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Is Social Promotion Better Than SEO?

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by rowanman28, Sep 17, 2011.

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    I just realized, I've been working for hours a day to try to compete for page one of Google for social promotion, when it only has 1,000 exact match searches a month worldwide.

    That's thirty three searches a day, and even if I was first on the first page, I wouldn't get all of those clicks.

    I got two hundred and sixty unique views today on my site, most of which I got from Twitter. Am I just wasting my time doing SEO for my site, or should I keep making back links, and increasing my Twitter followers as well?

    I know the answer, probably both SEO and social promotion, but when one seems to work so much better than the other, why shouldn't I focus on the method that works?
     
    rowanman28, Sep 17, 2011 IP
  2. chinasa

    chinasa Peon

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    SEO includes using social networks to promote your site. There are also other techniques that can be used promote sites. You can't compare the both.
     
    chinasa, Sep 17, 2011 IP
  3. bharatmax

    bharatmax Member

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    Yes.you can not compare.You can not depend completely on social websites.you get instant traffic only with them.Do some SEO regularly whatever time you want to spend on it.
     
    bharatmax, Sep 17, 2011 IP
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    xenon121 Active Member

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    i have recently saw a statics in this forum that most people in web now spend their time on facebook and twitter. so it is good to promote your newly created site there. but do not forget the basic seo strategies. basic seo's are the foundation of your site's visibility. so you should keep your eyes open for new seo tactics.
     
    xenon121, Sep 18, 2011 IP
  5. Chetan Panwar

    Chetan Panwar Peon

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    Basic SEO is always better, social marketing is only valid for a few days. Just move a few days back, everyone used to be on orkut and hi5 and now no one cares about. Same can happen with facebook and twitter, maybe google+ will top over it or any other brand will but social media marketing is not a sutainable way of marketing but SEO is.
     
    Chetan Panwar, Sep 18, 2011 IP
  6. rowanman28

    rowanman28 Peon

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    True, but what should I do next then? I've already written almost fifty unique articles as back links to my home page. Should I make back links to all the other pages as well? Im almost on the first page for get Facebook page likes. Any good tips to efficiently make quality back links?
     
    rowanman28, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    itrush07 Well-Known Member

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    Interesting, love to hear new methods also especially when it comes to seo..
     
    itrush07, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    0ccul7 Active Member

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    Social networks are a part of the SEO, but a lot of people ignore it as it needs more time. Spend some time on it and you will see the results ;)
     
    0ccul7, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    kchinenye Greenhorn

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    I agree with the last poster. There are two different things, but one depends on the other.
     
    kchinenye, Sep 18, 2011 IP
  10. dheeraj.prakash1

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    Social Promotion is best for Seo. It's an part of SEO.
     
    dheeraj.prakash1, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    amasran Peon

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    Although some Internet marketers want to exclude facebook. I didn't get much traffic from there. But I get them from twitter and Google
     
    amasran, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    I didn't get much traffic from twitter marketing
     
    Compuzone, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    #13
    The collaboration of the two could be better...
     
    DIGITALCHAMELEON, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    In my opinion, both are essential. Social Promotion is a part of SEO. Especially traffic boosts up in social promotion, however to achieve SERP SEO is important.
     
    acams, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    SEO & SMO are two different things, they are quite similar but different in some aspects. Facebook and twitter are the modes through which traffic on the site increase at a rapid way.

    So, I agree with you and people should take use of SMO.
     
    futured, Sep 19, 2011 IP
  16. manasha

    manasha Greenhorn

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    yes it is correct and have been experiencing in my real business.
     
    manasha, Sep 19, 2011 IP
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    Social media is not promotion than seo.
     
    Aneelbuzz, Sep 20, 2011 IP
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    i think, better SEO because which SEO you can get organic visitor and make your site loved by search engine
     
    gaulia93, Sep 20, 2011 IP
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    SEO I think is better. When you get high on the organic search results you don't have to put as much time into it and you can focus more on social media.
     
    klacc, Sep 20, 2011 IP
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    Both, social promotion is a form of SEO in any quality campaign. Don't you know that a lot of the "social promotion" is resulting in quality backlinks and other helpful SEO signals? Use all strategies possible to deliver more traffic and success for your website.
     
    GrowBank, Sep 20, 2011 IP