12, 2010 in Online Distribution, Social Media

I toyed around with OnlyWire for a while today and wanted to share some initial observations but first a little bit of foreplay. Bookmarking is a vestige of the Mosaic browser (circa 1993) and has subsequently emerged into a persistent feature of Web browsers.  Bookmarks aren’t rocket science: There are a lot of pages on [...]

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Getting Indexed in Google News

By on December 30, 2009 in Online Distribution, Search Engines

I chatted with CT Moore from NVI Interactive Strategy at Pubcon a few months back about several topics including some of the things we’ve seen from Google News in the past year or so. Note to self: Remember to take off that ridiculously large event badge next time.

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Google News Search

By on August 19, 2009 in Online Distribution, Search Engines

Of the panels I sat through at the recent Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in San Jose, the most relevant to the space in which I work was the panel on News Search.  Although the panel is a consistent presence at the SES events, this particular panel had a Google representative, Maile Ohye, talk about [...]

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Interview on Social Media Portal

By on July 15, 2009 in Online Distribution, Public Relations, Social Media

I recently did an e-mail based Q&A with Social Media Portal, which focused primarily on my experiences working in product management to drive PRWeb.  Here is an excerpt: Social Media Portal (SMP): What is your full job title and role at PRWeb.com? Jiyan Wei (JW): I’m the Director of Product Management – I drive product [...]

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Defining Online Distribution

By on June 1, 2009 in Online Distribution

The concept of online distribution is a broad categorization that encompasses a variety of different models for getting information from one place to another.  Deconstructing the concept of online distribution is vital to picking an online distribution service that makes sense so here is a general overview of the different models of online distribution: Direct [...]

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Free Press Release Services

By on May 26, 2009 in Applications, Online Distribution

I was recently browsing through Twitter when I stumbled upon a posting that took me aback – someone had posted an RFP to build a mirror of PRWeb for a budget of $300. It was comical in a sense but also interesting in that it served a hyperbolic function: it symbolized the process through which [...]

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