Placing keywords into content is SEO. Yes. BUT that is not the only SEO strategy, there is so much more to SEO than this.

SMM is chatting on Twitter and Facebook and posting links. No, eerrr wrong! It’s about engagement, connecting and having a conversation with people, not talking at them.

To continue on my quest to get people to understand about these two ways of online marketing, I will continually create real life scenarios and for some reason love using the word puzzle. As the conversation begins, I already know and get excited that I will be able to use my favorite puzzle analogy! For those who understand SEO understand why a puzzle analogy works so well.

When wanting to hit each outlet and grab the most from your SEO efforts, each piece of the puzzle needs to be in place. If not, then you will not see the results you want. SEO takes time and many people think, Poof! I did it now where’s my money!?!

Social Media Marketing also takes time. To create a following, to get the visitor to trust you, everything takes time. If it was that easy then don’t you think everyone would be engaging each other? Throwing links out into the Twitter feed doesn’t engage anyone but yourself…maybe. (I mean some people do talk to themselves, I don’t know, just sayin…)

In the perfect world, both SEO and SMM would work simulatenously but we don’t live in a perfect world. Some people feel they get more business through SEO, others SMM and some feel both work. I have experienced both for my business where SEO has worked well and for many years SMM worked amazing. What I found was it didn’t make a difference which I focused on, just that both strategies needed to be worked on a daily basis. Once you stop, so does your inquiries and engagement.

She said she was doing Organic SEO research to familiarize herself more about what online marketing  can do for her new Website. (YaY, an informed business owner! WTG! ) When she found my blog and after reading a few entries she said her and her business partner were hysterical. That they haven’t found someone, I assume, who writes from a comedic point of view. (Yes, I can be very sarcastic thanks to my good old Jersey upbringing!)

I am so glad that I brought a smile and happiness to a reader of my blog that it moved her to call me to tell me. That is amazing in itself! And then add in the smile and laughing that went along with our conversation just put the icing on the cake (a Gluten-Free Cake of course!).

Thank you for the phone call and giving me something to write on my blog smiley.

Here are some pics and I look oh so lovely…

This past weekend was an amazing experience meeting everyone and hope to have many more.

This past weekend was an amazing experience meeting everyone and hope to have many more.

So I was doing my normal searching around the net as I do quite often and came upon an ad about another social networking site. The difference with this site is it pays you for every click that hits your page.

Think about all the stuff you have on your MySpace page! Blogs, pics, backgrounds, comments, viewing other people’s pages…all that would make you money.

How you ask? If you listen to the video presentation they have set up, it will tell you how. How does the world make money? Advertising and sponsors.

If you are interested in checking out Yuwie, it’s free and you can just join for fun of connecting to other people.