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Ever had anyone try to define SEO?
YIKES !
Is it going to turn to social media marketing?
Go to just about any seo forum and just look through the archives of threads that attempt to address that topic. Clear as mud huh? Here is what was returned by Google for a search for define: SEO

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search,[1] news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.

The circular debates at forums were more focused!
Now, when defining MARKETING, the definitions start to make a LOT more sense. Here is what Dictionary.com says it is:
maráketáing [mahr-ki-ting]

noun
1. the act of buying or selling in a market.
2. the total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer, including advertising, shipping, storing, and selling.

So adding social as a prefix to the word Marketing, doesnŐt really muddy the waters. Social media simply becomes the "market".

The part that is different from SEO is in the fact that SEO is more about the art and science of influencing machines, where social media marketing is about the art and science of influencing PEOPLE using communication skills and tools.

SEO is all about what a spider sees and what an algorithm will do with collected data in terms of displaying that data in response to a search.

Social Media is all about getting a human that has the potential to influence other humans to acknowledge you and or your message in a way that will ultimately add the profits of a commercial enterprise. It may be in the form of branding, overcoming objections, solving logistic issues or making an actual sale, but all those things combined create a brand, authority status, and trust.

SEO does nothing more than putting you at the top of a list of options perceived as relevant to a query. If it's done right

THEN the opportunity to begin the same process as described by the social media paragraph above. Basically, it adds another expensive step to the process with very little, if any, control over the results of that step.

DonŐt get me wrong, I'm not knocking the value of SEO. I've been a pretty darn good one for about 16 years now and I KNOW what the advantage of superior search placement gives an online business. BUT in today's search marketing environment, social media is playing an ever growing role in organic placement AND, if you do it right, you target one and get the other as a bonus. Do you know which one I'm referring to?

That's right. Social Media Marketing!