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		<title>Social engine optimization (SEO) vs. social media optimization (SMO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of using a variety of techniques, including content production and link-building strategies, to make your website as appealing as possible to search engines. When performing SEO tactics, you will focus heavily on your website, and inbound and outbound links. Social media optimization (SMO) is the practice of using [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blog.seowhat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/SEO-SMO-Yin-Yang.jpg" rel="lightbox[2879]"><img src="http://blog.seowhat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/SEO-SMO-Yin-Yang-150x150.jpg" alt="SEO &amp; SMO Yin Yang" title="SEO &amp; SMO Yin Yang" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2880" /></a> <strong>Social engine optimization</strong> (SEO) is the practice of using a variety of techniques, including content production and link-building strategies, to make your website as appealing as possible to search engines. When performing SEO tactics, you will focus heavily on your website, and inbound and outbound links. <strong>Social media optimization</strong> (SMO) is the practice of using social media sites (Facebook, MySpace, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) to drive more traffic to your website, which in turn boosts your SEO rankings. SEO and SMO can work closely together, and for an ideal relationship between your website and search engines, you shouldn&#8217;t do one without the other.</p>
<p>Want more information on SEO and SMO? Let SEOwhat.com help! Contact us about <a href="http://www.seowhat.com/seo-search-engine-optimization.html">search engine optimization</a> and <a href="http://www.seowhat.com/social-media-marketing.html">social media optimization</a> today.</p>
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		<title>Google Plus &#8211; who is it for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C7 - Catherine Seven - SEO Ninga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have begun adding our clients biz pages to G+&#8230; Why? Well it&#8217;s google and we almost feel like we have to&#8230; But is it worth it for the clients? My clients are constantly asking, &#8220;Will this help me? Do I need to be on here?&#8221; my first inclination is to respond with, &#8220;It&#8217;s google, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="clear: both;" align="left">We have begun adding our clients biz pages to G+&#8230; Why? Well it&#8217;s google and we almost feel like we have to&#8230; But is it worth it for the clients?</p>
<p>My clients are constantly asking, &#8220;Will this help me? Do I need to be on here?&#8221; my first inclination is to respond with, &#8220;It&#8217;s google, you almost feel like u have to&#8221;, but as of right now I don&#8217;t see a use for business to consumers on google pages.</p>
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<p>I see why you would want to add a local page, then shake hands with google places, as this will enhance your local optimization. But what about for a non-places client, that is just a brand, community?</p>
<p>Right now google is on spam look out and they don&#8217;t have much in search results past 2007. So if you make a Google Plus Page to get a &#8220;presence&#8221; what&#8217;s to say google&#8217;s eyes won&#8217;t say it&#8217;s over-saturation and dink you for it.</p>
<p>If you have an amazing following already on twitter/Facebook and your Mark Zuckerberg or Lady Gaga, it&#8217;s given that you already know you&#8217;ll have a positive hit on google plus. But if you have a local individual, or a popular, but &#8220;normal&#8221; everyday business that actually has a good following on Facebook and then you try and move them to G+ aren&#8217;t u confusing the consumer? Plus adding additional staff to keep it fresh for real-time indexing, isn&#8217;t an option for everyone, and trying to manage yet another unique content post yourself is about enough to drive anyone insane. Plus, what happens if you have a facebook page, and a G+ page, and you&#8217;re adding news to both, and then you announce the same thing, are you going to get duped for duplicate content? I could go on&#8230;</p>
<p>Google if you want to tap into social circle your doing a great job for news and photographers but Google, please tell us what you want? If you want us to stop using FB and use G+, then buy Facebook! You acquire a few companies a month, why not add this to your list? Or better yet, let FB be FB, and you be search. Reminds me of last year when Bing started the commercials.</p>
<p>Sorry for my rant, but Google please tell us what&#8217;s in it for my medium to smaller size companies. In the meantime, to answer the questions I keep getting, &#8220;do I need to be on Google Plus? Open a profile page?&#8221; Beware once u go that your email address associated with your profile will expose you and all your glory hehehe<br />
Just know its nice, it&#8217;s fun, it&#8217;s clean but all your personal buddies are not there, unless you&#8217;re in news, photography or a celeb stocker ,)</p>
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		<title>Less is more&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://blog.seowhat.com/2011/11/30/less-is-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C7 - Catherine Seven - SEO Ninga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Black Friday / Cyber Monday is making a comeback and we are seeing consumers getting there numbers back, what does that leave the Dot Com&#8217;s&#8230; Many people have been hurt by the new wave of how Search is going to work, so its here and now we need to adapt! Google doesnt want [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that Black Friday / Cyber Monday is making a comeback and we are seeing consumers getting there numbers back, what does that leave the Dot Com&#8217;s&#8230;</p>
<p>Many people have been hurt by the new wave of how Search is going to work, so its here and now we need to adapt!</p>
<p>Google doesnt want MORE MORE MORE, I think they want less, they want a clean site, they want &#8220;clean code&#8221; Bot&#8217;s cant index a mess&#8230;</p>
<p>Google wants consistency  with a site, it wants sites to be relivant, and if you do sell everything under the moon, then make sure its catergoried, orngaized, and not scattered, Google watches your click trails so make sure your site is easy to navigate and find the way to the checkout!</p>
<p>Cat&#8217;s Thoughts of the Day!</p>
<p>What are you seeing in the search changes?</p>
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		<title>Internet Marketing, SEO and Web Design Firm Opens New Office</title>
		<link>http://blog.seowhat.com/2010/04/21/internet-marketing-seo-and-web-design-firm-opens-new-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C7 - Catherine Seven - SEO Ninga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet Marketing, SEO and Web Design Firm Opens New Office SEO services firm increases rankings for ecommerce, corporate web sites, using SEO, SMO and Google Optimization MANKATO, Minn., January, 2010 – SEOWhat, an Internet marketing, SEO services and web design firm today announced its new office in Mankato, Minn. Located at 709 S. Front Street, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Internet Marketing, SEO and Web Design Firm Opens New Office</strong></p>
<p><em>SEO services firm increases rankings for ecommerce, corporate web sites, using SEO, SMO and Google Optimization</em></p>
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<p><strong>MANKATO</strong><strong>, Minn., January</strong><strong>, 20</strong><strong>10</strong> – SEOWhat, an Internet marketing, <a href="http://www.seowhat.com/">SEO services</a> and <a href="http://www.seowhat.com/web-design-services.html">web design</a> firm today announced its new office in Mankato, Minn. Located at 709 S. Front Street, Mankato, MN, 56001, SEOWhat.com helps companies design, build and market their web sites, specializing in both on- and offline search engine optimization, and Google and Yahoo ranking.</p>
<p>“Our new year’s resolution here at SEOwhat is to amplify our clients’ success and with the opening of our new headquarters office, we have a head start on meeting these objectives,” said Catherine Seven, founder, SEOWhat.com. “In the past year, we’ve achieved many accomplishments as a company and we hope to continue celebrating future successes with our clients.”</p>
<p>SEOWhat.com helps clients improve search ranking through a combination of search engine optimization strategies that include, but is not limited to, social media optimization/Web 2.0, social bookmarking, press release and article writing and submission, on page, off page optimization, niche keywords, long-tailing, link building, meta tagging, Yahoo! merchant sites (Y! Stores), YouTube/video submissions and more.</p>
<p>Ranked best in Social Media Optimization (<a href="http://www.seowhat.com/smo-social-media-optimization.html">SMO</a>) by TopSEOs, SEOWhat.com creates buzz through the use of social networking tools such as blogs, social bookmarking sites and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The full service agency provides a la carte or full service SEO strategies tailored to the needs of B2C, B2B, products and services, businesses, educational and not-for-profit organizations. With a talented team of web engineers, graphic designers, copy writers, editors and online/offline marketers, SEO What is the only competitively priced firm of its kind that is based entirely in the U.S.</p>
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<p><strong>About SEOWhat</strong><strong>, Inc.</strong></p>
<p>SEO What is an <a href="http://www.seowhat.com/">SEO services</a> agency that helps companies navigate the dynamic world of internet marketing, integrating search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), social media optimization (SMO) and Web site design to increase a site’s visibility. Specializing in Yahoo! and Google optimization, S E O What develops search friendly Web sites on a variety of platforms including Yahoo! Stores, WordPress and custom built sites. In addition to Google SEO, Seowhat provides organic search results, without the price tag, creating powerful web sites that appeal to human eye and search engines alike.</p>
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		<title>SEOWhat.com Blog Available on Amazon Kindle</title>
		<link>http://blog.seowhat.com/2010/04/11/seowhat-com-blog-available-on-amazon-kindle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C7 - Catherine Seven - SEO Ninga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANKATO, Minn., April 11, 2010 – SEOwhat.com, Inc., an award-winning SEO services, web design and internet marketing firm, announced that its blog posts on SEO tips and social media buzz is available on Kindle, a wireless reading device sold by Amazon.com. The SEOWhat.com blog is a subscription available through the Amazon Kindle Store. “As a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MANKATO, Minn., April 11, 2010 – SEOwhat.com, Inc., an award-winning SEO services, web design and internet marketing firm, announced that its blog posts on SEO tips and social media buzz is available on Kindle, a wireless reading device sold by Amazon.com. The SEOWhat.com blog is a subscription available through the Amazon Kindle Store.</p>
<p>“As a Kindle fan, I’ve come to rely daily on the feeds and documents I can access on the device,” said Catherine Seven, founder, SEOWhat.com. “Having our company’s blog selected as a feed for Kindle means that anyone can get our SEO tips and tricks, even if they’re not at their computers. Our leadership in social media optimization and Seo has attracted customers and followers, and now that readership includes users of Kindle.”</p>
<p>The SEOWhat.com blog features daily useful and practical tips about increasing a web site’s organic search ranking, effectively using design and navigation to improve a site’s searchability and using social media to generate buzz. The Kindle subscription to the SEOWhat.com blog is available at http://www.amazon.com/Tips-Social-Media-Buzz-Blog-SEOwhat-com/dp/B003E7FIW6.</p>
<p>Ranked best in Social Media Optimization (SMO) by TopSEOs, SEOWhat.com creates buzz through the use of social networking tools such as blogs, social bookmarking sites and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The full service web marketing agency provides a la carte or full service SEO strategies tailored to the unique needs of its clients. With a talented team of web designers, developers, copy writers, editors and online/offline marketers, SEO What is the only competitively priced firm of its kind that is based entirely in the U.S.</p>
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