Google’s Marissa Mayer has announced that the company will be launching a new integrated search experience called Universal Search. Web search results will include embeded videos, images, books, news and of course blogs. So if you’re not on the social media marketing bandwagon, you better get started. Could this be the death of plain SEO (search engine optimization)? I believe it will. Sites that currently have high ranking that do not embrace a social media marketing strategy will mostly likely see their ranking drop. For those of you who are currently implementing a social media strategy will be ahead of the game. In order to be and stay visible at the top will require a full circle strategy to include videos, images, news and blogs.

Filed under: Blogroll, Social Media on May 18th, 2007