Increasing your brands SEO and visibility, social seeding is a simple and efficient way to drive traffic to your site and spread content.
Raising your businesses awareness by intelligently positioning essential information amongst the various other feeds of your target audience, seeding strategies have the power to promote your brand globally and seamlessly.
The secret to creating content which can be seeded and networked widely is identifying a succinct aesthetic tailored to a specified network. Seeding takes place across a wide range of networks from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit to wider outlets including TikTok, Medium, Snapchat, all tailored to the age and interests of your audience. Always be sure of the relevance of your posts ensuring that the tone of voice or filter used aligns with your campaigns mission statement.
Don't chase a look or feel you want to associate with simply for its own sake, settle into who you are as a brand; This will ensure a confident message relevant to you and your market. The entire aim of seeding as a marketing exercise is to ensure that your post is recognised and reposted to add value to your audiences own platform.
The main goals you should aim to achieve include convincing your targeted network that your content is validated and their affiliation with your brand adds value to their own. Seeding creates a quiet ever-presence. The noise made by supporters and followers on your behalf makes more of an impact than self-promotion could ever achieve. Social seeding is one of the lowest cost, high impact tactics accessible to every brand, regardless of how it is established. The most successful seeders will enable their content to go viral, which in layman's terms means an article, post, image, video or blog which will trend on varying platforms, racking up views and follows in their millions.
If your goal is to try to achieve viral status, and ultimately it should be through every piece of content, attach your post to a unique hashtag. This straightforward metadata tag will encourage recognition of your profile, nurture customer loyalty and trademark an advertising campaign organically.
So what next? Formulate a plan! Establish the network you want to seed your content within. Comprehensively analyse what demographic will be most stimulated by your content. Research your competitors and adopt some of the strategies and language they use which is responded to positively online. Integrate yourself into the community of potential customers you want to engage with. Use confident wording and ensure the energy is in line with your aesthetic.
You do not want to either bore or patronise your audience. Once you have networked your content, keep a close tab on how the post is received from comments to shares and likes.
And it really is that simple! Now go forward and scatter your social seeds far and wide!
