Social networking websites have millions of account holders. These include both individual and businesses account. Because of that, social media websites act as a very useful source to get free web traffic and customers. They are the best place for business, for people to meet and connect with each other.

First, you can post your website in social media websites. As most major search engines recognize the popularity of social websites, by posting your website like in the social websites, you can increase the ranking of your website in the search engines. Every backlink that you obtain from these social websites would contribute to your website's search engines rankings.

Second, you can advertise on the social media websites by signing up for a pay-per-click program. This is a cost effective marketing strategy as you stand a good chance to get traffic to your website. But when you do this, you must monitor the cost and conversion rate of the advertisement. Leaving it run by itself may bust whatever advertising budget that you have without generating sufficient income for you.

Third, you can increase the viewing rate of your website by participating in various groups, forums and discussion at the social media website. Leave your post or comments. Include your website links in the comments or post in these forums or discussion and invite the users to visit your websites. That would certainly help to get traffic to your website.

Fourth, with social networking websites, you would also have the chance to network with other top marketers of your niche market. You can offer them some service, share with them information and maybe work together with them in exchange of them putting a link back to your website. That way, you would be able to get free web traffic to your website.

A wise word for you is, you should install tracking mechanisms on your marketing campaign through social networking. That is to help you to make an accurate evaluation on which marketing strategy or technique works the best. From there, you need to revise, fine tune and improve the strategy or technique to get greater free web traffic.