Recently, two of my colleagues and I set about looking into the ways in which social media and SEO can exist together, the benefits of each and which is more important to your website.

The blog discussed whether search engine optimisation and social media optimisation work well together, by delving into both areas on a general level and explaining how to use them to your advantage, concluding with our final opinions on the matter.

We concluded that SEO techniques are employed to help sites rank highly in the search engine results pages of Google, Bing and Yahoo while SMO is used to raise brand awareness, create a buzz and get consumers talking about you. The main aim of both these techniques is to effectively make you and/or the site better known and more popular, which will result in more traffic and sales or whatever you aim your goal to be.

In our opinion, SMO and SEO can exist perfectly together. They both have positives and negatives but together they can provide a tool that if used correctly, can make your online presence develop hugely.

While SMO will continue to grow over the years and SEO continues to shift and change, the main focus will be on your users/customers and to build relationships and trust with them.

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