Editorial publications
A product story in the daily public edition — on a URL you can open and read.
What is an editorial publication on Lede Press?
An editorial publication on Lede Press is a product story in today's edition at https://ledepress.com. The page names the product, says who it is for, and includes one product link in the article so a reader can explore it. See pricing for how to submit.
What the page contains
The page has a title, a short summary, and a body a person can read. The product is named. The page is filed under one or more categories. The product link uses a phrase that already appears in the body, and it is the only URL in that body. After publish, that URL is the record. On the reciprocal free plan and the $29 package the link is dofollow. On the Nofollow plan it uses rel=nofollow.
Every plan includes that page. The difference is the site credit, the editorial pass, and distribution. The comparison is on pricing.
Why this beats a directory listing
A directory listing stores a logo, a name, and a link. The page exists to hold the link. A reader who lands there has nothing to follow, and an answer engine has no sentence to quote. The link is a row in a catalog.
Lede Press does not publish that kind of page. The product link sits in a sentence about the product. Search crawlers and answer engines both read sentences. A page that explains the product gives them something a logo grid does not.
What SEO and GEO change
On the $29 plan the article is edited for two kinds of reader that are not people. SEO is for search crawlers: a title that names the product, a summary that says what it does, headings that mark the sections, and the product link in a sentence about the product. GEO, generative engine optimization, is for answer engines. The opening states what the product is, who it is for, and where to go, in lines that can be quoted without the system having to invent the answer.
Community coverage does not get that pass. It is still a readable edition page. The extra editing, the pin, IndexNow, and relaunches are what the $29 package adds.
What the Pinterest pin adds
The $29 article is also pinned. Lede Press publishes one Pinterest pin that names the product, describes the page, and links to the article URL. The pin sends a person to the story. The product link stays the anchor inside the article. Community coverage does not include a pin.
The agency price
SEO agencies commonly charge $500 to $1,000 for coverage on a site you do not run. Outreach, writing, and the site the page lives on are bundled into that quote. You often cannot see the page until someone sends a screenshot, and you do not control whether it stays up.
Lede Press is the site. The page is published here, in public, the day it is accepted. See pricing for how to submit.
What the page does not promise
The domain rating of this site is 0. A published story does not promise a Google ranking, a citation from an answer engine, a traffic number, or a movement in that rating. Those systems make that decision. The thing you can verify is the page: the words, the product link, and, on the $29 plan, the pin that points at the page. The disclaimer is the full version of that limit.
Submit a productQuestions
What is an editorial publication?
An editorial publication is a page written about a product that a reader can actually use. On Lede Press that page is part of the daily public edition — title, summary, body, and a product link in the article. The homepage is that day's index. A directory listing is a logo and a link with nothing to read.
How is an edition page different from a directory listing?
A directory listing gives a crawler a name and a URL. An edition page gives sentences: what the product is, who it is for, and a product link in that context. Lede Press publishes the second kind. The homepage is an index of those stories, not a grid of logos.
What does the full editorial package include?
The full editorial and distribution package: a story in today's edition, an article edited for search and answer engines, and a Pinterest pin that links to the page. No site credit required. The product link in the article is dofollow. Community coverage is the edition page without that pass and without the pin, and the reciprocal plan requires a site credit.