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[opcis]

I recently read an an article entitled,

"How It's Actually Possible To Rank Better Than #1 in Google And Yahoo Overnight!"

The article started off by explaining that for many key phrases Google news is placed above the main results and PPC ads.

You can see an example by searching for politics in Google.

The article went to talk about a success story of a webmaster who was able to get thousands of links and viewers to his site by being in the news results for the most searched word on the internet at the time.

According to the article he was able to achieve that news position in Google by writing a Press Release.

I have a few questions about the whole thing:
1. What do you think about this? Is this a good way to be displayed in Google for a competitive key phrase you have no chance for and can't afford the cost per click to be on that first page.
2. When is Google News displayed in the SERP's? I've seen where there were no news results in the SERP's even when there are many results if you search for that key phrase at news.google.com.
3. How do you get in Google News. prWeb.com states that by submitting your press release to them you will be listed in Google news. Is that the best way?

[lorien1973]

$80 to PRweb guarantees you into yahoo news and google news and some others as well.

I've submitted press releases a few times, and even though I've put keywords into the title of the release, if I search those terms, they do not show up on the "news" insert in either yahoo or google. I think they filter out press releases from the news bits just in case this would start to happen. Imagine the PR spam that it would inspire.

If you do submit your PR for $80, you can be found via keyword searches at yahoo and google for at least a few days, though and they are picked up by the PR scrapers as well, and they are indexed for a long time, so it can have some benefit.