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Social media optimization this word is so new to me.....SEO is Search engine optimization then what is the basic difference between SEO and SMO????????.....

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SEO stand for Search engine optimization and SMO stand for social media optimization, seo generate unique traffic, changes are made to the content and code of a web site in order to increase its rankings in the results pages of search engines and directories and SMO is a techniques for generating publicity through social media, online communities and community websites.....

Is their any effective technique of generating publicity through social media???

Under, social media optimisation, users can apply websites like Twitter and facebook to get some customers for their websites.

SEO is Optimizing your own site in search engine and SMO is SMO is really just using social media sites to attract visitors to your websit

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Social media optimization this word is so new to me.....SEO is Search engine optimization then what is the basic difference between SEO and SMO????????.....

SMO techniques are basically used for getting genuine traffic but SEO techniques are used for increase popularity of websites.

SEO are the techniques applied to your website to generate organic traffic from search engines to your website. SMO on the other hand refers to using social media to gain brand recognition, interact with your customers and also generate traffic to your website.

With SEO your focus is making your website search engine friendly and thus gaining high rankings on the search engine result pages. With SMO the focus is on increasing your PR, interacting with your customers, etc. Hope that helps.

Basic difference btw SEO and SMO Is!
SEO is used for making site visible in the eyes of search engine.
SMO is used for making site visible in the eyes of people...(By Publicity)

Basically seo and smo is a part of internet marketing. With SEO your focus is making your website search engine friendly and thus gaining high rankings on the search engine result pages. With SMO the focus is on increasing your PR, interacting with your customers, etc. Hope that helps.
And thanks for sharing your information about SEO and SMO.

is SMO something i should be focusing on as well as SEO? or should i just stick to SEO as my main focus?

You should also use SMO techniques as well for attracting the users...

SEO Is Social Engine Optimization
and SMO is Social Media Optimization
SMO is a technique in which many of the techniques like directory submission,Keyword submission,forum posting,blog commenting,link exchange is involved and in
SBM with the help of different social media sites like facebook,digg,yahoo,etc the number of visitors are attracted and increased

SMO is a set of methods for generating publicity through social media, online communities and community websites. SEO we target those keywords which are given at our website and other related keywords so that our website rank at the top.

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Both are nearly same which increases the traffic in the web world.But there is a little difference that is
SEO is used to generate traffic using On Page SEO and Off Page SEO.In this the search engines are Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, etc
SMO is use to generate traffic on a** website** using social news and bookmarking sites, video and blogging sites, as well as social networking sites in this we can search the social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, Vine, etc.

SMO is totaly depend on social media that interact with each others about products or services. You can generate istant back link to your site and promote it on various social media.

Well, I guess the basic difference between the SEO and SMO is clear just by expanding the term SEO and SMO.
SEO-Search Engine Optimisation
SMO-Social Media Optimisation

So, it's clear that SEO is optimising the webpage for search engine and SMO is optimising your site to get more visible socailly like facebook, twitter, linkedIn etc.

SEO means Search Engine Otimization & SMO stands for Social Media Otimization. With the hel of SEO SEO you can optimising the webpage for search engine & with the hel of SMO you can increase your site traffic.

SEO is stands for Search Engine Optimizations to promote our business keywords at organic search results. SMO is stands Social media optimizations to promote the business status updates at social networking sites .

SEO is search Engine Optimization, it is used to popularize the website in search engine.
SMO is Search Media Optimization, it is used for branding the website.

Both technique we used for the purpose of promotion but we do seo for the purpose of pomoting website on google bing or yahoo and as far as social media, it help us generating traffic for our website.

Difference between SEO and SMO is:
SEO - SEO stands for serch engine optimization,it is the process to increasing the ranking of website in serch engine.
SMO - SMO stands for social media optimization,the purpose for it increase traffic on your website.

SEO is Search engine optimization and SMO is Social media optimization both are different things but help to get traffic on website through different techniques.

The bas difference in seo and smo. The seao means search engine optimizations & smo is social media optimizations. SEO done to generate the traffic from organic search and smo use to generate the traffic from social websites.

Well, every one know about the social media and as far as search engin optimization then only people from this industry aware about this. Basic difference you can say that SEO we use for promoting website google and social media we use for promoting website on facebook, twitter, linkdin and Google+.

SEO aiming for a machine that cannot react emotionally
SMO aiming for people that only react emotionally
Impossible to be absolutely in both at the same time,
as everything else,
a balance between where the hits and conversions are going to come from for your specific marketing needs

SEO is a methodology of strategies and techniques used to increase the website traffic and to improve ranking in search engine results pages.
SMO is the process of attracting the users through posting the creative content. SMO is nothing but engaging the visitors.

SEO is done for the visibility of your business, while SMO is used for marketing your business in social media to reach target audience.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a set of strategies with the broad goal of bringing more people to your website the first way, by improving your search engine rankings.
Social media optimization (SMO) can be one part of SEO—but it also contributes to all three ways people find you online.

SEO is used to get your business noticed, while SMO is used for marketing your business. SEO helps in increasing traffic to your site, while SMO also helps in connecting with your prospective customers. SMO helps in building long and strong customer base

What is SEO?

SEO is considered to be a collection of strategies that have a broad goal of bringing out more people to the website right through the first way by just improving the rankings of search engine optimization. SMO (Social Media Optimization) is considered to be a part of the SEO, and it contributes to SEO in three different ways, which eventually helps people to find you online.

What is SMO?

As the name suggests, SMO (Social Media Optimization) does deal with the different social networks and also helps in contributing to the ever-growing importance of the business. This is one of those factors of optimization deals, which ultimately improves the presence of the company and increases the online reputation through different interactive communities which involve not only Twitter and Facebook, but also forums, blogs, etc. All the sources where the business is actually mentioned or linked to socially.
Working with SMO helps to strengthen the brand and increase the presence extremely. This eventually results in producing proper leads and thereby increasing sales. Optimizing the social media accounts does build both trust and familiarity for the business, as consumers will see your website mentioned as well as recommended highly.

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