Submit to 5 free PR and press release sites

Free press release distribution sites serve a dual function worth understanding clearly — they provide a real, if modest, distribution channel for genuine business news, and they simultaneously function as an additional citation source, since most such platforms include your business information as part of the release itself, extending your citation footprint incidentally alongside whatever direct distribution value the release provides.

The genuine news requirement here deserves honest attention — a press release manufactured with no real underlying news to report tends to provide limited value even when successfully distributed, since the content itself has little to actually offer anyone who encounters it, while a release built around genuine news — a real milestone, a real launch, a real development — provides authentic value to the distribution alongside its citation benefit.

The legitimacy of the specific platforms chosen matters for whether this citation value is genuinely realized — some free press release distribution services carry real, if modest, domain authority and genuine readership, while others exist primarily as low-value citation farms with little real distribution value beyond the citation itself, making some genuine research into platform legitimacy worthwhile before broad submission.

This mission works best when treated as opportunistic rather than forced — waiting for genuine news worth distributing, rather than manufacturing artificial announcements purely to generate citations, produces both more effective distribution and citations that carry more genuine substance behind them.