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Some Comparisons and Similarities of SEO and SMO:

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.

Content:
SEO – Quality content is important in order to rank well.
SMO – Quality content is important in order to hold the readers’ attention and win their approval.

Analysis:
SEO – Analysis is necessary in order to know which changes have made an impact (positive or negative) on the site’s rankings.
SMO – Analysis is necessary to know what types of content draws interest.

Predictability / the Benefit of Experience:
SEO – Experts are able to reproduce success with new sites (although it’s not as easy as it sounds), as the same elements can be applied.
SMO – Those who know the social media audience can recreate success by publishing posts and headlines specifically for this purpose.

Success Breeds More Success:
SEO – Trusted domains will have a positive effect on all pages, including new pages.
SMO – Power profiles on sites like Digg can keep traffic flowing with new submissions.


I believe that SMO is the best way for new websites and blogs to draw visitors. This early success with social media can have long-lasting effects on search engine rankings as well.

These days SEO and SMO both are needed side by side to see good result. SEO is process to put your site in top in search engines. social media optimization is link back practice and traffic getting method.

SEO give you organic traffic with business......SMO give you traffic only traffic.

I prefer SEO more it's very challenging :)

А поможет ли SEO увеличить искуственно индекс цитирования.

its a very nice information

Whatever be the case.... Search Engines is the only source that drives huge & relevant traffic to your website. SMO is also necessary, but it doesn't guarantees relevant traffic & conversions.

Social Media Optimization (SMO) is the activity methodization of social media with the intention of attracting unique visitors to the website content. SMO is one of the two methods of optimization of web sites, the other method is search engine optimization or SEO.
Search engine optimization, the process of improving ranking in search engines.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think that when social search finally rolls out, cyber stalkers will have a high probability of success in stalking profiles in social networking account - right? So, do you think Social Search will kill SEO and the careers of many SEO specialist out there? I've read news on Social Search here. Thanks in advance for sharing your ideas.