Simple answer: SEO brings you targeted traffic, which means you have a very good chance to convert that traffic into costumers.
SMM connects you socially with customers and potencial costumers, gives you a chance to answer the questions, be friends with them and have them share your services with their friends.
So yeah, both are quite important.
In my opinion it's a different kind of growth.
Growth on the web is not defined the same way as growth in a brick and mortar operation. Each new inbound link pointing to a website is a vote of confidence for that website, and month over month as the link profile for a business grows, so does the authority and trust and thereby RANK of that site. A high level of trust on the web equals staying power on the web, which is of incalculable worth to any business.
The New Yellow Pages:
Since Google is now the first point of contact for most customers, and since the first ten positions of Google are searched by 70% of the online searchers, the very fact that a business' website is NOT on the first page for any achievable long or short tail key-phrase, defines numerous new growth opportunity for that business.
People Party:
Businesses always must go where the people are and social media is clearly where the people are. Social media is different from straight up SEO, but works even better to grow a business these days. A business grows it's presence by engaging its fans in a fun, helpful, non hard selling way, the selling takes a back seat and is almost non-existent, this translates again into TRUST which translates into new clients.
There are a lot of other ways... these are just a few
Jeremy
SEOMegaStar.com
We do SEO for various reasons such as- SEO helps to gain visibility of websites or Web Pages , The majority of web traffic is driven by the major commercial search engines - Google, Bing and Yahoo. Although social media and other types of traffic can generate visits to website, search engines are the primary method of navigation for most Internet users. This is true whether site provides content, services, products, information or just about anything else.
Search engines are unique in that they provided targeted traffic - people looking for what you offer. Search engines are the road ways that makes this happen. If site cannot be found by search engines or content cannot be put into their databases, it result in missing out on incredible opportunities available to websites provided via search. Thus I find SEO and SMM very useful.
Good SEO means better results in search engine rankings. There will be more chances of your customers finding you with the right SEO. There's a simple formula for SEO. More backlinks = better results. But you have to be careful. You need contextual backlinks from credible, high PR and web 2.0 websites. To get started, one of great resources is: http://web2.0backlinks.com
Special rates for vistors
seo brings you targeted traffic.
smm connects you socially with gives you a chance to answer the questions,be friends with them and have them share your services with their friends.
social intetactive sites lile facebool ,twitter,linkedln,youtube and others have created an immense impact upon this generation your Business grow.
kamal
Both are good. Both helps to grow the business. SEO Means Search Engine Optimization is the best way to submit your website on Social Bookmarking, Directory Submission, Classified, Article, Forums. It is link building process. SEO helps us to improve Keyword Ranking in Search Engines & Increase Visibility.
SMM Means Social Media Marketing is extensively being used to online Brand Awareness and Campaign through social networking sites like YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and various online social networking sites.
www.e-foreknowledge.co.uk
