Post Press Releases for Free

July 29, 2009 | Posted by Carma | Filed Under Learning Center, seo

Want or need to post your press release for free? Check out these press release submission sites. By the way, online releases can be used for more than just getting press, they can be great for your SEO, as well.

Note: Some of these sites offer paid services, as well. The chart below makes note of that.

Press Release Submission Site Login Required HTML Anchor Tags Images Accepted Approval Time Paid Submission Option
pressreleasepoint.com Yes Yes No 1 Day Yes
pressabout.com Yes Yes No 1 Day No
free-press-release-center.info Yes No No 1 To 7 Days Yes
pr9.net Yes No No No
prlog.org Yes No Yes 1 Day No
pressreleaseforum.com Yes Yes No 1 Day No
express-press-release.com No No No 1-3 days Yes
postafreepressrelease.com No No No 1 Day No
pressexposure.com No Yes No 1 To 2 Days No
speedypr.com Yes Yes No 1 Day No
sbwire.com Yes No No 7-14 Days Yes
seenation.com Yes Yes No 1 Day No
myfreepr.com Yes Yes Yes 1 To 7 Days No
exactrelease.com Yes No No 1 To 2 Days No
sanepr.com Yes Yes No 1 Day No
prwindow.com Yes No No 1 Day No
mediasyndicate.com Yes Yes No 1 To 2 Days Yes
webnewswire.com Yes Yes No No
businessportal24.com No No Yes 1 Day No
press.xtvworld.com Yes Yes No 1 To 7 Days No
thepublish.com No Yes No No
newsblaster.com No Yes No 1 Day No
usprwire.com Yes Yes No Yes
i-newswire.com No No No 1 To 7 Days Yes
pressmethod.com Yes No No Yes
1888pressrelease.com Yes No No 1 Day Yes
clickpress.com Yes Yes No Yes
prnuke.com Yes Yes No 1 To 7 Days No
24-7pressrelease.com Yes No No 1 Day Yes
pressreleasemonkey.com Yes No No Yes
pressreleasespider.com No Yes No 1 To 7 Days No
malebits.com Yes No No 1 Day Yes
clicnews.com Yes Yes No 30 Days No
pressreleasecirculation.com No Yes No 1 Day No
pr2work.com Yes Yes No 1 To 7 Days No
prfocus.com No No No 1 To 7 Days No
epicpr.com Yes No No 30 Days Yes
press-network.com No No No 1 Day Yes
pressbox.com No Yes No 1 To 7 Days No
freepressreleases.co.uk Yes Yes No 1 To 7 Days Yes
bignews.biz Yes No Yes 1 Day No
ideamarketers.com Yes Yes No 1 Day Yes
pr-usa.net No No No 1 Day No
newsalbum.com No No No 1 Day No
pr-gb.com Yes No No 1 Day Yes
digg.com Yes Yes Yes 1 Day No
base.google.com Yes Yes No 1 Day No
prfriend.com Yes Yes No 1 To 7 Days No
theopenpress.com Yes Yes No 1 Day Yes
newsreleaser.com No Yes No 1 Day No
press-library.com No No No No
live-pr.com/en Yes No Yes 1 Day No
prarticle.com Yes Yes No 1 Day No
information-online.com Yes Yes Yes 1 Day No
openpr.com No No Yes 1 Day No
pr.com Yes No No 1 Day Yes

 

Have any of these sites changed their “free” policy to a a paid service? Please let me know. I’ll update this list as soon as I can.


Wrapping Words Around an Image In WordPress

July 10, 2009 | Posted by Carma | Filed Under How To, Learning Center, WordPress, images

Something I’ve noticed in the newer versions of Wordpress has really been giving my less tech savvy clients a hard time: wrapping words around an image.

There are two basic ways images are handled by WordPress:

  1. Through the theme’s CSS file
  2. Individually in each post or page

Since I tend to use images quite frequently and put them in different places, I usually remove most the the formatting from the CSS style sheet and place images by hand in the posts and pages. But if you’re using the Visual Mode rather than the HTML Mode, you might find that your images are not doing what you want them to do. Here is how to fix it.

First, you will need to use HTML Mode for some of this, so you’re going to have to get comfortable with HTML. But don’t be afraid, you’ll only need to look for specific code that I’m going to show you.

Step One: Upload/Insert your image by clicking on this image:

uploadinsert

Step Two: Select the image file you want to upload and up load it.

selectfiles

Step Three: Set your preferences for that image.

preferences

Most of the time, you won’t touch the Title, Caption and Description areas, so I won’t talk about them here. But I will go over the rest.

Link URL:

This lets you make the image a link or not.

  • If you want the image to be a live link to the image file, click on the “File URL” button and it will automatically fill in that field.
  • If you want the image to be a life link to the post, click on the “Post URL” button.
  • If you don’t want the image to be a link at all, click on the “None” button.
  • If you want the image to link to some other URL you have in mind, you can either delete the URL that is there or click the “None” button, then type in your chosen URL.

Most of the time, I just click the None button. WordPress remembers the last preferences you set, so you won’t have to do that again.

Alignment:

This aligns the image in relation to the spot you are inserting it.

  • None = no alignment. The image will be level with where you placed it.
  • Left = aligns the image to the left. Words will wrap around on the right.
  • Center = aligns the image in the center with words wrapping to the left and right.
  • Right = aligns the image to the right. Words will wrap around on the left.

Size:
When WordPress uploads an image, it automatically creates two or more versions at different sizes. You can define the parameters for Thumbnail, Medium and Large under Settings/Media. The Thumbnail you can see in the upper left of the window next to the date. The full size is the actual size of the file you uploaded.

Step Four: Insert the image.

Click on the “Insert into Post” button.

insert

Step Five: Fix the word wrapping

Once you’ve inserted an image, it might look something like this in Visual Mode:

visualmode

But look like this when you preview the post:

actualpost

Why is that?

For some reason, WordPress is using a “class” to wrap the image and the browser just doesn’t recognize it. So you have to go into the code and fix it.

When you look at the code for an image you’ll see something like this:

origcode

You want to replace the “offending” code, highlighted below,

offendingcode

with code that browsers will understand, as illustrated here:

thefix

In this example, I aligned the image to the right. To align it to the left, just change “right” to “left.”

To center an image, the best way is to put the image code in between center alignment div tags like so:

aligncenter

WARNING: When you go back into Visual Mode, it may erase some of the work you did in HTML Mode. So I recommend HTML Mode being your last stop. Save your post from there, otherwise, you’ll have to go back and fix everything again.


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