Has anyone found new and interesting ways to use links to social media sites to increase SEO results?

Now a days twitter can able to make more traffic .We are getting more than 25 unique visitors from twitter. Dofollow Blog,Forum comments gives additional benefits .Yahoo answers also a good resource.Use your blog post link in twitter update with appropriate keyword.

Create more and more friends on social networking websites and promote your resources by sharing it with others.

Social media or networking sites can only boost TRAFFIC, they don't have a direct effect on ranking coz they're not a good source of backlinks.

Search Engine optimization is nowadays used with social media marketing as well. Social networks provide quality backlinks for SEO purpose and are great resource for visitors. Few people keep it as a separate part of online marketing strategy and call it social media optimization or marketing.

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Squidoo, hubpages, wetpait are also great to generate good traffic and to get quality backlinks as well.

Well, they say it all but not only socialnetworking all social site is very useful to gain traffic.

Some will gain traffic and some will gain backlinks. Do it all.

Remove the no follow option in your blog .Then it will give back link to your site.Then your site turned into a dofollow.

Just so that everyone is clear, using social networking webpages, and most of the other suggestions described in this thread, as an avenue to enhance a link building strategy is tantamount to manipulating your link popularity and thus considered a Greyhat SEO scheme, in spite of it being both trendy and acceptable (to both the majority of Internet marketers and the most popular search engine).

Unfortunately (what most SEOs and what most corporate and business web site owners do not realize is that) your search engine marketing strategy is a direct reflection of the webpage's corporate image, in spite of it being virtually invisible to the average Internet visitor. Any link generating scheme deployed with the intention of convincing the search engine of the importance of a web page is in fact, cheating.

Take a moment to think about that. Are you willing to tarnish your client's corporate image for the sake of moving up the ranks a few notches? Do you feel comfortable in really explaining the purpose of your link building strategy to your client?

Search engine marketers using these types of link building methods are not SEOs at all, they are linking strategists. It is like comparing Internet marketers to those that generate traffic to a website by streaking nude across the football field at half-time with a URL painted on their butt. Both can be effective but only one can keep his self-respect in tact (unless they are naturally self-deceived, blinded by greed or obsessed with winning by any means).