Without doubt, the single most important thing for social networking sites is to get more targeted traffic to where you want it to go..
With social networking sites, like Facebook and Twitter, you can bring your friends and again, their friends easily to see up your site. Add a link or update of your business to your networking profile. This will encourage those interested in checking up your content. Since social networking is very extensively used today, marketing has become simpler through it.
They help you to get traffic which is unique and real. so they are the source of getting targeted audience to your website.
social networking is not equal to traffic, hard work also plays an important role to get the traffic you want
you can increase visitors for your site as well as becomes popular among people. It happen to me when i meet one of person regarding the hotel booking. He said me that i have seen you profile in facebook.
Hi, Social Networking sites? Are you referring to the Social Bookmarking/Profile websites like multiply.com? webs.com? weebly.com? or blogspot.com? The primary benefit is for SEO purposes, not to actually drive traffic from them. It's one of the easiest way to get backlinks from, that can help you rank better. Again, the more backlinks the better. Note: The functionality and the power of the links from these kind of sites could change at any time, so in building links, the more different types of link you get the better.
Indeed, there are a lot of replies here but only a few mention the concept of getting a targeted audience. Quality is better than quantity and this most definitely true in the social networking sphere.
Submitting your site to various social networking sites is very important on how your site will play on search engine and traffic. Depending on a particular site where you submit your link and and the relevance of your site on where you submit your links. If you submit your links to sites that are related to your site most probably visitors coming from that site would come to your site. And probably will stay.