The social media networks emerged as a powerful resource for search engine optimisation campaigns in 2009. The SEO world may be talking a lot about the benefits of social media optimisation and marketing, but a smart business needs to know the cold, hard facts. The statistics for social media at the end of 2009 indicate that social media is a growing force that is only likely to get more powerful. Social media participation was by no means unusual before 2009, but last year was something of a boom year for most social media networks. One thing that 2009 revealed was More >