Comments on: Business websites: SEO versus Social Media, Part 2

By: Nick James

Nick James — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:11:47 +0000

Hi Wayne, I look forward to hearing your final findings on that test (6th place would certainly keep the wolves from the door for many an SEO). Keep us informed.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:03:25 +0000

Hi Nick, glad you enjoyed and thanks for the feedback, too!

Yes, I think it would be pretty interesting to see what attempts have been made (if any, and I imagine there has been) to get a business positioned well with(in) social media.

I’m still confident that regular businesses don’t have much of a chance, simply because of the audiences of StumbleUpon, Digg et cetera, who will have little or no interest in such things.

Plus, the content would probably be more pushy, if anything.

As an aside, I’m running a little test right now to see how high I can rank for: “what is technology”, which has me sat at about 6th place on average with Google, according to Google Webmaster Tools.

So imagine what could be done for a client?

By: Nick James

Nick James — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:52:44 +0000

Great two part post, Wayne. I can see both sides of the coin on this one, and would really love to see any statistics for somebody using social media as their primary marketing on a small to medium client’s site. However, for marketing your own site or blog, particularly in the realms of SEO, etc. I think that social media can be invaluable. Not only that, but it’s a damn sight more interesting than some traditional SEO tactics - actually connecting with real people, as opposed to firing off emails to faceless webmasters.
Great thoughts on the subject. Really enjoyed it.