Major Trend Alert: Shared Links Can Trump SEO for Internet Marketing
Link sharing inspired by social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and/or LinkedIn is nothing new. But fresh data published in Sundayβs New York Times by Brad Stone in his article, βShare The Moment And Spread the Wealthβ reinforces the fact that this trend is continuing to gather momentum. It is doing so even to the extent that it has become equally important and now sits side-by-side with SEO (the historically dominant technique for building website traffic via Google) as a strategy for increasing the visibility for your website.
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Social marketing appears to stay around permanently and this is a good thing. It is nice to know you can share what you think and what you believe in to people who care enough to sign up with you. I am just concerned that a few might abuse such a good tool in helping spread the word out there.
Evelyn Guzman
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To me social media is more important than SEO initially. Naturally, you want people to be able to find you through Google, Bing, Yahoo! however, your true popularity comes through social media.
SEO gets you found, social media makes you famous!
What Iβve noticed is that people are quite trusting right now in shortened links that are shared via twitter or FB status updates. Thereβs no way to see whatβs behind those links without clicking on them, I wonder how long the party will last.
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