SEO or SEM or SMO

[johnsander1]

Which one is much better today to market your product or can attract more visitors/traffic i am very much confused about it.

[Alex Peltonen]

Hello, I think that for traffic to your website, Search engine optimization is the best practice. I hope this can help you understand better the differences between SEO, SEM and SMO.
SEO Basics: The Differences Between SEM, SMO, SMM, and SEO

[businessbanking]

I think SEO is the best to get more traffic as compared to SEM and SMO. As SEM is a paid one and SMO gives less traffic.

[paulrigby]

Originally Posted by johnsander1

Which one is much better today to market your product or can attract more visitors/traffic i am very much confused about it.

If you want to market your product immediately means you need to have SEM, SMO and SEO.

[robertwells1]

SEO is the process of improving ranking in search engines. SMO is the optimization of social media. This is a great techniques whereby you can get more traffic and business to the website. While SEM or search engine marketing a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search results pages of the engine through the use of search engine optimization, paid placement, contextual advertising , and paid inclusion.

[eniminimyni]

SEO, Search Engine Optimization, has the main purpose to promote sites on the top10 of SERP (search engines result page) to attract visitors for the its keywords,SEM,paid traffic comes with a measure of predictability, allowing marketers to forecast both volume and cost-efficiency for relevant metrics.

[Hogward]

Originally Posted by johnsander1

Which one is much better today to market your product or can attract more visitors/traffic i am very much confused about it.

Both the 3 methods (SEO, SMO, SEM) are required to increase traffic and promoting your product. You cannot differentiate them...

[dpchauhan]

I think SEO & SMO is mostly uses for gaining the traffic & promote your product also.

[zoobie]

All methods. You can't just reply one traffic source to get traffiic today. It is unwise to do that.

[jagbani]

Seo and Smo both are better ...

[itsanewidhere]

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that is for to optimization purpose in the search engine,SEM (Search Engine Marketing)that is for the promotion purpose mainly for the site in the internet,SMO (Social Media Optimization)Most are turning to social media and social networks like Facebook, Twitter.

[Mjoseph83]

SEO, SEM and SMO. These all are related with each other. So I want to say use all.

[lalitbansal004]

Hello Mate,
In my opinion Increase Your web traffic is more important as more traffic comes ..More visitor comes..and more visits means more publicity of your prodects.Indirectly it also helps in market your products..IF u want any kind of seo services at very cheap rates than contact me ..)

[yog888]

SEO is best but you can use SMO too. But combination of SEO+SEM+SMO is best practice.

[fernades]

Actually SEM and SMO are the two parts of SEO. We cannot say SMO is good and SEM is good. Both together will give a better result for SEO.

[highave1]

"Internet Marketing" Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Marketing & Social Media

[linksbuilder12]

SEO - PROS
1> Organic listings are a trusted source of information, believed to be unbiased and indexed solely by the automated methods of an objective third-party
2> Natural search traffic provides a steady stream of traffic over time
3> Costs are frontloaded; once pages are optimized for organic search, low ongoing maintenance fees make it cost-efficient for marketers on a limited budget

SEM - PROS
1> Paid traffic comes with a measure of predictability, allowing marketers to forecast both volume and cost-efficiency for relevant metrics
2> The free-market bidding system offers full access to a target audience and the opportunity to scale campaigns and pursue them aggressively, creating synergies with sales promotions
3> Paid traffic can provide a boost to site volume when most needed

Social media optimization is the methodization of social media activity with the intent of attracting unique visitors to website content.

[Dentist]

Some hints:
- SEO takes time but is less expensive eventually and more stable compared to Pay Per Click Campaigns that can be considered part of SEM. in Pay Per Click campaigns, you usually pay higher amounts but you get the visits and some conversion right away if you manage to do it the right way.
- To compare do the following steps:
1- Analyze how much one client is worth for you.
2- Check the PPC (Pay Per Click) costs (CPC) for your target keywords.
3- Check the number of searches and competition for your targeted keywords. That will help you assess the SEO part. You can assume you will get 40% of searches as visit to your website if you rank first in Google for a term, 20% if you rank second, 10% if you rank third and less than 5% for every other position on the first page on average.
- The more competition the more costly your SEO will be.
- For SMO, separately assess Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Depending on your niche, one of them may work the best for you. Assess the conversion rate from likes or followers and the cost of getting enough like or followers. Then you will have a basis for comparison.

I hope that would help

[aleisha220]

SEO, SEM and SMO all are important to market your product and attract more traffic. These are the great techniques of promoting our products and services online

[xzlana]

Do organic SEO first, then start advertising. All of these techniques are complementary, so it's important to use them altogether.

[JawadAshraf]

Only Search Engine Optimization, because its trusted, it works & its FREE. It just takes time to get high rankings but when you managed to get sweet spots then everything is in your control. So learn the SEO in depth from the experts, apply what works and skip what is the time waster.

[jollydutta]

SEO, SMO, SEM those three are most improtent factor to get rank as well traffic...

[oclseo]

Originally Posted by johnsander1

Which one is much better today to market your product or can attract more visitors/traffic i am very much confused about it.

SEO is only a part of SEM.
SMO is only a part of SEO.
Therefore SEO and SMO is only a part of SEM, there is no difference with them, in my own opinion.

[dburk]

Hi johnsander1,

Is this a serious question?

Or, is it just something you came up with to make a nearly effortless placeholder for your signature links?

Your question demonstrates a complete lack of effort on your part to understand what those industry initialisms stand for. Or, was meant to be a trick question?

There is no correct answer since any one of them could be the best under the right conditions. Furthemore, both SEO and SMO can be part of an SEM campaign. SEO is subset of SEM, and SMO is often part of an SEM/SEO campaign, but not always.

If one must choose a best option then make it all three, because excluding any one will always be inferior to employing all.

[warrich]

SEO leads all the way. Make sure that your site is presentable to all, SE and humans alike so that if you get traffic from users they will want to return and return. SEO is a one shot job and then you just have to monitor the traffic and make slight adjustments. SMO gets you recognized quickly.