What is SMO ?
Social Media Optimization may be as important as Search Engine Optimization for content distribution, but far different rules apply.
Implement changes to optimize a site so that it is more easily linked to, more highly visible in social media searches on custom search engines (such as Twiter), and more frequently included in relevant posts on blogs, Forum.
There are two categories of SMO methods:
(a) Social media features added to the content itself, including: RSS feeds, social news and sharing buttons, user rating and polling tools, and incorporating third-party community functionalities like images and videos
(b) Promotional activities in social media aside from the content being promoted, including: blogging, commenting on other blogs, participating in discussion groups, and posting status updates on social networking profiles
Social media optimization is related to search engine marketing, but differs in several ways, primarily the focus on driving traffic from sources other than search engines, though improved search ranking is also a benefit of successful SMO.
Social media optimization is in many ways connected as a technique to viral marketing where word of mouth is created not through friends or family but through the use of networking in social bookmarking, video and photo sharing websites. In a similar way the engagement with blogs achieves the same by sharing content through the use of RSS in the blogosphere and special blog search engines.
Social Media optimization is considered an integral part of an online reputation management (ORM) or Search Engine Reputation Management (SERM) strategy for organizations or individuals who care about their online presence.
Social Media Optimisation (SMO), is not limited to marketing and brand building. Increasingly smart businesses are integrating social media participation as part of their knowledge management strategy (ie. product/service development, recruiting, employee engagement and turnover, brand building, customer satisfaction and relations, business development and more).
Social media optimization is a great technique by which you can get more traffic and business for the website. If your website has huge traffic then you can earn by Google absence.
SMO include lot of activities like:
blog commenting
Forum commenting
classified ads
Social bookmarking
Social Networking
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