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Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, 6th Edition
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Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, 6th Edition

by Michelle Krasniak
May 2025
Beginner
736 pages
18h 27m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Leveraging SEO for Improved Visibility

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding why SEO still matters

Bullet Looking into the top search engines

Bullet Focusing on the SEO basics of keywords and metatags

Bullet Optimizing your web presence for search engines

No matter how popular social media may be, search engine optimization (SEO) must still be a part of your toolkit for a successful, broad-spectrum web presence. The goal of SEO is to get various components of your web presence to appear near the top — preferably in the top ten — of search results on general search engines or specific social media services.

You accomplish this by selecting appropriate search terms or keywords and then optimizing content, navigation, and structure to create a web page or profile that’s search friendly for your selected terms. At the same time, you maximize cross-links from social media to increase the number of inbound links to your primary website.

Fortunately, you can optimize social media, from blogs to Facebook, very much the same way that you optimize a website. Some people call this social media optimization (SMO), ...

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