SEO for a new Social Media website

My company has created a new social media website and they want me to do SEO for it. Its a very big budget project.
Right now i,m totally clueless on what to do.
Till now i did Local SEO and International SEO for products and services and online stores but social media website is totally different.

So what should i do, from where should i start?
After on Page SEO, what Off Resources should i use?
Your help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

 

It's a "big budget project" yet they want someone who is clueless about SEO to do SEO for it...are they idiots?
Tell them to hire someone who knows what they are doing, you will probably do them more harm than good.

 

Find a reputable SEO company which you can find easily on the internet. Let them show you their portfolios so you can view their previous clients and the results. And they should give you the detail work and time schedule to SEO optimization for your company.
If they promised you for quick result then they may apply the black hat SEO which may hurt your company in the future.

 

if you do not have any idea then contact to top seo service provider and choose suitable plan from them. if you spend huge amount on your project then you should be spend small amount in seo.

 

I,m very sorry. Its my mistake.

Yesterday my manager told me that i,m going to do SEO for this website but he did not describe that it will be for some common keywords.
I,m not clueless about SEO i was just worried about the project and clueless of doing SEO for social media website that does not have any keywords and SEO is entirely based on keywords and i have to find the keywords. Of-course my superiors are not foolish and they have their marketing strategy too, but i was not aware of that.

First keyword is the websites name: For example "geezy.com" if someone search for "geezy" then "geezy.com" should appear on top.
Other 2 keywords are common keywords. These keywords are useful for our website and the competition for these keywords is low.

So now my question has changed a bit,

What type of link building strategy should i follow?

Can i do Angela Paul style Link building for this?

For this i think i can't do Local Citations and Directory Submissions.

I think i can work with Guest Posts, Article Submission, web 2.0 and Press Release submission.
Forum posting, blog commenting, Social Bookmarks and Social profile creation.
I know i have to choose good quality websites for this strategy.

So what should i add or less from my link building strategy?

I,m asking this because i never did SEO for social media website and perhaps for 6 to 8 months i,m doing Local SEO and the websites ranked just by doing Local Citations, Directory submissions and web 2.0 and now i just want to know what off page techniques still works or not?

 

What is the website URL?

Without seeing the content and quality of the site, we couldn't possibly tell you where to start.

 

For a Social Media site I would first focus on Social Media sites(FB/Twitter/etc). This is after-all where people are proven to be interested in that niche. Create profiles on SM sites and engage with users.

"geezy.com" Geezy- would be considered a BRAND anchor. Don't get too caught up on SEO or search engines for that matter in the beginning. Social Media sites usually don't need rankings but more of a Brand and social sharing. Think of FB, Twitter, Pinterest, they don't rely on traffic from SEO or search engines. They created a brand and social media spreads the word naturally.
If done correctly social media buzz will out preform SEO any day.

You'll know when you've successfully created a Brand when most of your traffic is direct type-in.

 

I would target the domain name only for a SERIOUS Social Media site... Just like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin... They have their NAME, they don't have keywords!