facebook, twitter. effective ways to use social media

[itsblitz]

hi, i have been trying to use facebook and twitter to promote my sites and to leave a footprint by dropping links in facebook(my account, fake account, on fan pages and group pages) and the same for twitter, i also have made a facebook fan page to promote my site but i cant get any fans lol, i dont want to spam my friends feeds wall, so is their a correct way to do this, what do you guys/gals do? anyhelp as always is super appreciated because i hear social media is a really important part of seo

[davenewgates]

Join and participate in discussions of groups related to your site, you can also create like contests and reward them or acknowledge users for joining and linking to your site. There's actually many ways on how you can use social media in promoting your site, just don't be afraid to try new things.

[WinYourWayKyle]

I think another thing to keep in mind is make progressive and steady progress...
Like dont expect to get 10,000 followers on twitter overnight...
Becoming popular in social media is something you need to continually work on, and again, I find the best method is to become involved and offer the people reading your stuff something back....Whether that be a content or good info....The visitor needs a reason to come a visit your site...

[cassy]

Nowadays, social media (e.g., facebook, twitter, youtube, etc.) is getting its extensive growth as part of SEO. And it is truly proven that these are such effective ways to create traffic from your site. As for me, i do a lot of ways to gain followers:
1. Finding for an group or individual account related to my site.
2. follow them and their followers (we are joining these sites because we need followers and same with them)
3. promoting your site together with some spice (offering them great bonuses and acknowledging them).
4. like and retweet their post and they will do the same. Social media is just like give and take, you give your vote to them and they will give the same to you.

[Anthony-Coral]

Three sites I'd recommend checking out would be:

MariSmith.com
Hubspot.com
SocialMediaExaminer

All three of them have plenty of free tools, resources and advice on using Fb and twitter in a more effective way and you can sign up for regular updates from each of them - can't recommend them highly enough!

[JoeAdams]

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[Zoorana]

The sites recommended by Hodgeyboy is truly helpful indeed. Using these social networks would certainly make your websites looking up to date. People are curious as to what their family members or friends like on Facebook so it'll surely help to put your sites on these.

However, when it comes down to searching for what you need, people stick to Google to search for what they want. In which case, you have to make your site as interesting as possible to make your targeted visitors come back. Spend all the time you want on these social networking sites but be sure to always add contents to your site. Content is king and you'll truly be respected by Google

[Casinorep]

The key is to constantly update your content. Try to make it conversational rather than posting your ad links (too many pages do this), so that your pages don't appear to be all self promotions, and hopefully you'll have loyal followers who will play through your links.

[shoeshine]

Try create a facebook fan page - I have a facebook page that creates significant traffic for me