Easy Social Media Optimization via Photos

In case you haven't noticed, social media optimization (SMO) is the new big search marketing term. I think you'll be hearing a lot about it this year and thought I'd give you an easy tip to get started. First think you need to know is what social media optimization is. Basically, it's just getting exposure and traffic from social media sites like Digg, del.icio.us, MySpace and many others. For a more in depth explanation, check out the Zooomr, Flickr. Flickr is one of the main photo sharing sites. Once you add your photos, they can be found by not only Flickr but also Serph, the Netvibes and other services that integrate with Flickr. It's a quick and easy way to get in to lots of other sites. To optimize this exposure, each photo should be linked back to your blog post. Here is a Plus, buy outsourcing your image hosting, you save on bandwidth. That's another little added bonus. In the end, social media optimization is the ability to get your site exposure in areas that controlled by people and not by search engine rankings. They give you one more chance of hooking a potential visitor and photo sharing free and easy to do.