Social Media is a great way to get free traffic coming to your website. Not only do you get free traffic from the social media sites, but the free traffic coming from the search engines will also increase. This is because a lot of these social media links will count as quality back links. The more back links you have pointing to your website the higher you will rank in the search engines.

Now this does not mean that you should go and just spam the social media sites with your links. This method will never work because people will see you as nothing more than just a spammer. So the key is to develop relationships with people.

Think of Social Media as an actual social event, where you can go and hang out with other people to develop relationships. The more relationships you create, and the more you communicate with them, the popular you will become.

Social media is all about sharing; you share your own content, plus when you come across a website that you like, you share that as well. This way you can add all your content without being spammy, because the other content will naturally balance it out.