SEO Vs SMO

[johnvictor]

which is the best one to derive traffic to website?

[webworm]

Sorry for that .What does SMO means?

[Glowrry]

Both are the best and if you want huge traffic so you can use anyone because both are there own importance .It depends which type of traffic you want..

[nicktyler]

You should use both and try to integrate them together to get the most value from your campaigns.

[nicktyler]

SMO= Social Media Optimisation

[mahol]

SEO FOR LONG TERM TRAFFIC.
SMO FOR SHORTH TERM TRAFFIC.

SEO can give you organic traffic for long period.

SMO sites like digg.com and stumbleupon.com can give 20-30K traffic in only 1 day....

Its my experience.....

GO FOR SEO

[mahol]

You can get daily 20-30K visitors i mean direct traffic via social media sites like digg.com, but i dont know the trick....but before 1 year i got one story popular on digg.com i gor 28K visitors in one day which made 37$ in one days...that was awesome experience for first time....

Originally Posted by GigaL

I get it now,thanks

[rithika]

SMO is the social SEO. SMO doesnot build any incoming links, as in SEO. Though both has its own importance, SEO takes over the advantage.

[Tom Albas]

SEO has been a common activity of website owners for years now. It is no doubt effective. Search Engines sends tons of free traffic to those with the high rankings for popular search terms.

While Social media optimization has only become popular in the past few years as the use of social networking sites has exploded. When compared with successful SEO, social media traffic is less steady. Those who use social media effectively can consistently draw traffic with new content.

[gs000707]

Originally Posted by rithika

SMO is the social SEO. SMO doesnot build any incoming links, as in SEO. Though both has its own importance, SEO takes over the advantage.

SMO - are we talking about placing some Facebook, Twitter "I like it" plugins on your site or spamming your Facebook wall with links to your blogs, sites?

As somebody wrote here before me, SMO as the short-term and immediate traffic booster, that would make sense, if you tweet or facebook something, it eventually goes away and it usually happens really fast, especially, if you have 100+ friends list, but maybe I misinterpreted the whole thing.

[AlbertSmiths]

Link Building:
SEO – Inbound links are a large determining factor in rankings.
SMO – Links are a result of success, which means that SEO benefits from good SMO.

On Page Elements:
SEO – Title tags, headers, image title, bold text and use of keywords are all influential on search engine rankings.
SMO – Coding and tags are not so important, while visual attention grabbers make a bigger impact.

Titles:
SEO – The title tag of a page tells the search engines what a page is about and carries a lot of weight in the rankings.
SMO – Titles and headlines are extremely important for grabbing attention and getting users to click-through.

[kenmorgan]

Just a note that SEO since the Panda changes now includes SMO. Eric Scmidt, the executive chairman of Google has stated that social signals, the “people you hang with” are now ranking factors.


SEOMOZ's research has also found a strong correlation between social signals and search engine ranking. Strong correlation was found with Facebook shares, likes and comments and Tweets to the URL.




So it seems like you really have to do both now.

[silverace]

there isn't a best way, this is different for each website, niche and marketable idea. I use social media to help my SEO efforts. it also brings some traffic along!

[faceblogger]

A simple google search gives you the answer
Social media optimization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Search engine optimization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[aricajwalker]

SEO is based on search a engine algorithm which keeps on updating at regular interval. This makes webmaster to keep themselves update from search engine algorithms.
SMO is of the better way to world knows about the net site or company. Also lot of people find it fascinating to promote through Social Medias. That is the reason why it is gaining popularity.
Both the techniques are handy in promoting sites & gaining ROI.

[amherstsowell]

Both Are Important for the Traffic Generate. In compare of both SMo is best way to get huge traffic on the website. Use both technique for traffic generate. Both are very Must for traffic.

[princee]

Originally Posted by mahol

You can get daily 20-30K visitors i mean direct traffic via social media sites like digg.com, but i dont know the trick....but before 1 year i got one story popular on digg.com i gor 28K visitors in one day which made 37$ in one days...that was awesome experience for first time....

Yeah sometimes even with stumble upon i get 2000 visitors daily well i dont know how as i didnt do much on that just shared my story but i think it was useless and just good to show the traffic else i didnt get even single inquiry

[arios75]

They work best when used together. SEO is a little better for a long term strategy while using social to supplement your efforts. Until you've built an audience via SMO, SEO may be the easier way to go depending on who you're targeting.

[tylerjaysen]

yeah for long term then SEO is the better way to go. But, you can get a rush of quick traffic with SMO if done the right way. But you'd be better off sticking to legit SEO white hat stuff and not trying to game google. In the long run you will be glad you did.