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Social Media Marketing
November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Social Networking, Social Media Marketing, by any other name … it is all the same.
Today, as with any other day on the internet … things have changed. Today we are finding that social networking is one of the more important parts of SEO and for a very basic reason … it works.
Well, actually, probably, a few reasons … but two stand out.
One, Google likes social media sites as much as they like blogs. This is important. Second, postings add inbound links to your site.
The bottom line remains inbound links. When will the morning come that we wake up and find that inbounds don’t count anymore? Probably never, but never is one of those words we don’t like to use.
Bookmarking on social media sites like Delicious, Digg etc., is good business. It’s not huge in SEO but it is good business. What I like about this is not only the convenience of having my own bookmarks wherever I travel, but I’m also providing this information for anyone else as well … who happens to type keywords relevant to my sites into the bookmarking sites.
I wonder when we’ll wake up and find that Googlin’ has been replaced by simple searches on bookmarking sites. I see today that review sites are getting a huge increase in traffic. This is good qualified traffic. You may find yourself going to a movie review site to get other people’s opinion before heading out to the local one-too-many cine. Why are you doing this? Probably, as myself, because I get other people’s opinion of the movie. This is real … this isn’t a site meeting Google’s algorithm so they get listed well, this is live human beings providing their opinions. How do you get better information than that?
Well, the future is laid out … we only need to live it.