Viral Marketing and Search Engine Optimization have the same motive- and that is to bring traffic to your website/blog. Both work on the same goal but have a slight variation in their strategies

There are three free ways to drive traffic to your site/blog- Organic(that is through Search Engines), Referral(that comes from your links that are on other websites), and Direct(where user types your URL directly into the address bar). How much traffic comes to your website organically depends on how well you have optimized your website for your keywords. For the latter two depends on how many people find your site useful, relevant and usable. Viral Marketing makes others link you extensively, hence increasing your Referral Traffic.


Search Engine Optimization is good for your website/blog’s overall ranking and placement in Search Engine Result Pages(SERP). But if you want to be in top slots of Alexa ranking, you should think virally. To be effective, you should put your viral stimulators at the main nodes, which have their own roots and ways from where your viral marketing propagates automatically. Search engine marketing is just one of the point, where every visitor you get from search engines should take you a step ahead

This may sound offensive but sometimes you should think like a virus, and get inspired by the way it grows. Your growth should never be parasitic, but you should know how to multiply your results by putting in strategic efforts.


Search Engine Optimization on the other hand makes your site more spider likeable. Those tiny creatures crawl your site to check its relevancy so that it can pop up in the SERPs for the related search. Creepy but profitable. It increases your Web visibility, Theme based page rank, and the much obvious after all that traffic

The title may suggest that either of the two will have a winning hand. At a certain level both are very interconnected, like link baiting is one advance or more refined way for your viral link building, which is also a part of your viral marketing for search engine.

For any business establishment, to be successful, it must carry the viral self propagating feature from the starting

It all started from Hotmail, whose proprietors coined the term viral marketing

It’s not just the buzz, but the hidden ingredient of benefit put deep inside your whole viral idea is what pushes it best. Viral feature is established from the point it started. It benefits the person when he forwards it. Each promotion should carry a direct benefit for the promoter as well as for the person he promotes it to.


Points to start your viral marketing

Viral marketing best works when it starts from the time it s first contact of their prospects.


1. Freebies- “Free” is the most powerful word in a marketer’s vocabulary. All viral practices are
mostly free of cost, inexpensive is good, free is better. Free reports, free “buttons”, free
information, free software which have powerful features. Though Paid Stuff has better
quality but free stuff is more useful for the first impression.
2. Be Creative- Innovative ideas in your ezine, will make your ezine more popular and wanted
in your niche.
3. Have your very own affiliate system structured, so that promoter gets benefited for
promoting you.
4. Getting to the nodes. Promote your Big Viral Idea through Pushed Press releases, doing
worthy JVs.
5. Anything that is cool, tells how easy, how beneficial and profitable it is to be part of your
business or being customer of your business.
6. Be first; be innovative by attacking the biggest problem brings in the best viral marketing
features to your business.


Think different think viral

Many case studies can be found on this. Hotmail with its first ever-free email just tagged “Get your free email” at the bottom of each email sent. Similarly when most music companies were under big losses, even Rhapsody and Napster were not making good business, Apple i-tunes made a record business by bringing viral features at their business i.e half a million songs downloaded in just two days

Viral marketing can make your website optimizations more powerful, lot more effective, and is must

Warning: Any Viral Strategy would fail if Search Engine Optimization is left behind. Search engines bring those first visitors to your site/blog, that will be the starting node of Viral Marketing.