How to get a press release on Street Insider

Street Insider is our cheapest named outlet at a $26.10 wholesale, quote-on-request on its own and included in Headline. It arrives through a wire, the page carries the bluntest paid-content disclosure of any outlet we measured, and the links on it were nofollow. One practical catch: its robots.txt permits crawlers, but a bot shield turns automated clients away, so confirming a placement here is a manual check rather than a scripted one.

Street Insider tells the reader what they are looking at in one sentence, above the release:

Paid press release content from GetNews. The StreetInsider.com news staff was not involved in its creation.

That is the most explicit paid-content disclosure of any outlet we examined, and it is worth being clear-eyed about what it does. It removes any chance a reader mistakes your release for coverage. It also names your wire, in the outlet's own furniture, which means a person reading your placement learns which distributor you used.

If your marketing plan involves quietly implying editorial pickup, this outlet closes that door for you. We think that is a point in its favour; an honestly labelled paid page is a durable asset, and an unlabelled one is a liability waiting for someone to notice.

What the page is

The URL pattern is unlike anything else in the catalogue — the wire name as a directory, the headline written out with plus signs, and a numeric id:

streetinsider.com/GetNews/Affordable+Garage+Door+Repairs+of+Indianapolis…/26999434.html

Two things follow. The wire is in the path, so as with Benzinga's id prefix you can read your supply chain off the URL. And the headline is in the path, so anyone who sees the link sees your headline.

Persistence is genuinely good here. A release published 26 February 2026 was still live when we opened it on 28 August — about six months, unprompted. That is among the better durability records we measured, and it is the outlet's real strength.

The neighbourhood is the trade-off. The wire feed we sampled that day carried "Affordable Garage Door Repairs of Indianapolis", "MF Solutions Expands Trusted Residential Garage Door Repair Services in Buffalo Grove IL", and "PhotoGPT Expands AI E-Commerce Visual Platform". A serious B2B announcement lands next to local-SEO filler, on a template that announces it was paid for.

What the link does

Nofollow, on all ten outbound links on the page we read. Every one. A nofollow link passes no ranking credit, which makes this a citation rather than a link — and our catalogue records that as measured, not assumed.

One further detail that gets sold as two things: the release we opened here was the identical release we opened on Barchart the same day, from the same wire submission. Same copy, same date, two URLs. If a vendor's report shows you both and counts them as two placements, that is arithmetically true and commercially misleading, and it is how outlet counts inflate.

Allowed, and unreachable

This is the fact that separates Street Insider from the other blocked outlets in the catalogue. Its robots.txt is permissive: User-agent: * disallows only /captcha.php, /mailme.php, /spam.php, /login.php and /undefined. Under the protocol that file implements, your release path is explicitly allowed.

Then a Cloudflare WAF returns 403 to every HTTP client, stably, on all three passes we ran. The page opens normally in an ordinary browser.

So Street Insider is not AP News, which asked us not to fetch, and not MarketWatch, whose owner prohibits it contractually. Street Insider has given permission and installed a door that will not open. The measured automatic-verification rate is 0.00, and every Street Insider row goes to a person with a browser.

The costly corollary: because a deleted page also answers 403, page removal on this outlet is undetectable by any script. Only a human opening the URL finds out. Anybody promising you automated link-rot monitoring across a catalogue that includes Street Insider has not tested it.

One incidental oddity from the same file, relevant if you care about metrics: User-agent: AhrefsBot gets Disallow: /. The outlet blocks the crawler that builds the database behind the authority score everyone quotes about it. We do not publish a domain rating for any outlet, and this is a decent illustration of why the numbers in circulation deserve less confidence than they get.

What it costs

Street Insider is quote-on-request on its own, and our cheapest named outlet at wholesale. That wholesale is $26.10 — the supplier's street-insider plan lists at $29, bought at the $0.90-a-credit tier of the reseller ladder we are on.

It is included in Headline. It is not in Launch. That package is the only way to buy it off the page — the checkout that sold single outlets is gone, so on its own it is a quote rather than a cart line.

Who should buy it

Buy it if you want a cheap, durable, honestly labelled third-party URL on a finance domain — the "as seen on" line, at the lowest price in the catalogue that still means something. At our lowest wholesale it is the most defensible small placement we carry.

Buy it if disclosure is a feature for you: regulated industries, investor communications, anywhere being caught passing paid placement off as coverage would cost more than the placement.

Do not buy it for SEO. Ten links, ten nofollows.

Do not buy it alongside Barchart expecting two audiences. One wire submission, the same text, two URLs, the same day.

Do not buy it if you need a machine-checkable, monitored URL. Street Insider is one of three outlets where we cannot detect removal automatically, and we would rather sell you something checkable than sell you a monitoring promise this outlet defeats.