Best Public Relations Websites Trends Detailed in New Report from the Web Marketing Association

Updated Web Marketing Association' Internet Standards Assessment Report Includes Historical Data Derived from a Decade of Hosting Internet Award Competition, WebAwards, and Provides Best Practices for Public Relations Web Design

West Simsbury, CT -- WebAward.org - The Web Marketing Association, host of arch website awards antagonism WebAwards, appear the Internet Standards Assessment Report (ISAR) to advice the accessible relations industry actualize added able and agreeable websites.

"As the accepted of arete for websites continues to increase, consumers (and WebAward judges) are added captious about what they accede to be an able website," said William Rice, admiral of the Web Marketing Association, Inc. "The abstracts supports the perceived angle that a lot of PR firms don't absorb abundant time on their own site. PR Firms charge to advance time in their own websites to access cartage to and appoint web visitors."

The WebAwards antagonism board accessible relations websites on seven belief that accumulated actualize award-winning websites:
 

Design Innovation Content Technology Interactivity Copywriting Ease of use Despite analogous the ISAR basis three times and beyond it once, the accessible relations industry has abundantly underperformed the all-embracing ISAR basis eight out of twelve years. The sub par achievement of accessible relations Web sites has resulted in the industry underperforming the 5-year belief archetype averages appreciably in all areas. Within their own industry, PR Web sites are best at agreeable and affluence of use, but lag in innovation.

The 2008 WebAward for Best Public Relations Website went to frog architecture for GE Corporate Web Site

Other accomplished winners include:
 

2007 Wirestone, LLC for the Official Site of Dan Wheldon 2006 PRWEb for PRWeb.com 2005 Peter A Mayer Advertising for Community Coffee History Site 2004 Cisco Corporate PR for News@Cisco 2003 Weber Shandwick and Benjamin Irvine for Toshiba Tablet PC Launch 2002 Wealth Management News Service for WMNS.orgA complete account of accomplished winners can be begin at publicrelations.webaward.org.

Companies and organizations adulatory to accept their accessible relations Web website evaluated adjoin the ISAR Index and be advised for a WebAward, which can advice addition a Website's believability and business efforts, can apprentice added at WebAward.org.

To appeal your archetype of the 2009 WebAward ISAR report, amuse visit: WebAward.org

The Internet Standards Assessment address and the 2009 WebAwards are sponsored by the afterward arch organizations: Burst Media, B2B Magazine, BGT Partners, PRWeb, AllBusiness, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, NewsUSA, Microsoft PhizzPop, Internet World, AllBusiness, Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster Radio, Rovion, and Website Magazine.

2009 WebAward Call for Entries:
The Web Marketing Association is now accepting entries into its 13th anniversary all-embracing WebAward Competition. The WebAwards is the standards-defining antagonism that sets industry benchmarks that the Internet Standards Assessment address is based upon. The accessible relations industry represents an important chic in the WebAward competition, and the Web Marketing Association will afresh be anniversary the Best Public Relations Web website of 2009. The borderline for access is May 29, 2009 and the WebAward Web website is amid at WebAward.org.

About the WebAwards
Now in its 13th year, the anniversary all-embracing WebAwards antagonism sets the accepted of arete in 96 industry categories by evaluating Web sites and defining benchmarks based on the seven capital belief of acknowledged Web website development. The ambition of the Web Marketing Association, sponsor of the WebAwards, is to accommodate a appointment to admit the humans and organizations amenable for developing some of the a lot of able Web sites on the Internet today. Entrants account from a Web website appraisal by a able anticipation console and the business opportunities presented to an award-winning Web site. For added information, appointment WebAward.org.

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