Comments on: The Evaporating Yellow Line between SEO & Social Media

By: Stop Waiting for SEO Heroes and Make Great Stuff

Stop Waiting for SEO Heroes and Make Great Stuff — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:57:15 +0000

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By: George Cleanthous

George Cleanthous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:58:18 +0000

I think it is important to distinguish between article marketing and social marketing. Some people (as can be seen from the comments) seem to believe that they are the same. Article marketing, in my opinion, has far more value than social marketing, since the content on the pages you will receive links from is far more related to your particular website than it would be on ANY social marketing site. In addition, when submitting articles, you can have multiple links referring to your site and you are far more likely to get links back to your article in the directory than you are to get a link back to your bookmarking entry.

I definitely agree that the line is disappearing, but as more and more social marketers begin using this method, I am certain Google will either lower the value of spammed social marketing or, if they cannot differentiate, social marketing altogether. So keep using it now, but remember that this should never be your only marketing strategy.

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:09:28 +0000

@Michael: Thanks for being so generous with your thinking Michael. Cool beans.

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:55:31 +0000

Marty, unfortunately you don’t allow trackbacks or pings as here is your answer: http://seo2.0.onreact.com/the-7-pillars-of-seo-20

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:44:00 +0000

@Chris, thanks for the insight.

By: Chris Cree

Chris Cree — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:01:45 +0000

I’m right there with you Marty. I think the two are blending together. I’m coming at it from the social media side. And quite frankly most of the PR types don’t yet have a good understanding of how social media really works. They’re still trying to push the message into the social media world instead of doing the work to build relationships and sharing value with communities.

But with big traditional organizations like Fast Company embracing true social media mindsets I think change is inevitable now.

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:29:15 +0000

@Gypsy: Crucification is a historical reality of various eras of human society. It is SURE not mean as commentary on any religious faith.

Cutting off peoples’ heads, gassing them, etc…folks have been killing innocents, criminals, & and messengers for forever. No need to be queasy about the analogy or metaphor.

By: theGypsy

theGypsy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:45:19 +0000

Man, I won’t even touch that one. I saw what happened over on TechCrunch when that term was used… ugh…..

I think it is a good discussion actually, no need to crucified (jeez, we’ve offended the Christians and Muslems in one felled swoop huh?)

Anyhoo…. I put my thoughts n my blog (of course).. just don’t like link dropping, you know where to find me :0) – If you want to annotate and put the link – go nuts.

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:22:17 +0000

@Gypsy: When I was writing this, I expected to be crucified. Thus the Jihad and pogrom imagery.

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:21:16 +0000

@Tad: What is SEO 2.0 by your definition?