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Facebook Acquires Hot Potato; Great News for Social Media Networking

Facebook announced today that it’s purchasing Hot Potato, a special kind of check-in service. While other similar services only allow users to list actual physical locations for which they are checking into (say, for instance, a restaurant they are visiting), Hot Potato takes it a few steps furthe.... More »

Facebook Becomes More Integrated With Apple iOS Software Kit

iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users, rejoice! Accessing Facebook via the Apple iOS operating system just got a whole lot easier with the launch of a new software development kit. Apple users have traditionally struggled to go social on via their mobile devices. Facebook addresses this issue with .... More »

Businesses to Claim Locations on Twitter

Twitter introduced its Places feature in June and since then, twitterers have been able to geo-tag their tweets. Although this feature has been made use of by twitter users, it has not really seen much development or expansion in its use until recently. Twitter recently took its Places feature a st.... More »

Social Media Builds Businesses

Social media is here to stay and is a great way to build your business. Some of the most popular online activities are blogs and social networks like Facebook, so you should harness the power of social media in order to keep your business growing. Search engine optimization (SEO) strategies wor.... More »

Facebook Brand "Fans" More Likely to Make Purchases

A new report from Opinionway and DDB indicates that Facebook users who "like" a brand's page on the site are 92 percent more likely to recommend a product to others and 33 percent more likely to buy a product. The report also found that users disengaged with pages that weren't regularly updated.... More »

It is being talked about in the SEO circle and all over internet marketing that SEO will soon become secondary in the markets. There will be new sources beyond SEO and that would be the power of syndication networks and social media.

WOW, could it be that people are really starting to believe that word of mouth really does have capability to influence people’s decisions? Actually to me, that’s old news too.

You that are addicted to SEO, I see you over there, checking your stats, freaking out over wanting more clicks and search engine hits. YES…YOU! You addicted people that sit that wondering if you should target more keywords or did I create links that are no follows or heaven forbid if you didn’t know what your page rank was.

Hold on to your seats everyone because as far as I am concerned, SEO isn’t the end all for traffic in the internet world. Yes, I will say that back in its day in the early 2000’s that’s all we knew because if you needed to know something you actually went to look for it whether it was online or at a store or you asked friends via email if they had any clue where to find something.

Well it’s all changed now as far as my thinking goes its heading to syndication networks and social media, the world is slowing moving away from SEO.

Stop and think about it, some great examples that back my thinking on this is Twitter, iTunes, YouTube, Facebook…ah yes I see the light flickering in your eyes, you are getting what I am saying, or are you?

You will get more traffic just from written content then you will by SEO clicks. So, it’s time to put aside your stats and where you are ranking.

My new motto is going to be “Get Social”, go to where the cool kids are hanging out because by being in a social network you will start the conversations rolling and with that participation brings, yes, you got it more traffic! I am so proud!

In today’s world it’s imperative to be in a social network, you can ask about products, get answers, promote your product and business and you can even promote yourself! Putting yourself in front of people any way you can think of via a social network such as a video, blogs, tweets, commenting on blogs that time spent will be the most effective way for you to get the traffic you so desire!

I know, it will be hard to let go of your SEO obsession, but if you head these words and play in as many social media channels as you can possibly manage, you’ll find that a whole new world will be opened up before you!