Comments on: Traffic For a Year - SEO Efforts, or SMO? http://www.100dollarseo.com/traffic-for-a-year-seo-efforts-or-smo/blogging You Get What You Pay For Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:31:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Carlos del Rio http://www.100dollarseo.com/traffic-for-a-year-seo-efforts-or-smo/blogging/comment-page-1#comment-784 Carlos del Rio Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:55:35 +0000 http://www.100dollarseo.com/?p=241#comment-784 "I’ll take any PageRankless and untrusted site that gets lots of relevant traffic under my wing any day of the year." Micheal you are a funny man. I would take that kind of site eight days a week. But, of course, you wouldn't be wasting time on SEO if you already had lots of relevant traffic. “I’ll take any PageRankless and untrusted site that gets lots of relevant traffic under my wing any day of the year.”

Micheal you are a funny man. I would take that kind of site eight days a week. But, of course, you wouldn’t be wasting time on SEO if you already had lots of relevant traffic.

]]> By: Michael Martinez http://www.100dollarseo.com/traffic-for-a-year-seo-efforts-or-smo/blogging/comment-page-1#comment-783 Michael Martinez Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:35:11 +0000 http://www.100dollarseo.com/?p=241#comment-783 From a WEB MARKETING point of view you absolutely need to look at social media, to determine if it can help promote a site. But social media is no more critical to search engine success than submitting a site to directories, dropping links in blogs and forums, and other tactics many people still use. Social media should be engaged for the potential traffic, not for the links. Links are easy to get and you can obtain helpful links more easily than by asking people to click on your blog buttons. People are too obsessed with PageRank and trust. I'll take any PageRankless and untrusted site that gets lots of relevant traffic under my wing any day of the year. From a WEB MARKETING point of view you absolutely need to look at social media, to determine if it can help promote a site.

But social media is no more critical to search engine success than submitting a site to directories, dropping links in blogs and forums, and other tactics many people still use.

Social media should be engaged for the potential traffic, not for the links. Links are easy to get and you can obtain helpful links more easily than by asking people to click on your blog buttons.

People are too obsessed with PageRank and trust. I’ll take any PageRankless and untrusted site that gets lots of relevant traffic under my wing any day of the year.

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