Social Media Optimization (SMO) Mini-Guide

Time has arrived when apart from normal SEO and Online marketing a crucial weightage is given on SMO and If you don't have competent strategy for SMO you wont survive on the net for a long time.So for this long term planning lets understand the concept and importance of SMO(Social Media Optimization).

Why and What Is SMO?

In 2014 social media got more reputation if we compered it with search engine optimization.

Social media is an easy way to get more and more visitors on your blogs/sites.

I think SMO is a need for websites/blogs.

You can use sharing and following buttons on your sites/blogs for real and automated SMO.

Personally I got more visitors on my blogs via SMO.

You can easily optimize social media because you already know how to use Social medias.

Now a days Facebook and StumbleUpon on the first list if we talk about SMO.

You can use any social media for SMO.

How To Do Social Media Optimization (SMO) ?

One of the leading SMO advocates  Joshua Berg  has give us a list of seven tips on REAL-SMO which is written below. I have made some changes in these tips hope you like.

1. Reputation : build your reputation as a reliable qualified source, (Your reputation is works fine for SMO).
2. Engagement : encourage more engagement, sharing & reciprocate, short tip : Share others updates and tell others to do some for you.
3. Authority - become a notable authority in your field of expertise, gain more respect of your social media fellows.
4. Leadership - harness originality & creativity, be a Thought Leader, Give some tips to your friends and social media fellows.
5. Social - be social, find and engage sociable experts in your field, Do search and follow professionals in your field.
6. Media - know your social media platforms to maximize influence, Do experiments with all social medias and choose one for as you like.
7. Optimization - improve technical aspects to increase optimization.

Best social Media platforms for SMO

1. Google+ : If you want to do smo with seo then you need to use Google+. Because Google+ is owned by Google Inc, so if you use Google+ then you will get higher rank in Google search results.
2. StumbleUpon : This another great platform for web developers, we all can get lots of traffic on our blogs/sites via SU.
3. Twitter : As you all know Twitter is a well developed platform for webmasters we can use it frequently with #tag we will get more visitors from twitter to our web pages.
4. Facebook : Hey wait! Don't forget Facebook because Facebook is leader of all social medias. You can get tons of visitors from Facebook using Facebook pages, Groups, Apps and more features.
5. Reddit : The front page of internet. This a awesome platform for you all. Also reddit is free but you have to use it professionally.
6. Other great networks :  Digg, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Indiblogger, Bloggers, LinkedIn, MySpace, FriendSter, Pinterest etc.