You left off the part about having to be the copywriter most of the time as well.

Otherwise, Nice post. The lines between social media and seo are indeed melting away faster than an ice cream in hell, social media is playing an ever larger role in building link equity for a client in a really rough industry.

But as daunting as it may seem, do it slowly and do it well, and you’ll be reaping the rewards for years to come.

Soc.Me. has some really cool spin-offs like free focus groups (FaceBook), beta testers (Spin), user generated content (Digg, YouTube) and it helps get dusty pages re-indexed in a snap.

Social media / link building is just another slice of the pie. When considered from the results of increasing exposure and readership, it does just that.

As an added bonus, it also can drop your alexa ranking (if your into monetization) or just flat out scream popularity to search engines, which is yet another metric they use to assess where a site sits in the SERPs.

So, it very much is SEO if the people with blinders on choose to acknowledge it or not. Just a touch of denial perhaps, but they will come around.

I find social media and SEO to be highly complimentary, but they can also serve very different goals / people, too.

As in the link I’ve provided (click my name for more), I also got into a discussion over social media and SEO.

In real terms, SEO is always going to be there for everyone, while social media really only benefits a select few…

1) Link building through social media = SEO

2) Building brand awareness, networking, traffic, etc. = SMM (Social Media Marketing)

Then as Jeff states, all together it’s really just Internet Marketing.

Though, in the end I’m not sure there’s any real definition. Its just a matter of perspective. Its easier then to refer to it all as just internet marketing.