In the past couple of years social networks have made a huge splash in the internet arena. More people than ever are using services such as MySpace, Blogger, or Facebook.

Let’s admit it. Social web sites are here to stay and they generate tremendous amounts of visitors each day. You as a much smaller website would LOVE to have just a smidge of that traffic coming to you. You’re not asking for millions of visits (although millions would be WUNDERBAR!)

Before we can even discuss the benefits of social media marketing we first need to understand just what the heck it is! These days terms such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and SMM (Social Media Marketing) are being thrown around and just about nobody knows just exactly what they are.

Today, many of the webmasters wakeup with problems of having an operation aborted for the website users browsing through IE 7 for no apparent reason. Hours were spent trying to figure out what happened to their websites and thousands of users around the world thought they had internet problem or even went beyond to formatting their drive.