A marketing blog on social media and SEO

The hot topic in and around the blogosphere has been social networking or social media. Personally, I have been working on getting my readers to particpate in my blog. The author of a marketing blog, britoplan.com explains his thoughts on the 5 distinct characteristics of social media, which are:

• Participation
• Openness, transparency and disclosure
• Conversation
• Community Driven
• Facilitation (facilitating conversations that are already happening online)

Well, like it or not, most of us bloggers are tapping on the power of social media to draw more traffic and get new visitors. Some of us have understood a little of SEO and start to work on link exchanges and working on increasing the page rankings of our sites.

I'm quite encouraged to read from britoplan.com that SEO is not rocket science... the truth is, I am made to believe by some internet marketers that it is! I guess I have much to learn from the author, who happens to be a SEO expert in the bay area for his company. And if you are keen, you can learn some tips from him too.