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Old 06-16-2008
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Hi all!

I did a search and did not find this tool mentioned on the forums, but I thought it was neat and wanted to share!

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This is great, Brianna. I've been thinking more and more about getting started on my press release soon. Hubspot is a great place for information and tools. Has anyone tried this tool with their press release?
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I tried it with mine. I got a 57 out of 100 at first but when I realized it was checking for the ### marks and the "About the Company" section, which I didn't include when I pasted it, I redid and got a whopping 62.

Apparently it took points off for not having links with anchored text but I didn't know if those worked when you submit press releases or not.
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Hubspot is one of my favourite places. They archive their webinars and they had a fantastic webinar on Press Releases a few months ago. You can download all of their webinars including the PR here

They teach you the tricks of writing a PR to gain inbound traffic to your site.
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wow, this is a really cool tool, thanks for sharing. although I can't seem to get greater then a 70 :-(
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Hi

Awesome!! Where has that been all my life? That is just priceless. Since I do press releases for clients too, I can use this as a selling tool. Hopefully at least.

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Hi

Okay that is better than peanut butter. What I found I can do is take the release, make the changes and increase my stats. One thing that they said too was my website links were too low on the page. I never really thought about that before.

A 70 is pretty good. You should be proud of that one.

Thanks so much! I'm going to use this from now on.

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That is a pretty neat site! I just created my first client press release and I got a 91 out of 100 so I guess I did pretty good for my first write up for a client. Will have to insert mine soon and see what I get for my own press release!!

This site is really cool because they also have a website grader!!

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This will definitely come in handy! I have googled tons of how to's and tips for press releases, but never a grader! Thanks for sharing it Brianne.
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Wow - I'm glad this thread was brought back up. I've been writing press releases for a client, and this will be very nice to have.
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