Comments on: Is Social Media Optimisation Replacing SEO

By: Peter Damien Ryan

Peter Damien Ryan — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:32:27 +0000

SMO or SEO – obviously both! Like some commenters here, I don’t see a lot if traffic coming from my Twitter or blogs, but that could also mean I use them incorrectly or don’t know how to look at tracking etc.

I wonder if people actually use Twitter to look for information – I know I still Google for it and cannot see how I could get better results from Twitter or FB for that matter, although they are great for getting a message out there.

By: Jill Brown

Jill Brown — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:59:47 +0000

Hi Sean,
I’m learning by your teaching in this article that social media is a great tool for networking and marketing. I’m not sure if social media will replace SEO techniques or become more popular in the future. I have experienced Twitter and Facebook to be excellent for social networking.

I’m inclined to agree with Jazz and say that SEO is easier to apply for optimisation. That is by having a set of rules to follow and that can product positive results.

Looking forward to the next article.

By: Renee

Renee — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:58:08 +0000

I am still challenged to keep all the balls up in the air (writing posts with good content and SEO, being active on Social Media etc) but I find that I do get quite a number of visitors back from Social Media I utilize. So it is definitely something I will keep at.
what I find rather difficult especially with Twitter is that the more people you follow, the harder it is to actually follow. At least if you intend to really pay attention. I have given up on reading all the messages and only look occasionally and whatever is there at that moment gets my attention. Assuming most other people do the same it seems that timing of my tweets etc becomes rather important. Something I still need to work out and where utilizing tools like Social Omph come into play.

By: Sean Rasmussen

Sean Rasmussen — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:36:53 +0000

The more you get involved in social media, the more traffic you will see to your sites. Like anything, the more you become involved, the more you will get out of it

By: Jazz Salinger

Jazz Salinger — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:07:16 +0000

Hi Sean,

I don’t see a great deal of traffic from social media. SEO is definitely easier for me to do. I think this is because with SEO there are a basic set of rules that you apply.

Social media is all about making content easy to share. I think the content has to really get the interest of the people to make it spread quickly. It’s usually funny and interesting. I think if you have the ability to be creative you can definitely get a lot of traffic to your site.