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Yep, probably so...I didn't think about it from that perspective. Gah. Next time, I guess.
We're hoping to do more of these in the coming year with the various insights we generate, I am hoping for one every three or four weeks. But, it's a project in and of itself...
These people I work with: freaking amazing.
Would you like a mega MSM email list to send this PR to?
I shall not turn it down P.E. theoildrum@gmail.com.
Cheers!
The way we (GPUS) do press releases is to try to have most of the main points as quotes. Sometimes these will be candidates for office to get them some exposure, but mostly this is to make it easy for the press to make a story out of the release. They don't need to do any interviews, just check with the press contact if there are any questions. There are usually three of four poeple quoted. It works sometimes. Might want to give it a try. Here is a recent example.
Chris
Thanks, that's a great tip.
The PRWeb guidelines suggests that most of the main points be in quotes also, because of a feature PRWeb has that uses the quotes.
What PRweb does, if this feature is used, is show a box near the top of the post with one or another of the statements in quotes in large type. Over time, the statement in quotes is changed, to be one of the other statements in quotes. The intent is to make the press release look "new", as far as search engines are concerned. Thus the January 4 release date for search engines would change, so it would stay up longer.
We are fairly close in this press release to using quotes. We use "According to TheOilDrum.com" several times. The sentence after these statements are generally important points in the story. If we had put quotes around the sentences, this feature could have been used. I am fairly sure we could change the web version of the post at this time, to add the refreshing feature. It would take the post off line for a short time while the editors reviewed our changes, but it could be done.
I would suggest that this site stops sutomatically making 'no follow' default - most of us here use nom de plumes anyway, so it would hardly be intrusive, and would improve the ratings of this site on Google no end
"No follow" is not for privacy. It's to discourage spam in the comments. Most of the spam we get is not actually trying to sell us anything. It's "link spam" - trying to get higher in the Google ratings.
Like this:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2143/161352
How about using one of those things where you have to read weird letters and numbers to prevent spam?
It's just seems to be making life difficult in attaining more recognition for the subjects raised here not to get the highest possible Google ratings.
That prevents folks who are blind from posting comments. I myself know a blind person who uses this site.
I don't think it would work. These aren't spambots. They're human beings, cutting and pasting those blocks of links.
Links in the comments don't increase Google ratings for us. They increase Google ratings for the sites linked to (if there's no "no follow" tag). So there's an incentive for people to post links to their sites in our comments, but no benefit for us to allow it. Google ratings-wise, anyway.