“I posted my press release to 5 different press release sites and it only shows up once in Google News. What am I doing wrong?” I get questions about this problem all the time. First off make sure that the press release distribution sites you are submitting to, feed their content to http://news.google.com . To check this, read the instructions here: http://www.bignews.biz/blog/?p=6 this page also includes a list of sites that feed content to Google news.

Once you are sure that the sites you are submitting to do feed their content to Google news, go to http://news.google.com and do a search for a phrase or group of keywords that can only be found in your press release. Once your release comes up in the search results, click on the text link in the upper right corner that says “Sort by date with duplicates included” the search results will then list all of the press release and news sites that published your release.