SEO and SMO

[basha15]

SMO, social media optimization is the process of increasing the awareness of a product, brand or event by using a number of social media outlets and communities to generate viral publicity.

[vishistsingh]

SMO stands for social media optimization and used to attract the number of visitors via Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube, but SEO is the process to increase more traffic for the website and improve website ranking.

[magan]

SEO is process to improve the visibility of a website, through millions of search query. It is active process to optimize the website in order to increase the traffic to the site. In this we work on two campaign one is OFF page and another is On page.

SMO is a effective process which engaged in improving your site's organic search results and it helps to extend the reach of your business and increase opportunities for people to link to your main business page.

[somyasharma]

Search Engine Optimization increase your website visibility on search engine result page. It is one of the best approach that improve your website ranking via organic traffic and visits. Social Media Optimization can be one part of SEO, but it also contribute to all three ways people find you online. It increase your company's presence and online reputation through interactive communities.   

[Monikasahu]

SEO is for optimizing the website so that it can get a top rank in search engines easily whereas SMO is for optimizing the website for getting traffic towards a website by doing marketing for it.

[Harish]

SMO means optimizing your website traffic only through the social platforms & nothing else. In SEO, these are the techniques to optimize the website in every possible ways.

[SanviMalhotra]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine.

Social media optimization (SMO) is the use of a number of social media outlets and communities to generate publicity to increase the awareness of a product, brand or event.

[saanvikadam]

Basically, SEO is the process of improving the visibility of your website to your online audience via search engines. In other words, optimization methods which help improve your website's ability to be listed on the first or second page of organic search results.

SMO(Social media optimization) increases the visibility of your social media profiles, your social networking activity and your published content so that it is found by people searching for information and resources that relate to your content. Social media optimization helps drive traffic to your website or blog, makes it easier for others to share with their circle of influence, builds community around your brand and helps search engines index your social media profiles, social activity and blog posts more easily.

[TomClarke]

Both , SEo and SMO are utilized to increase traffic to a website. However, SEO and SMO are quite different than each other and utilize different techniques to achieve their means. There are many webmasters who claim expertise in SEO and SMO. Their main responsibility is to increase the amount of visitors to a particular website.
Here is the difference:
- SEO is a methodology  of startegies, techniques and tactics used to increase the amount of visitors to a website to obtaimimg  a high-ranking placement in the search results page of a search engine, while SMO is th eprocess of increasing  the awereness of a product, brand or event by using a number of social outlets and communities to generate viral publicity.
- search engines is like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Baidu, DuckDuckGo and others, and for SMO are RSS feeds, social news andbookmarking sites, video and blogging sites, social networking sites and others.
But still, both work to generate traffic on a website or blog.

[Harikrishna Patel]

SMO is a subset of SEO.

SEO is the complete process of improving your website visibility in various search engines. SMO is a part of SEO which can be useful to increase the awareness of a product, brand or event by using a number of social media outlets and communities to generate viral publicity.