Comments on: SEOs vs. Social Media Gurus

By: Amber Rae Lambke

Amber Rae Lambke — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:14:27 +0000

The question is: what are the intentions of the person behind the craft? That's what matters.

By: Amber Rae Lambke

Amber Rae Lambke — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:14:27 +0000

The question is: what are the intentions of the person behind the craft? That's what matters.

By: karen786

karen786 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:03:51 +0000

The social media marketing helps the site owners to provide traffic on their website through which they are earning and the only work of SEO's is to just clarify that the traffic is sufficient on the blog or not.
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Karen Walter

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By: Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:37:57 +0000

Stuart whether you use SEO, Social media or a combination of both to drive traffic to your site. The most important task is to find out which one works for your site and your users. You can always preform tests to see. In the end the only think that matter is getting the right recipe for your success.

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By: underdown

underdown — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:21:16 +0000

In a sense all sites are trying to game social media. I can promise you I never wrote/submitted anything hoping that 2 people would see it.

By: Eric Pratum

Eric Pratum — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:43:36 +0000

Honestly, I see them being highly entangled going forward, and while I do not currently see SEO work needing to have an SM component, I believe that the reverse is not true… Successful SM does need an SEO component.

For online marketers currently coming up now, SEO and SM should merely be two sets of tools in the same bag. Of course, different types of people will gravity to the more technical side or the more, let's say, “creative” side, but realistically, as SM processes become more codified, it will be easier to teach and learn them alongside those of SEO.

By: randy

randy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:53:56 +0000

i know a lot of true seo techies and true social media experts on digg and the ones I talk to the most have mutual respect for what each does. There are several who are very talented at both. I think the bigger difference lies in the “Internet marketers” – internet marketers are not all seo experts but they often are the ones who are pegged as the gamers because they usually are trying to game everything they can. There is a big difference in an internet marketer and a true seo or social media expert. The “internet marketers” are usually the ones giving both the seo and social experts the bad name by pretending to be an expert in either or both fields. The “internet Marketers” are the ones I hear laughed at on digg and reddit the most because they come onto both sites without understanding how to participate on either one correctly.

By: neal

neal — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:18:44 +0000

hmm; link bait tactics on social news sites actually help a site's search engine ranking; so you can leverage social media marketing as link building strategy for seo. i do agree most seo purists are more tech-oriented; however, seo pragmatism can do a lot in choosing which communities with which to build relationships.

just 2 lincolns

By: Skip Shuda

Skip Shuda — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:16:03 +0000

Interesting commentary on the different cultural perspectives between Social Media and SEO gurus. I believe that both are important – with SOcial Media requiring finetuning based on your audience. However, you CAN get metrics for both SEO and Social Media – and you should… but the metrics must be tied to your specific goals and objectives. Followers on Twitter, Friends on Facebook and referral rates from social media sites are some simple metrics. What have other people used in tracking Social Media effectiveness as part of Web Strategy?