subject: Social Media and SEO [print this page] According to social media news, recent changes in the Facebook algorithm however have kind of negatively affected that relationship between Social Media and SEO. With the introduction of the Like' and Share' buttons on Facebook, websites can now increase traffic to them by using those buttons. By placing those buttons on their site, they can enable every click to be shared personally on the clicker's profile. The exponential increase in the eventual number of clicks through Social Media is almost too awesome for words! Also, the introduction of the Like' and Share' buttons has taken away the search-result-ranking hunt that people used to strive for on Google. Google was the main source for SEO to come up anyway. SEO being replaced by "News Feed Optimization" as now people are calling it, is a recent technological advancement in terms of increasing site-traffic.
What works for both Social Media and SEO though to help your company increase sales is that you will can work on both the concepts together to get amazing results. Use Social Media for promoting your product on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and blogs; use SEO to bring up whatever you share in search results. The better your SEO skills, the more visits you will get on your shared items. The more visits you get, the more will be the chances of getting in-links, the higher the spot in search results again. This in actuality is the fascinating bit about using Social Media and SEO together. Instead of wasting insane amounts of time and money on old business tactics, you can make your customers your sellers'! Emarketer notes that around 79.5 million people (41% of the population) in USA visited social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter in 2008 and there has been a significant increase in visits till 2010. With numbers like these, the business game based around Social Media and SEO can only get more interesting as time passes.
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