SMM - Social Media Marketing and SEO, Critical To Get Traffic?

Posted by Ty

February 28, 2008

Coming out of this topic today at SMX, it was apparent that SMM, or “Social Media Marketing” is shaping the SEO landscape, and should absolutely become a factor in your marketing plan. Getting your content or newsworthy items in the major social media sites will not only create a buzz about your product or site, but can contribute to valuable links, critical to any site owners link building strategy campaign.

It was mentioned today that in the past year, traffic to social media sites have increased 668%!!! Think about that, 668%!!! How then can you morph this into an SEO program? Well, there were several things, but take note of some points that were of interest:

Subscribe to news/blog feeds in your cyber community, business or field
Set up a feeburner account
Use only one IP address when voting on SMM sites
Take time to jump into Digg, Twitter, Redit, Stumble upon, Technorati, Delicious etc..
Find out best time to post/vote on Digg (there are sites that have determined this already)
Load your blog with wordpress plugins
Create & promote viral content

There is much more on this topic…again, stay tuned!

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