Is it possible for a new website to grow and survive without being ranked on a search engine? I believe this is going to be the number one question for 2010. With the tremendous growth in popularity of social sites and social networking in 2009, traditional search may be seeing the beginning of the end of its highly placed relevance. I am not saying search engines are dead, that would be a dumb statement to make. What I am saying is social networks have become a popular way to recommend products, services and ultimately a business website. To see if my thinking is on the right track I am going to start two websites this month and will not perform any of the standard SEO practices. Each site will be launched and then using my personal social networks, I will attempt to get the word to spread throughout each demographic that each site is target toward.
By the end of the year I hope to accomplish several things by doing this:
- Prove to myself that social network marketing is better than painstaking SEO.
- That my social network will spread the word to my friends social networks and so forth.
- That social network marketing can garner enough traffic in each niche to generate income via affiliate programs and Adsdense.
I would like to hear your opinions on social marketing versus search engine optimization.
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