Submit Free Press Release

If you were registered and logged in, you would see the free press release submission form, plus your profile management options, on this page. Use the boxes to the right to register and login to Your-Story.org.

If you would like to add up to three weblinks to your press release, add up to 10 images, or a video, you can do so right away, by submitting a Premium Release – no registration required.

Why Submit a Free Press Release?

Submitting a free press release to Your Story is the beginning – and can be the end – of your company’s digital media outreach.

Submitting a press release to Your Story will see:

Your press release enter all the top search engines’ organic results pages – usually within seconds of publication – with high organic placement;
Google News may pick up your press release – click here to see Your Story press releases currently in Google News;
Your press release will be included in the contextual news links provided by Moreover (who handle related links sections on major websites, such as the BBC website)
Journalists, bloggers and opinion formers who are subscribed to Your Story by RSS and email will receive a notification of your press release, as soon as it is published;
Investors or potential investors will receive your company news through Google News (and, often, Google Finance if a stock code is included in your release)

How to Send Free Press Releases to Your Story?

All you have to do to send a free press release to Your Story is to:

Register with Your Story;
Login (using the username and password box found on any page);
Reload this page, and you’ll see the Free Press Release submission form – its really that simple!

Where to Submit Your Free Press Release

Premium (Paid) Press Releases

Because a lot of users wanted advanced features, which use up more of our resources, and site moderators time, Your Story offers a Premium Press Release service. Premium Press Releases benefit from the same great list of benefits as the free press releases – for example, they go out in Google News, Moreover, Organic Search Engines, multiple RSS feeds and social media streams and more – but you are also allowed to place up to three web links; up to 10 images; and one embedded video into your release, in order to offer more rich content to the multimedia journalist, blogger or investor of 2011.

Premium Releases may also be embargoed for a specific time and date in the future – allowing you to effectively plan your media campaign – as well as coming to the top of the site moderation queue (as you are paying for the additional moderation time required to check web links, image placement and any video added).

Click here to submit a Premium Press Release.

Why Do Your Story Offer So Much For Free?

We are often asked why we offer so much for free. It is quite simple. Digital publication and distribution of your press releases does not cost much per unit – unlike the old days, when sending a press release involved expensive printing, posting, telephoning and man hours, donkey work and effort. However, despite the falling costs, many services still expect you to pay upwards of $300 USD for digital distribution of your company press releases.

We realised that press release distribution is only useful if it is done in a location that is aimed at journalists and bloggers. This means a service which collects and publishes only the best press releases – the ones where they can write actual news stories from the press releases they discover.

That’s why we aimed Your Story at the audience, not the issuer of the press release. Without audience, your press release submission will go nowhere. Most other press release services are designed to catch – and charge – the issuer of press releases. Your Story is different. It is not called “submityourfreepressreleasehere dot com (sic)” for a reason – it is about finding a story. Your Story is aimed at journalists. Which is why we moderate – and remove – most junk and spam press release submissions, to keep it audience friendly.

If you submit and have published a free press release on Your Story you are adding value for the fast-growing numbers of users who regularly scan their industry areas and topics for new press releases. Add value for those users, and you add value for Your Story. As a payback, you get super-targeted, great readership, and global propagation for your press release. For free.

Submit Your Free Press Release Here – and Nowhere Else

We know that most businesses don’t want to spend days and days submitting their press release to a myriad of difficult to differentiate free and paid press release services. Yet many issuers of press releases go for a scattergun approach, and send the same press release to every single site out there – including article directories, and online “hub” websites and wikis.

With a Your Story free press release account, those days are over.

You can submit your free press release to Your Story and nowhere else. You will be contacted within the next day with a confirmation once your press release is published (by email) with a link to your press release. You should then check Google, Yahoo and Bing by searching for the title of your release a few minutes after publication, and see how well your Your Story press release is already doing.

Within around 15 minutes, you should search on Google News too. You’ll more than likely find your press release, courtesy of Your Story right there, too.

Then, you’ll be able to drop a link to your Your Story press release into your company Facebook and Twitter pages – and your personal social media pages too – perhaps even using the in-release, one-click social media buttons.

For the technically savvy, you’ll even be able to use Your Story as an online Media Room which can be linked to directly from your company website(s) and blog(s) by grabbing the RSS feed of either your author page, or a tag page from Your Story – simply visit any Your Story URL and append “/feed/” to the end of the address to access the feed – which can be used to publish a constantly updating list of your latest press releases in third party websites.

All of this is available out-of-the-box, for free. You just have to submit your press release by registering, logging in, and visiting this page, then let Your Story and its built in distribution systems do the hard work for you – you can then get on with the important business of fielding journalist enquiries, instead of visiting any other press release website!