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ABOUT FREE PRESS RELEASES & REJECTED PRESS RELEASES



FREE PRESS RELEASE GUIDELINES

24-7 Press Release provides a free press release service to help companies bring awareness to their products or services. Our service has been an important and invaluable resource to start-up companies and small organizations since 2004. Although we are pleased to continue this free press release service, we absorb the extra server and bandwidth cost associated with running it and provide very limited email support in answering questions regarding rejected releases. We ask you to respect and comply with our guidelines.

Submission Guidelines:
  • Submit a maximum of 1 free press release per release day.
  • Organizations and individuals who provide promotional services for clients (PR firms, marketing firms, SEO companies, publicists, etc.) should contact us to make special arrangements.
  • Do not resubmit the identical release already approved in the system. Write a new release!
  • Read below - Reasons why your press release maybe rejected
HOW DO I KNOW MY PRESS IS REJECTED?
  • Your release will no longer appear in the system OR
  • You may receive a general rejection email
Due to the large volume of free submissions, we do not provide you a specific explanation on why your release is rejected.

REASONS WHY YOUR PRESS RELEASE MAYBE REJECTED

In order to improve the quality of our site, 24-7PressRelease.com has applied a more stringent review during the press release approval process. This process is to increase the quality of news content on our site, in turn providing journalists & researchers an optimal resource for business research while maintaining a higher quality of news to our news feed partners. Criteria that our editors look at during the review process include, but are not limited to the following.
  • Reading like a press release should. Does the press release read like a press release should? This includes the proper use of attribution and third party. Articles, that are submitted as a press release will be rejected. There are plenty of article related sites on the Internet to submit these to. Unfortunately, we are not an article depository.

  • Contact information. When journalists and researchers look for a story, they are looking for credible sources. When was the last time you flipped through the Yellow Pages, to find no phone number or address of the company you were looking up? 24-7 Press Release does not display your email address on the press release. The email is only displayed when the “Email us Here” option is clicked from the press release. This is to limit spammers and scrapers from pulling our publishers email addresses. If we do not find complete credible contact information, your press release will not be published. As a note of interest, your email address does matter.

  • Your email address matters. How often have you looked at a Yahoo, GMAIL or Hotmail email address, used for business use, and wondered to yourself, “why does this person not have an email address @ their own company name?.” I.e. john.doe@widgetsandthings.com instead of john.doe@hotmail.com. Or better explained, how professional would it be if someone from Sony gave you a business card of john.doh@hotmail.com instead of john.doe@sony.com? Your press release will not be rejected due to the use of a free email account service, but we do recommend, for credibility, use of a proper email with your own domain name.

  • Company name included in headline. Your company name should always be placed in the headline of your press release to lend credibility. When journalists & researchers are combing the web, the press releases less likely to be read or even clicked on are those that do not have the company name in the press release. Press releases with poor headlines will be rejected.

  • Content within your press release. Your press release should read like a press release and not appear as blatant Advertising. This includes being informative, informing your readers of a new product, service, event, etc. This is not to be confused with sounding like an advertisement. “But Now!”, “FREE!” “MAKE MONEY QUICK!”, these are all red flags that are sure to have your press release rejected.

  • Punctuation & Capitals. Over use of punctuation and capitals is prohibited. This is due to the information coming across as “spammy” and unprofessional. If your headline contains all capitals, it will be rejected.

  • Duplicate Content and Submissions. Avoid resubmitting the identical press release already approved in the system. You can write a similar release but use a unique headline. If your press release has been rejected, DO NOT resubmit it over and over again. This will just annoy our editors and result in your account being permanently banned.

  • Poor Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation. With paid releases of $49 or more, our editors will take the time to correct minor grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors during the review process. Unfortunately we do not have the resources to apply this to free press releases and will reject press releases containing grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.

  • Keyword Spamming. This is a common technique used to gain advantage on the Search Engines. Your press release will be rejected due to blatently excessive keywords or phrases. This applies to the Headline, Summary, and Body of the press release.

  • HTML & Formatting Codes. No HTML formatting is allowed in the press release. Formatting codes are allowed for paid releases of $49 or more. Free press releases containing HTML code this will be rejected.

  • Character Codes. If you cut and paste your release from a WORD document, it may contain special character codes not compatible with our system. Ensure you take the time to preview and correct any character code errors.

  • Legal Reference. Your press release makes reference to legal content which could result in liability. Only Mass Media Distribution press releases that have fulfilled the required paperwork and faxed back to us may distribute press releases making legal/ lawsuit references.

  • Illegal, Pornographic, Escort related websites. Those types of content will be rejected.

  • Creating multiple accounts and submitting similar theme content under different aliases. This type of abuse will not be tolerated and will result in all accounts being banned and flagged.

  • Poor/Limited Newsworthiness. Our editors will reject press releases containing poor or limited news value. By switching to a paid press release option, you increase your chances for inclusion.

If you would like to increase the chances of your press release being accepted, please see our PR Resources area for some tips and pointers on writing a proper press release. 24-7PressRelease.com reserves the right to select and publish press releases suitable for distribution. Please keep in mind that we do track IP addresses, and any attempt to use falsified information, including false phone number, address or name may result in your account being permanently banned and flagged.