Comments on: Social Media Optimization is retarded – It’s nothing beyond numbered lists and fancy titles

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:12:04 +0000

Guys,

I think you both are talking the same stuff. Rishi being an SEO himself spoke in a relatively technical aspect while Techblisshonline made it easier to understand in laymans language.

I’ll use Rishis language to a client while TBO’s to my blogger friend.

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By: Techblissonline Dot Com

Techblissonline Dot Com — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:22:40 +0000

Saptarishi, to me everything done towards getting links online is for the sole purpose of getting more authority and consequent traffic.SMO links, if good, are going to help your optimization for SERPs too.So I am not treating the process of getting links via SMO as a new service offering…as there is nothing extra you do to optimize your site for the social media.You create good content that is optimized for SE as well and the social media are going to accept it, if they like the content.

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By: Saptarshi

Saptarshi — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:45:48 +0000

Techblissonline, there is some miscommunication between you and Ashwin. While I absolutely agree to Ashwin’s comment about linkability being the key to social media marketing, it is also true that Social media Optimization exists! When you craft your article to increase its linkability- what are you doing ? You are basically optimizing it to make it suitable for social media. Also, when you talk about SMO principles are same as SEO link building staff – it is not absolutely correct – in SEO link building is done with the sole purpose of SERPs, whereas in SMO, linkability is increased to gain more links and increase share of voice and presence. This links in most cases would also drive traffic. SEO just gets benefitted by a well concerted SMO campaign.

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By: Techblissonline Dot Com

Techblissonline Dot Com — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:24:57 +0000

what do you mean when you say linkability? How is it different from making your site good for getting more backlinks? How do you say that getting more links is nothing to do with SEO? Doesn’t more links (good links)transform to good authority and better rankings in search engines? If not,why?

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By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:54:50 +0000

@TechBliss,

He talks about linkability – Nothing to do with SEO.

Secondly, all that crappy crap he talks WILL NOT get you any results what so over.

There is nothing called “optimizing” social media.

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By: Techblissonline Dot Com

Techblissonline Dot Com — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:53:16 +0000

Ashwin, Just read Rohit Bhargava’s 5 rules for SMO…It is just 5 different ways of saying the same thing – “increase incoming links to your site/blog”.This is nothing but the core of SEO…

probably he is trying a O-Reilly…

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By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:15:26 +0000

Well, social media optimization does bring in a lot of hype because of all the spikes in traffic.

I would agree that boastful 101 or 100 listed or numbered posts get a lot of thumbs up in StumbleUpon and Digg. Of course, the traffic produced by social media can be said closed to low or none quality.

However, think of this, what if you have some true readers which are really seeking information (like me )? You will gain some loyal readers from this process.

The surface might be all the spikes and server crashes (for some) but the consistent traffic, before and after the spike will have its difference.

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By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:12:05 +0000

Mani,

Social Media Optimization does not exist!

You really dont have to optimize a website to make it social media friendly and that is a fact.

Social Media Marketing on the other hand my friend, is not truck loads of dog poo and can really get you the traffic and branding you need!

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