SMO/SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING


Social Media and SMO
Social media has taken a great leap forward in the recent years. Websites like Facebook, Twitter, My Space, Linkedin, Classmates, Orkut etc have become an integral part of our life.The concept of 'tweets' and 'likes' are being taught in management schools. In short, people have found a good friend in these so called social media websites. These websites are an effective medium for advertising and companies are using these sites to generate awareness about their brands and services.
Social Media can be classified under the following categories:-
Social Networking: Facebook   My Space   Orkut   Bebo   Linkedin  Google+  Hi5   Ibibo
Video Sharing: Youtube   Vimeo   Clipmoon   Dailymotion    Super Share   Viddler 
Blogging: Blogger  Wordpress   Weebly   Sosblog    Webgarden  Edublogs
Photo Sharing: Flickr  Picasa  Photobucket   Fotki   Fotolog  Webshots 
Bookmarking: Digg   StumbleUpon   Diigo   Delicious   Folkd   Connotea   Jumptags
Document Sharing: Scribd   Docstoc   Googledoc   Divshare    Ziddu  Slideshare   Slideboom
What is Social Media? 
Social Media are a set of technologies that work as a platform for the user to share his or her thoughts in a more effective manner. Social Media integrates individuals, their friends, like minded communities together and provides them a space to share their views. Social media is not limited to one platform, it may use any platform to reach the audience. In essence, Social Media combines communication, text, images, videos together and presents it before the audience.

Social Media Optimization
SMO stands for Social Media Optimization. These are a set of techniques which increases your website's presence in the social media websites. It encourages people to spread the buzz about your company,brand,product or services and makes it popular.There are various types of  Social Media Management Tools.
 
Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing is like oxygen for your business getting operated through your website because its the most effective way to drag more and more of returning visitors to your site that may get converted into your potential customers.
Social Bookmarking is the latest trend in search engine optimization, which has gained recognition as part of a new type of website optimization, termed “Social Media Marketing (SMM).”
Social Book marking, also referred to sometimes as “social bookmarketing”, is the term used for bookmarking sites on the web and sharing them with friends.
It is similar to bookmarking a site on your pc, in the “favorites” of your web browser.
Our SMO Experts at Web Portal India being the regular user of these social bookmarking sites have an expertise in optimizing the site to get more and more amount of new and returning visitors thereby dragging high amount of traffic to the site.
Because these sites are regularly crawled by search engines, your site will most likely also be crawled
more often by having bookmarked links on these websites. Apart from social bookmarking, we specializes in other techniques as well such as Article Submission, Blog Submission, Press Release Submission, RSS Submission that acts like a catalyst in optimizing the site and dragging targeted visitors.
 
Difference between Social Media and Social Networks
Social Media are a set of technologies that promotes the growth of social networks. On the other hand, social networks are groups or communities consisting of real world people who share a common view or passion with the help of those networks.
Social Media Examples                                                 Social Network Examples
        Facebook                                                                          Recipe Lovers
        Twitter                                                                              Aces of Cards
        Myspace                                                                           I Love Cartoon
         Youtube                                                                      Search Engine Optimizer
         Orkut                                                                               Facebook Lovers
         Flickr                                                                               The sharp mind
         Digg                                                                                Total chemistry
     Delicious                                                                             Bike Hunks
    Classmates   etc.                                                                   Chill n read  etc.

How to optimize your business website for social media?
Follow these guidelines for proper social media optimization of your website:-
Create a complete profile of your brand or company on the targeted social media website.
Join like minded social networks and share useful stuff with them.
Share some interesting news and try to integrate your brand with it.
Follow the social media etiquettes.
Include url’s to your website when sharing information with your audience.
Keep your profile updated.
Increase your social sphere. Have more likes in your facebook page, more followers on twitter profile etc.
Social Media Maintenance
We regularly update your profiles on social networks and the online community to give you desired results.
  • Update your personal and professional profiles.
  • Add new and real friends in your profiles.
  • Updating social media networks as and when required.
  • Social bookmarking on regular basis.
  • Post comments.
  • Reply to questions.
  • Add fresh content on regular basis.
  • Link building.
What does it include?
Social media optimization
  • Creation and set up of impressive business/personal profiles customized as per your business needs and goals.
  • Professional profile description and on page optimization with targeted keywords.
  • Image upload and optimization.
  • Banner creation supporting your social media campaign.
  • Integration with other social networks in each profile through icons and buttons for power blogging and networking.
  • Installation of important widgets and apps.
  • RSS feeds.
  • Adding social news buttons to money site and social channels.
  • Video creation.
  • Press release writing and distribution to top 20 newswires.       

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