What is SMO

There are many reasons why one would want to have a website. A website may be personal or can be used to promote your business. In any of these cases, it will be useless to have a website that no one visits. That’s why there have emerged website optimization techniques that help drive traffic to your website from other sources. The most popular optimization technique is the search engine optimization also known as SEO. SEO is used to drive traffic from the search engines. But due to high competition these days, there is an urgent need to drive traffic from other sources apart from the search engines. This is where the social media optimization technique comes in the picture.

SMO is used to help websites gain popularity through the use of social websites like Facebook,Twitter, Orkut and others. Many people have joined these sites with the aim of meeting other people and in this case one can take advantage of this fact and advertise their sites here. This means the SMO can drive a lot of traffic to your website for a very small fee and sometime even free of charge. This is the advantage of SMO over SEO.

In most cases the SMO services will include placing the client’s link in the social media. The internet users can click on this links while browsing. This helps make the websites visible to the internet users. The other SMO objective is to place social media bookmaking tabs, like buttons. The internet users can then rate and increase the website’s popularity by using the like buttons and commenting about the site in the social Medias. The social news and RSS feed buttons are then placed in the client’s websites that bring the users with the current news around the world.

The main requirement for Online Brand Engagement is for the client to register with one or more social networking sites. The links to the client’s website are then place in the social sites to ensure that internet users click on the links and thus increase the traffic to the website of the client. Internet user are given the chance to rate the client’s website thus ranking it among other websites, which provide similar services. The ranking can also be checked against the number of positive comments left by the users on the social networking sites. SMO have an advantage over SEO; in that it is less costly and gives you a chance to interact with the users.