Social Media and Search Engine Optimization

written by: MediAgility; article published: year 2010, month 05;

In: Root » Internet » Search engines and SEO

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Today increasing number of company marketers want to improve performances with fewer resources and are shifting marketing budgets from traditional to digital tactics like Search Engine Optimization and Social Media. Blend of latest Social Media and Search Engine Optimization tactics can lead to significant benefits for contemporary interactive marketers ranging from better exposure through improved SEO to increased social network discovery.

Social Media and Search Engine Optimization are inextricably linked to each other. Both the processes complement each other. A marketer can not make good use of Search Engine Optimization without Social Media Marketing and he can't succeed in Social Media Marketing campaign without Search Engine Optimization.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) needs Social Media

Relevance is the main principle behind Search Engine Optimization. It comes from content that has the right keywords and concepts. Useful social content (blog, video, images, audio) posted on a website that cannot be discovered via search is a lost opportunity to reach an audience that is looking.

Blogs, Comments, discussion forums and 'Story Submission' kind of options present on a website drives growth. An internet marketing campaign for any website having SEO optimized content can't be successful without presence on popular rich media like blogger, Facebook, scribd, Slideshare etc.

Thus, Search Engine optimized content help in increasing visibility and awareness of website only if it's strategically linked to popular Social Networks which attract humongous size of target audiences.

Social Media Needs SEO

A marketer's success in social media will eventually depend on search rankings in a search tool and the general search results. Marketers can no longer succeed in social media without a boost from the search engines, either. Whether a marketer runs Social Media Marketing campaigns on Social News site, Social Bookmarking site or any other kind of Social Networking website, without Search Engine Optimized Content, he/she can not hit the front page of Social Networks.

Improved ranking through Search Engine Optimization can drive traffic to Social Media.

You can't separate Social Media and Search Engine Optimization

Thus Social Media and Search Engine Optimization are inseparable. Contemporary marketers can't risk slashing one tactics in favour of the other.

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