Some call it social media optimization.
Others refer to it as search marketing optimization. Either way, it is the next
wave of online marketing, the perfect marriage between search engine
optimization (SEO) and social media. As a business in the Internet Age, you
can’t exist without addressing the critical issues of online visibility and
customer interaction. That’s exactly what SMO is designed to do.
In its simplicity, SMO enables you to drive
more traffic, interaction, and conversion while learning about your target
audience and capturing tangible metrics to gauge your social media initiatives.
Consider these benefits:
1.Social SEO - More shared links depicts
you as an authority to search engines and improves SEO. Facebook, Twitter, and
LinkedIn all feature top shared content as "Top News", "Top
Tweet", and "Top Headlines" providing more opportunities to
drive traffic.
2.User Generated Content (UGC) - Content
created and curated by users carries greater influence and travels faster than
doing it on your own. Voice of the customer (VoC) feedback, questions,
testimonials, and insights surface through social interaction, discussion, and
sharing.
3.Social Proof - Lots of comments or
shares proves that content is read- and share-worthy. Featuring these counts
can increase social follows, article click-through rates, shared links, and
inbound links.
4.Social User Experience - Users
appreciate the opportunity to participate in discussions and are generally
willing to share or discuss content they like or [dramatically] dislike. Open
discussion builds a community around the topic.
5.Social Metrics - Comments, subscribes,
and shares are all useful metrics for measuring the quality of blog content and
the success of social media tactics.
Social media is a great way to build brand
awareness and encourage customer engagement and loyalty. Studies show that 65%
of respondents use social media to learn more about products, services,
businesses, and brands. Some 53% compliment brands and 70% read other people’s
experiences. The use of social media in searching for businesses is also on the
rise, growing three times over the past few years.
SMM on the other hand plays more of an
active role in relation to social media by referring to the creation and
distribution of content and other messages through the social web by some form
of viral marketing. This can be anything
from creating compelling content that gets
bookmarked and even hits dig’s homepage to spreading a viral video
by putting it on YouTube and other
social media websites.
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