At first excited for an online marketing tool, I quickly installed.

For registration, you need to create a log-in id. VERY strange is that you cannot just pick a username! It expects at least two numbers?? Also, you internet site must be domain-part only. I guess this is done to prevent problems with already registered user names on the 100 'top' sites... Your password will be visible in the program too.

Now for the fun part :( FOR EVERY 100 "top" sites you need to create an account! The program helps you with this - you don't need to visit all websites.
From News Publisher's website: "Automatically recognizes captcha images.
News Publisher also recognizes captcha images automatically; you do not have to fill captcha images before submission on any of the websites." - this actually works well.

You email address cannot contain "+"-sign.

In short - this program is only for English advertisements. Many of the top-websites are
'just' wordpress blogs and the like. I do not know most of them. Sadly, there is no list available. Only in the program you can see a list of sites - but no way to export this(?).

This program tries to be a 'legit' front-end to a kind of software that is considered bad practice. You can call it 'news' - others will call it spam. And that's what this tool is for: posting spam on 100 'top' websites. In the end, all depends on the value of the 100 "top" websites.

If you have a (small) company and throw one of your first stones in the SEO & Online Marketing pool - go ahead, try this program. The auto-captcha make it very convenient and if you have a good value advertisement already lying around... Go ahead and post your 'spam' - you might end up lucky.

Only too bad the 100 sites will be spammed like crazy today due to today's giveaway ;0

Peace!

Devvie



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devnullius  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+221)

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Today's giveaway is a pretty decent app designed for those who want to increase their online business, by putting their news directly in front of their customers and prospects, and want to have high quality traffic for their websites without paying big bugs for ADS.

However, I doubt that these kind of programs may match the TERM & CONDITIONS of any GAOTD realesed here, such the impossibility to upgrade any GAOTD programs to future versions and the prohibition to use them for commercial purposes).

Besides that, you can also submit your news, press release & business info by using excellent FREE online press release submission services, like:

http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/instant-press-release
http://www.pr9.net/
http://www.prlog.org/
http://pressitt.com/

And to evaluate the real effectiveness of your PRESS RELEASE MARKETING STRATEGY, just use this great FREE TOOL:

http://marketing.grader.com/?s=prg/

Finally to create quick FREE backlinks for your websites from up to 2300 websites (PR1-PR8) that holds authority on Search Engines, so as to get indexed quickly, just use this powerful FREE ONLINE SERVICE:

http://www.bulkping.com/fast-index-free-backlinks/

And/or....
http://www.bulkping.com/free-rss-submit-online/

Enjoy!!

Giovanni  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+106)

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Very probably, one of the most baffling apps ever offered on GAOTD. Points to note if you're thinking of downloading and trying:

1) This isn't a news publisher. It's a Press Release submitter, of which there are countless numbers on the Net, including many that are free.

2) Because 'News Publisher' doesn't publish anything at all it cannot guarantee that anyone else will. And even if some obscure, shoddy, no-cost 'news publishing' site somewhere accepted a submission via this GAOTD app, such a site will not, and cannot, optimise it for search engine ranking. . . so you might just as well have not bothered making any effort in the first place.

3) 'News Publisher' and its quoted Softpedia Editor's 5-star Excellent Award must've come as a surprise to Softpedia. But perhaps this 'News Publisher' app was used by, er, this 'News Publisher' developer to issue news of the award and Softpedia hasn't gotten round to reading it yet.

4) Any software, or any website, that talks of 'Press Releases' -- as this one does -- demonstrates only a comical ignorance of that with which it professes to be familiar. Press Releases were last sent out in the days before TV news. Only idiots and amateurs would ever submit to a TV Newsdesk, editorial copy seemingly intended only for publishing via a printing press. The last employee in my company to use the term 'Press Release' instead of 'News Release' was soon out the door. And that was 14 years ago.

To sum up: News Release submission software is commonplace. That none of it is worth bothering with, free or paid-for, is explained by the fact that media organisations and their staff do not spend their lives, combing through cheap junk websites purporting to "publish" editorial of journalistic interest.

Instead -- though only when days are long, boring, and empty (perhaps twice a year) -- they might refer to the digests from majors like PR Newswire (fee to client: up to $1,100 per news release dissemination) or, in the United Kingdom, PR Web (client fee: up to £200 per News Release.)

At the end of the day, if you've a story to tell, it will sell itself / communicate itself if it's newsworthy enough. Alternatively, you'll use a consultancy that does it for you because its staff are from the very media you're trying to access and they know the editors, news editors and features editors in ways no online website or online submission vehicle can ever hope to emulate. But then, they do charge $200 an hour for their services. . .

Thanks, then, GAOTD for today's offer, but what with its misleading title, mysterious 'excellence' award, and an all-too obvious lack of familiarity with how news is actually disseminated, I can't see why the developer is even bothering to produce this app -- still less why anyone should waste their time with it as a free-today or paid-for tomorrow. . .

MikeR  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+79)

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Wait, so the software is free just like it is on your website, but it requires a monthly subscription to use it effectively (basically, the whole point of using it)?

During the third step (Create Login ID), a window prompt opens which says that I only have the "trial" version of this software, and to create an account, it leads me to your registration page, which offers a monthly subscription for 20 bucks a month...

So what's the deal? If this doesn't come with a subscription, how is this offer any different than the version that cab be downloaded from your website?

Wax  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+50)

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@devnullius:

For what it's worth, the "Top 100 News Websites" list can be found - and copied to the clipboard - by clicking the product link above and scrolling down to the section called "Sample submission reports" (right above the download button on the site).

The sample reports look like images, but they are PDFs. You can select the text and copy it to your clipboard. The reports include the names of all 100 sites.

I've never heard of any of them, either, and I consider myself fairly aware of these things.

I chose not to install or try this software for that reason and because of devnullius' (always) excellent review.

~n

Nebulous  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+33)

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