Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Social Media Optimization – Blog Away to Success

In my last post, we discussed what are social media optimization and its benefits. How it is a holistic approach to popularity and promotion in a number of ways. Now, I will delve deeper into the topic and take up different ways of going about social media optimization.

In this post, we will discuss how blogging can help in social media optimization.

Blogging is no more a new concept. The whole world seems to have woken up to this amazing way to voice individual opinion. Blogs are more like mini websites that anyone can own and maintain. But more than that, it seems to have become the platform where you can place any thing that you want to show or express to the entire world.

Blogs can be used by organizations and businesses to promote their products or services or also the company at large. It can also be used as a side track to your business where you can delve deeper into the field or vertical that you are into or that is related to you.

In blogs, you can have as personal a tone as you want to or you can get as professional as you would like to. Usually blogs have a very personal tone. This also helps in establishing a friendly relationship with readers, customers or casual visitors.

With blogs you can do any thing you want for the purpose of SMO

  1. You can give more knowledge in the subject matter – take up topics that you could not address in your site.
  2. You can ask for queries and resolve them for your customers or interested people.
  3. You can give industry updates to your regular readers.
  4. You can initiate a friendly chit chat with your readers to know what they want from the products you provide, or what are their expectations from your organization. Basically you can get to know what they have in their hearts.
Basically you can do anything that you want with your blog. You can unleash the potential of a blog and get as close as possible to your target audience or potential customers.

You can also use your blog to reach out to experts and other players in your vertical or industry and establish a great rapport with them too. But will that be a feasible idea? Leave your comments and queries if you have any.

1 comment:

RichardSmith said...

Great post!

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.

Thanks..
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