Interview (part 1 of 2): Click Consult on social media optimization

Last week I wrote a few times about the impact of social media marketing on SEM and posted about some search engine marketing companies that were sharing their opinions regarding social media and search.

One of them was UK-based Click Consult (read the post here), that offers SEM services but also other Internet marketing services.

I decided to interview them about what is called ‘social media optimization’ (SMO). 

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Social media and search engine marketing: “SEO alone is not enough anymore”

Earlier today I wrote about how UK-based SEO Consult highlighted the importance of social media in SEO. I hardly, finished writing my post and in came another message from another search engine marketing agency regarding social media marketing.

This time it was a US-based agency, Submit Express, that got my attention by saying “Shift Happens: SEO Alone is Not Enough Anymore”.

The SEO firm’s Founder Pierre Zarokian will discuss the changes in the SEO market, including the impact of social media, at this week’s SMX West 2010 conference in Santa Clara.

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