PRWeb to Speak at 2009 Spring eCommerce Summit
Sophie Shiatis to Lead Discussion on Using Online News Releases to Cost-Effectively Increase Website Traffic
Lanham, MD (Martindale-Hubbell® Newswire / PRWEB) June 2, 2009 -- PRWeb, the leading online news distribution service, today announced that Sophie Shiatis, vice president of eCommerce for PRWeb will be speaking at the 2009 Spring eCommerce Summit on how to, "Use the News to Drive Website Traffic," on Thursday, June 4th at 10:15 am. The Summit will take place from June 3- 4, 2009 at the Atlanta Airport Marriott.
Shiatis will cover the new rules for online news releases and demonstrate how search engine marketers and online merchants are using online news releases to drive traffic to their website and increase their online visibility. She will also explore how online news releases can tap into the power of search engines through keywords, multimedia, and social media to create inbound links and increase search engine rankings.
Attendees will be able to apply techniques from the session towards their own business to cost effectively create and optimize their news releases in order to improve their search engine rankings, drive more traffic to their website and generate revenue.
PRWeb a pioneer in direct-to-consumer distribution, search engine optimized press releases and multimedia news. News releases are distributed through search engines, RSS feeds and directly to tens of thousands of journalists and editors through e-mail. Through partnerships with prominent news outlets like the Associated Press, Yahoo! News and AOL, PRWeb news releases are available to an online audience of more than 70 million unique visitors in the United States alone.
eCommerce Merchants is a trade association that was founded in 2005 by a group of online retailers who realized that by working together they could enjoy the premium services and discounted pricing normally available to very large companies. The association's popular eCommerce Summits provide an ideal educational platform for our members to excel in an increasingly competitive online environment. For more information or to register for the conference, go to https://www.ecmta.org/events/index.cfm?page=atlanta2009#register.
About PRWeb
PRWeb is recognized as a leading online news and press release distribution service worldwide. Since 1997, PRWeb has been changing the way businesses, marketing departments and public relations firms think about press releases. PRWeb was the first company to develop a distribution strategy around direct-to-consumer communication and to build and offer a search engine optimized platform for press release distribution. PRWeb, located in Ferndale, WA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand public relations management software. For more information please visit www.prweb.com.
About Vocus, Inc.
Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 3,500 organizations worldwide and is available in seven languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, MD with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information please visit www.vocus.com or call 800.345.5572.
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