WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY

Authors : Murat SEZGİN, Ali Burak CESUR

Pages : 134-149

Doi:10.34111/ijebeg.20191124

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Publication Date : 2019-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Digital public relations, which can be defined as the use of Internet-enabled tools such as social media management, social bookmarking and sharing, search engine optimization insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(SEO);, creating and distributing online press releases, blogs, forums, news sites, corporate web pages, etc. are an indispensable field for companies and brands. In this research, it is aimed to analyze the content of corporate web sites used as a digital public relations tool. In this study, we take \`Turkey’s Top 500 IT Companies\` survey and analysed the content of newly established companies. Our study reveals that new all IT companies have a website. In technical side, they provide most of the criterias but they are unsufficient in content side. In total, almost half of the companies are under 50% coverage rate. When all of the categories were calculated, 51.8% of the criteria were met and 9 companies insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(53%); received a score above this rate.
Keywords : digital public relations, corporate web site