Why Social Networking is Required in Today"s Search Engine Marketing
In many ways, it is connected to the technique of viral marketing in which the news or the information spreads very rapidly through networking in the social bookmarking, photo and video sharing web sites.
It is in fact, considered as an integral component of ORM or the Online Reputation Management or the SERM that means, Search Engine Reputation Management and is an effective strategy for all those individuals and organizations who are concerned about the online presence that they possess.
Social networking is the growing need of today as it allows the customers to participate and interact with the concerned web site during their experience online.
The basic objective behind this active and healthy interaction is to make the web site further accessible to the visitors by actually allowing them a chance to intermingle with the content of the web site.
As it primarily focuses at driving great web traffic towards the concerned web site from various other sources than mere search engines, it is fast becoming a great requirement of Search Engine Marketing these days.
Effective SMO can be achieved through the following means: • RSS Feeds • Bookmarking and Tagging • Creating blogs • Discussion Forums • Online images and videos The best feature is that it is cost effective and enables business globalization as well.
But there are certain rules which are to be put to effect.
They are: 1.
Increasing the linkability 2.
Making bookmarking and tagging easy 3.
Rewarding inbound links 4.
Helping the content levels 5.
Encouraging the mashup 6.
Getting the communities connected Once these have been well considered, the social bookmarking can really prove to the most effective of the tools to rank the target web site high and to fetch it great online visibility and visitor participation.