What is more important SEO or Social Media?

[Megha]

Any body has idea what is the most important SEO or Social Media for promote any website or for business sale because now-days the SEO is dead and social media gives jump to your business very quickly. so what should be prefer.

[Venu]

Both tools are parallel to succeed. SEO is not dead, but optimized. I recommend Social media for a brand promotion and get a lot of customers... Meanwhile SEO can attracts a lot of potential customers globally.

[I know nothing]

who says SEO is dead? that's nonsense.

[Karl Skotte]

Today, a good SEO strategy is incomplete without a social component, and a good social media strategy contributes to your SEO initiative. Here are the top 5 tactics you need to employ in 2012 to maximize your online marketing.

1. Get an onsite SEO audit

An onsite SEO audit is the foundation of your SEO campaign. Getting one will help you answer questions like: Are your title and meta tags optimized? How’s your keyword density? Have you correlated certain pages with certain keywords? Is that evident in the copy? Have you done your LSI (latent semantic indexing) research and incorporated it into the copy?

Do you have an html and an xml sitemap, and can Google crawl them? How’s your page load speed?

An onsite SEO audit is relatively cheap, and it’s a one-time payment that you shouldn’t need to address more than once a year.

2. Register your brand name on the major social channels

If you’re reading this and you don’t have a Facebook page and a Twitter account, stop right now and go claim your brand name on both. Simply having a brand presence on these channels will improve your search engine rankings, because it proves credibility and authority to the search engines.

But don’t stop at Facebook and Twitter. Google +, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest are all increasing in importance not only in search engine algorithms but also in audience reach.

3. Distribute content via your social channels

Whether you post a new blog and syndicate it via your social channels or simply send a “Good morning!” tweet to your followers, you need to produce and distribute content. Doing so will help to build trust and brand loyalty with your audience while proving to the search engines that you care about your customers; a major indication of credibility.

4. Display your social media “connect” buttons on every page of your website

Allowing your website visitors to easily connect with your brand helps you in several ways. First, it maximizes the value of every website visitor. If they’re not ready to buy your product but they’re interested in doing so down the road, they at least have the option to follow you on Twitter. This allows you to stay in touch, and is much better than a visitor leaving your site without taking any action.

The SEO benefits are also rapidly increasing. Simply having these buttons on your website shows search engines that you care about your social media presence, and that shows credibility of your brand.

5. Enable your visitors to easily share your content with social media “share” buttons

Enabling visitors to easily share your content by giving them social sharing buttons is one of the easiest and most effective ways to essentially crowdsource the syndication of your content in a completely organic way. This was a priority for me on my most recent project, Crackerize.com, where I included social sharing buttons above and below each post, and specifically included text asking the user to share the content if they enjoyed it. Giving my readers the ability to easily share the site’s content has resulted in a steady stream of new visitors from social channels as well as lots of SEO-boosting social signals.

[Jhon]

Do you have any real idea about SEO dead?
Seo never dead until Google alive.
SEO and social media both are important for any business website.

[Venugopal]

No megha, SEO is not dead and Never dead. without SEO, online marketing having no options. your first question

Ans: On-page and OFF-Page.

if you do exactly as per the google Guidelines(on-page).

it will be more enough for your website.

Stop link building start link earning process. ALL THE BEST

[Linet]

According to me both are equally important. None of them can be ignored if you are having a website and want to gain publicity or visits on your site.

[Chris]

Both are important as it really helps in increasing traffic on your site which in turn increases ranking of your site. Seo is search engine optimization and has many different ways to increase the traffic but there are mainly two techniques which can be used that is off page optimization and on page optimization. Search media optimization is advertising through different social media sites like facebook, twitter etc

[Devinda Chinthaka]

oh god... who said that SEO is dead.... SEO is the ultimate destination for a company to getting success in business. and It will give you more and more leads but not Immediately. Social media is another different aspects. but today SEO & Social Media bundle together you cant get the success only from social. you need both to get success to generate more leads.

Devinda Chinthaka
eMarketing Specialist

[Emerson]

SEO and social media both are an important factors in internet marketing,but yes social media is the popular platform to do brand promotion.