What is difference between SEO and SMO?

[WildnetUK]

Hi All,

it is obvious that we are doing all the things related to web promotion but what is the difference between SEO and SMO. Please share your open views about it....

[Credit Card Debt]

SEO - Search Engine Optimization that helps in getting good page rank through on-page and off-page activity.

SMO - Social Media Optimization that helps in boosting your keywords through Social Networking Sites such as Facebook, Tweeter, LinkdIn, Digg, Stumble Upon and many more.

[sanjitsihag]

SEO-SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a process of improving the rank of a web page or website in SERP (Search engine result page) of target search engine for a set of identified keyword or key phrases. In other words, SEO is about getting your target webpage on the top of your target search engine as quickly as possible to get people to click on your website.
SMO-Social media optimization (also known as SMO or social SEO) is the methodization of social media activity with the intent of attracting unique visitors to website content. SMO is one of many online methods of website optimization. One of the many other methods is search engine optimization or SEO.
There are two types of social media optimization methods:
1.Social media features added to the content itself, including: RSS feeds, social news and sharing buttons, user rating and polling tools, and incorporating third-party community functionalities like images and videos
2.Promotional activities in social media aside from the content being promoted, including: blogging, commenting on other blogs, participating in discussion groups, and posting status updates on social networking profiles.
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[youngcox]

Seo and smo are tools of internet marketing which make good support to provide perfect services. Seo is best way to get organic traffic which with very cheap rate. Than smo is best for make famous to a product in the internet. It use media and animation clips of product information that on social networks which easily promote it.

[marcussmith]

SEO is stands for Search Engine Marketing, SEO is used to increase visibility of site in search engine via organic search results. SEO is concept design to increase traffic and popularity of site from different sources. In SEO different techniques are used to getting traffic like social bookmarking, forum posting, blog commenting and some more.
SMO is stands for Social Media Optimization, SMO is also used to increase traffic from the from the different sources other than search engine. SMO is generally drive traffic from the social sites by creating link on social sites and also used to promote business or brand.

[anandandroid]

Marcussmith has explained clearly the difference between SEO and SMO.

[Ken Peterson]

SEO and SMO both are related things in web promotion. SEO is used to increase visibility of your site while SMO is used for making popular your business so, both the ways are used to increase traffic and sales.

[MikeAdler10]

Seo - \"Search engine Optimization\" It\'s done for promoting the website on internet. Also website content and designs are optimized and backlinks are created.
Smo - \"Social media Optimization\" It\'s done for promoting website on social media sites like facebook, Twitter etc.

[swissramen]

SMO is only valid for social networking sites like myspace, facebook, twitter, orcut, etc. While SEO is broader than SMO and it includes various link building strategy to increase SERP ranking of websites.

[philipkeller]

In SMO they can use and target our services or products through walking a blog, book marking, Video sharing etc. through using network sites like orkut, facebook, twitter, my space etc. These all the services help to increase traffic on the net site.

In SEO they can use onpage and offpage optimization and do onpage optmization in the search engines by using title tags, meta tags, keywords tags, keywords density content modification, cross linking, using images alt tags, heading tags etc.in the search engines by using title tags, meta tags, keywords tags, keywords density content modification, cross linking, using images alt tags, heading tags etc.