Before looking at the 6 steps to improve your Social media optimization (SMO), let’s take a step back and highlight something that every business should know.
What is SMO?
SMO is designed to drive traffic from social media. It is similar to Search Engine Optimization in the sense that the goal is to generate traffic and awareness for your website.
These are Six steps to help you assess and plan your current SMO activity:
Reputation
You need to build up your reputation as a qualified source of knowledge. You can do this by creating your original material, such as a blog, graphic content, videos…
Try to be concise, informative, and entertaining.
Keep your profile(s) up to date.
Focus on Quality, not quantity.
Engagement
Encourage your users to share and engage directly with you. This can include commenting, mentions, shares, and likes.
You can also encourage people to engage with a call to action. For example, if you find this article helpful, share it!
Don’t think of engagement as just a single interaction with your customers.
Authority
Be an expert in your field by writing knowledgeably about what you do.
Set yourself up in Google Authorship as a way to build up your authority in your field. Depending on how much and how often you write, when customer search for information in your industry, your name will come up too
Leadership
Pave the way by being original and creative, be head of the pack, not the one trailing behind.
This means doing your research and incorporating your competitors’ sites’ best elements and ideas in a totally new, different, appealing, and entertaining way.
Add in links to other authoritative sites whose information can add value and another perspective to what you have to say.
Media
Familiarize yourself with all the Social Media sub-cultures so that you communicate in the right way on each specific platform. The more personality there is behind your business’ profile, the more people will be willing to chat with you and be receptive to what you have to say.
Optimization
Augment your performance by getting all the technical details right, no dead pages, no links that don’t work, no pages that take forever to load, or other dead-end situations.
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