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Alexa Internet Rates the PR Network Top in Class.


DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1999--

The PR Network (www.theprnetwork.com) is the leader among Internet portals catering to public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most  and communications professionals, according to according to
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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

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 the latest independent traffic ratings from Alexa Internet Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. , a subsidiary of Amazon.com.

The ratings put The PR Network at the head of a list of four public relations and communications .com sites that Alexa (www.alexa.com) places in the top 100,000 most visited Web sites among the estimated 8 million Web sites worldwide. The other three are PR Web, PR Central and Ragan Communications. PR Web is a press release posting service. The latter two are sites operated by well-known newsletter publishers.

Alexa collects Internet data from the surfing surfing, sport of gliding toward the shore on a breaking wave. Surfers originally used long, cumbersome wooden boards but now ride lightweight synthetic boards that allow a greater degree of maneuverability.  habits of its 3 million registered users who surf the Web with an Alexa browser browser

Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used
 bar that provides statistics about each Web site visited and suggests related sites that may have similar content. User visits to each site are tracked and collected to create the ratings.

"We've found Alexa to be an excellent indicator of relative traffic patterns on many different sites where we have examined their data," said Steve Wynkoop, PR Network president. "We are pleased to be able to report that our intuitive feeling Noun 1. intuitive feeling - an intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music"
feeling

intuition - instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
 that The PR Network is the best of its class is supported by objective, independent data." -0-

Commercial Portals

Web Address                    Name                       Alexa Rating
http://www.theprnetwork.com    The PR Network                  1866
http://www.prweb.com           PR Web                          1798
http://www.prcentral.com/      PRCentral Inside PR Newsletter   931
http://www.ragan.com           Ragan Communications             786
http://www.odwyerpr.com/       O'Dywer's Inside News of PR      197
http://www.prweek.net/         PR Week                          165
http://www.prandmarketing.com/ PR News PR & Marketing Network   125
http://www.prplace.com/        PR Place                         123

Major Associations

Web Address           Name                                Alexa Rating
http://www.ama.org    American Marketing Association           4848
http://www.prsa.org   Public Relations Society of America      1865
http://www.iabc.com   Int'l Assn. of Business Communicators    1205


The PR Network is an affiliation of nearly 10,000 communications experts and companies who use the resources at theprnetwork.com to share information, promote their businesses, host their Web sites, and enhance their professional development and employment opportunities.

The PR Network features the largest dedicated directory/search engine of communications firms on the Internet; an on-line Business-to-Business center to match communications service customers with service providers; news and information features, including a free searchable database Refers to databases on the Web that are searchable by typing in a query. The term is quite redundant because all databases are searchable. In fact, that is one of their major features.  of news about communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D.  and communicators; and a jobs databank that allows employers to post advertising, public relations and marketing communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales  jobs free of charge.
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