Archive for August 19th, 2008
Social Media Marketing Vs Search Engine Optimization
Lot of people use SEO techniques more to bring in traffic to their websites, most webmasters often miss Social Media Marketing the most interesting and effective means of driving quality traffic to their sites. The most common reasons from most the webmasters to rely on SEO than SMM is often is that SMM is too time consuming, difficult to measure and doesn’t deliver targeted traffic.
But the real fact is Social Media Marketing is equally effective like Search Engine Marketing. SMM techniques provides ample results when it is done by the way it should be done:
Time: it can all be relative. You can have someone spend hours answering queries or use the time to create a blog or faq page. Blogs are a valuable part of both search engine marketing and social marketing. Time spent on social sites need not be lengthy. Social marketing doesn’t require long hours, it requires a plan and self control.
Measurable: most business owners have a need to measure and quantify everything. When there is a cost involved, this is understandable, and time is money. The investment in a blog can be measured particularly if the right analytics are used. Those same analytics can tell you how much traffic is coming from social media sites. To say that social marketing cannot be measured is really not true.
Traffic: Search engine marketing can deliver targeted traffic. If you have a good social marketing strategy then the traffic received can be more closely targeted and often with higher conversion rates.
Social marketing outcomes can be better than search engine marketing. There are now web site owners that concentrate more on the social marketing aspect than on their search engine marketing. The truth is, both can be undertaken with great effect.
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