• More than 2,000,000,000 searches are performed through Google every day
• To date, Technorati has more than 133 million blogs in their database
• In 2009 Twitter exceeded more than 1,360,650,000 tweets
• 700,000,000+ pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month
• Digg receives approximately 38,00 “digs” each month
• 4 years ago Youtube calculated that it would take 412 years to watch every video posted—add to that over 13 hours of video uploaded every minute

Those are impressive numbers. But social media is a grey area that is difficult to explain. It comes in many forms, but some of the main ones include:

• Forums: This is one of the original forms of social media, one that started long before social media became popular. These forums are used for discussion on specific niches.
• Blogs: These are the most well known forms of social media and also the most obvious. They are defined as updated hubs of information that allow viewers to get involved through commenting.
• Image Sharing: Sites such as Flickr, photobukcet, and the newest Pinterest are social sites where users can upload images an allow others to comment on them. They are highly poular.
• Micro-blogging: This form of social media combines blogging and social networking. It only allows users to post small amounts of content at one time by way of a web site or application. Twitter is a micro-blogging site.
• Social Networks: The likes of Facebook, Bebo and Linked are can be referred to as full blown social network sites. They allow users to create accounts that allow many different types of posting including status updates, groups, blogs, and image sharing.

How do you keep track of all of this?

We’ll save that for another day…

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: This is a simple and reliable plugin that will allow visitors to see related posts. This plugin will display itself at the bottom of posts by simply stating: “Related Posts” and then supplying them with a link list of related posts within the site.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/

SEO Smart Links: This plugin will provide further interlinking of site’s pages and posts by automatically creating contextual links within content to other pages using keywords.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/

All in One SEO Pack: Can be used to add keyword specific meta-descriptions, titles, and keywords to individual pages and posts. Without this plugin only the home page could be altered for SEO. This will allow deeper optimization.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Contact Form 7: The absolute simplest contact form with the most features. It can create multiple forms with a variety of different fields. To be used specifically for a contact form—but could also be used to gather information or surveys. All user input is emailed to you when the form is submitted.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

Display Widgets: This is a very simple plugin in whose sole purpose is to decide which widgets display on which pages. This is useful for showing content in the sidebar on the front page and not on other pages and similar possibilities.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/

WPTouch: The most widely used WordPress plugin to detect all mobile devices and display a mobile ready site to viewers.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/

Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will create a full XML sitemap that is spider friendly so site is better indexed by search engines.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/