Are Social Tech And SEO Ever Destined To Work Together?

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Jan
3

I’ve spent a number of years tripping around the internet, and trying to understand all it’s machinations.  That is from a popularity perspective.  Popular meaning, how can I get a lot of people interested in visiting, and perhaps helping to monetize the websites I’m responsible for.  At the moment, I’ve been reading a number of writing from two divided camps of experts on what the best way is to attract visitors to your site, and perhaps make a few sheckles of those very visitors.  Those who practice the SEO approach like SEOP Inc to website marketing and promotion would have a hard time being that web traffic via social networks is next to impossible to monetize, and not really worth pursuing.

But, to the denizens of bloggers around the web that make a living of their sites (blogs), which attract a lot of social traffic would vehemently disagree.  I do think there is truth and viability in both camps, and the “experts” that recognize that are sure to not only survive, but thrive in the years to come.  As a matter of fact, I believe that in the future the camps will diverge and the distinction between the two will fade.  The fact is that experts in a particular field, whether it be social network engineering or SEO or chicken coop builders often only recognize their particular way of doing things.  That’s a trap you can avoid simply by being open minded.

How Technology Makes Social Media Possible

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Dec
22

What exactly do they mean when they talk about “social networking”, or “social media”.  Well, they’re not really the same thing, and the terms don’t just mean FaceBook either.  Although, FaceBook could certainly be considered a social network, and it does create a fair amount of social media.  What’s at the heart of both of these terms, is people.  It’s people coming together to either interact or create.  Quite often, it can be difficult to distinguish between interacting or creating, since one often begets the other.

The process of social interacting by having chats, leaving messages, and sharing links on FaceBook for instance is actually creating a huge logged resource for others to reference.  The fact that we record and log all our collective interactions and experiences creates a record of our history in an intimate detail never before seen in the history of mankind.  It’s weird, and a little creepy.  Is it still staking, if anthropologists are checking out my profile pictures thousands of years after I’m dead?  Now when we look back into thousands of years into the past, it takes highly trained experts to figure out what people ate and believed in.  All this often based on digging and sifting through ancient ruins and disasters.  10, 100, or 1000 years from now, they’ll just have to check our archived Facebook statuses.  With all this fancy technology, were basically putting anthropologists out of business.  Not to mention, historians and a whole other host of professions.  Keep that in mind kids when your looking for a college major.

The trick then will be the same as it is now.  Basically, how to sift through the sheer volume of crappy data, and find the stuff that’s really important.  I guess, that’s a whole new job in and of itself.