Research Article

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

Volume: 11 Number: 2 December 1, 2019
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WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY

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 (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 (53%) received a score above this rate.

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 1, 2019

Submission Date

March 20, 2019

Acceptance Date

June 17, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 11 Number: 2

APA
Sezgin, M., & Cesur, A. B. (2019). WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY. International Journal of EBusiness and EGovernment Studies, 11(2), 134-149. https://doi.org/10.34111/ijebeg.20191124
AMA
1.Sezgin M, Cesur AB. WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY. IJEBEG. 2019;11(2):134-149. doi:10.34111/ijebeg.20191124
Chicago
Sezgin, Murat, and Ali Burak Cesur. 2019. “WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY”. International Journal of EBusiness and EGovernment Studies 11 (2): 134-49. https://doi.org/10.34111/ijebeg.20191124.
EndNote
Sezgin M, Cesur AB (December 1, 2019) WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY. International Journal of eBusiness and eGovernment Studies 11 2 134–149.
IEEE
[1]M. Sezgin and A. B. Cesur, “WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY”, IJEBEG, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 134–149, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.34111/ijebeg.20191124.
ISNAD
Sezgin, Murat - Cesur, Ali Burak. “WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY”. International Journal of eBusiness and eGovernment Studies 11/2 (December 1, 2019): 134-149. https://doi.org/10.34111/ijebeg.20191124.
JAMA
1.Sezgin M, Cesur AB. WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY. IJEBEG. 2019;11:134–149.
MLA
Sezgin, Murat, and Ali Burak Cesur. “WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY”. International Journal of EBusiness and EGovernment Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, Dec. 2019, pp. 134-49, doi:10.34111/ijebeg.20191124.
Vancouver
1.Murat Sezgin, Ali Burak Cesur. WEBSITE USAGE IN DIGITAL PUBLIC RELATIONS – AN ANALYSIS OF IT COMPANIES IN TURKEY. IJEBEG. 2019 Dec. 1;11(2):134-49. doi:10.34111/ijebeg.20191124

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