All promotion activities done using various Social Media applications in order to generate website traffic are called Social Media Optimization services.
Examples of popular Social Media applications include:
Social Networking Websites: Facebook, Orkut, Bebo, MySpace, etc.
Micro-Blogging Services: Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr, etc.
Blogs: LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, etc.
Social Bookmarking Websites: Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, etc.
Multimedia: YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, etc.
Q&A Forums: Yahoo Answers, Google Answers, Wiki Answers
These were just some of the examples. Unbelievable isn’t it?






