17 likes since 2009?

12 tweets?

It seems like not even the owners family and staff could be bothered.

Where is the evidednece here that news releases work?

No one is claiming that they never ever work. so even if you could produse a few good examples, it is hardly evidecne, but It is my opinion you are better placeing the content on your own site.

Ask yourself, why would someone read you press release?

Will they gain you links?

will they drive traffic?

My guess is that no one will read them, and the answer to the other 2 questions follows.

i would put my time and effort into somthing else

i would suggest that you are more than likly not flaged, but the links have been found and discounted.

Yes you may still rank for long tails as there is less competition.

If you have been punkished for un-natural links, you more then likly get a message in GWMT

The following will work for both slash and no slash,

<rule name="Test" stopprocessing="true"><match url="^example_folder"><action type="Redirect" url="/newfolder"></action></match></rule>

if not sure where to place it, see link in last post, bottom of page

i would first decide if you want a slash or not. i prefer not as when people type urls they rarly add a slash on the end.

see this page will tell you how to remove all slashes and then your redirects should work

http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-issues-involving-the-trailing-slash

SEo Executive is correct. uyou have some flooding protection on

i doubt very much if you are a target for DOS attacks so get ried of it

this is how crawlers see your code

Forbidden access

(Flooding)

Yes it means the crawler has no permissions to crawl the page.

Can we get the domain so we can check, use a tiny url if you dont want it shown