What does viral marketing mean? Same thing as Search Engine submission?

Question

Soooo.....how does one come up with a viral marketing campaign for a website.....just try to get creative on your own, or are there training sites out there for this sort of thing? Someone told me recently that viral marketing was vital to getting any real traffic to your site.....I am definitely NOT a marketing expert....but have a site I need to get promoted somehow, to sell my products....on a LOW BUDGET!

Answer 1

No - viral marketing is something that catches people's attention so much that they are compelled to tell their friends or forward it to others. Viral marketing = creating word of mouth referrals or generating buzz.

http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid11_gci213514,00.html

Answer 2

viral marketing is a marketing technique that makes people pass on the information or ad voluntarily, like when they saw a cool video clip, email or text message

search engine submission is the process of submitting your site to search engines for it to be included on their search result.