Social media optimization Social media optimization ( SMO ) is the use of online platforms to generate income or publicity to increase the awareness of a brand, event, product or service. Types of social media involved include RSS feeds , blogging sites, social bookmarking sites , social news websites , video sharing websites such as Youtube and social networking sites such as Facebook , Instagram , Tiktok and X(Twitter) . Relationship with search engine optimizatio Social media optimization is an increasingly important factor in search engine optimization , which is the process of designing a website in a way so that it has as high a ranking as possible on search engines . Search engines are increasingly utilizing the recommendations of users of social networks such as Reddit , Facebook , Tumblr , Twitter , YouTube , LinkedIn ,...