Power Tip of The DAY: SMO - Social Media Optimization

[Vincent Wright]

Now here's one to keep your busy eyes on: SMO (Social Media Optimization)!

"Huh?", you say … "Vincent, I'm just now getting use to understanding RSS and SEO and SEM and now you want me to understand "SMO", too? (I kinda had fun writing "SMO" at the end of that sentence! )

Well, as I understand it, SMO is cool, simple, and invaluable to you and your social networking missions.

Rohit Bhargava is credited with inventing the term SMO.

You can find Rohit on Linkedin at:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitbhargava

Rohit's five rules of Social Media Optimization are:
1. Increase your linkability
2. Make tagging and bookmarking easy
3. Reward inbound links
4. Help your content travel
5. Encourage the mashup

A few interesting sites in the early development of Social Media Optimization:

1. http://social-media-optimization.com/
2. http://www.smomashup.com/
3. http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/smomashup/
4. http://smogger.wordpress.com/
5. http://www.socialmedia.biz/
6. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/social-media-optimization-13-rul...\
4/
7.
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2006/08/13/rules-of-social-media...\
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8. Digg.com
9. Del.icio.us
10. Technorati.com
11. Flickr.com

To find out more about Rohit Bhargava's 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization, visit: http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2006/08/5_rules_of_soci.html

I wonder if we can apply any or all of Rohit's five rules to Linkedin?

What say you?

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Vincent Wright
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