Social Media Optimization (SMO) – How to optimize any website

• Increase Content’s linkability: Linkability is most essential precedence for all websites, because most of the sites are static. To optimize a site for social media, First and most important step is to increase linkability of content and blog hosting is very helpful to improve linkability of content.
• Build tagging and bookmarking: Adding content features like quick buttons “bookmark to delicious” “share on facebook” “Share on twitter” etc. is simple and easy way to make the process of tagging pages easier. 
• Reward inbound links: Return or reward inbound links are used as a gauge for success of a website or blog; inbound links are dominant to rising in search results and overall rankings. From using Permalinks to recreating similarly, listing recent linking blogs on your site provides the reward of visibility for those who link to you. 
•  Help your content movement: For SMO only changes in existing website is not sufficient. When you have a content that is portable like audio files, video files, PDF etc then submit these files to relevant sites only that will help your content travel and will increase a back links for your website. 
• Promote your mashup: For this technique, follow the idea of YouTube which provides a code for videos on YouTube to cut and paste, so you can imbed videos from their site, due to this the rate of popularity of videos and YouTube increases. With the help of RSS feeds you can also create mashup which helps to increase popularity of your website. 
• Develop your SMO strategy: Define your objectives and set your goals and always aware that what you are doing in SMO and what will be the actual results for website with the help of Social Media Optimization.

CREDIT:
The 5 NEW Rules Of Social Media Optimization (SMO) by Rohit Bhargava

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