There’s a never-ending debate as to which of these two is more important. Well, SEO is important because it attracts people to your blog or website, where you want them to land up. Similarly, if you have a well-optimized social media profile, there are chances of ranking high in the search engines. That’s because social media websites are themselves optimized and they help to bring a lot of incoming links to your site/blog.
However, social media may not take into account certain factors which search engines consider while making your content visible to others on the web. What I mean is, search engines do have algorithms based on which they’ll consider whether or not to rank your web page in a certain position. But with social media, you make your content visible to a wide range of web users. Here, the search engine algorithms have no role to play. However, the content quality should be high, as because you won’t have too many people spreading the word about it across social media networks.
So, the fact remains that both SEO and SMO contribute towards making people view your content more, thus driving in more traffic to your website/blog and helping you to convert them into regular visitors or leads. Whether you’ll give more emphasis on SEO or SMO depends on the goals you have, the kind of traffic you’re looking for and what you want the traffic to do for you. The key is to make the best use of both processes. In fact, it is possible to make both of them work for you as they have more similarities than differences.
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