Thursday 23 August 2012

Push Up Your Search Rank with Social Media

Social media sites are one direct and efficient means of instant communication and entertainment for almost all online users today, and is still becoming more useful as the tight competition among those which are regularly patronized such as facebook, twitter, and LinkedIn never loosens. This is the fortunate side of the innovation in the virtual marketing which has countered the negativity of the recent changes or updates in the search engine, specifically, those which are related to the rules and procedures of optimization.

The reason why, as officially noted in the eMarketer, the social media's impact on leading the SEO business is predicted to override the global optimization next year. Thus, the online marketers should really be wise enough in analyzing how would the said mediums affect the system on ranking or visibility in the engine. This is undeniably a complete opposite of what was the trend then in making the site visible through the compliance on the web structure and meta tags or content, link submissions in directory, and relevant linking in sites or blogs. Hence, it is not new now that, as a result of the transformation thereof, the Facebook was able to takeover with at least 800 million users. 

Nevertheless, as the rule in the previous year favorably changed, the Google bolstered the use of social media in bookmarking, author reputation, commenting, and other factors such as shares and tweets as one indispensable factor in search engine ranking. But then, there is still bewilderment among site optimizers on where they should really focus on: in optimizing or driving more traffic to the social pages or website? And how they should communicate their corporate or personal brand, and where does it live?

Upon one hand, there is a positive side in the advancement of digital tools in effectively managing the contents. For instance, the WordPress has become one great tool for web marketers in sharing videos, illustrations, and other features in the social arena to control their company's consistency and site's visibility. However, the crucial point to clarify then is how can you, as a site optimizer, utilize social media to increase traffic, push up your ranking, and gain more clients? If you're thoughtless about it, then you must take note of the following brief yet comprehensive discussions on how you should treat and what you must do with the social media to save your business:

  • Outline Your Plan - after developing keyword phrases, you then need to outline a clear task plan which would serve as your guide to evaluate the efficiency of your integrated social media and SEO technique. Specifically, your plan should include the types of content and the frequency of links or shares among the sites. It is to be noted, however, that the effectiveness of social media in increasing the ranking or visibility is also dependent on several factors such as the number of followers, relevance of the content, quality of the author, and quantity of comments, tweets, or shares.
  • Define and Stick with Your Brand – you should always bear in mind that a uniform brand message could cause the visibility of your business in different sites, thus, you should ensure to have an explicit brand and focus on it while marketing in the social media. Nonetheless, you can't successfully do it without first having yourself become familiar with social media and search engine optimizations tactics. Hence, you should have a team to research on current trends and formulate new strategies for your efficient utilization of social media sites.
  • Search Your Keyword – this should be your primary duty so you can develop a main strategy which you'll be employing during the entire activity of optimization in the social media sites. You should likewise find time in innovating your keywords to compete with your rivals in the market and acquire excellent ranking. Yet, it would be practicable for you to discuss with your team the goals you need to achieve in a specified time to boost your value and identity in the sites.
  • Employ Effective SEO Techniques – in discerning how would you be able to place a certain rank for your keywords, you still first have to execute the techniques in SEO especially when you desire to change your marketing plan. After which, you can talk with your team regarding the strategies and plans you are going follow. However, you should also note that the optimization in social media also requires authenticity, consistency, and regular management.
Doubtlessly, with proper and effective optimization techniques in social media sites, you can certainly ensure that your business, or the product and service being promoted, would be visible despite the less effort you have exerted in making your followers see how your team was “blinded” just to make your ranking climb on the ladder of success of the search engine.

1 comments:

  1. Organic Social Media is very effective to push your niche site up on major search engines. All the tips that you pointed out here are very true actually I am doing those also for my SMO strategy.

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