That's 100% True! Social Media is the best tool to create backlinks, just make sure that you do it right because social media like Facebook, Twitter, g+, Instagram and YouTube are sensitive and can detect spam content. Through social media you can get more prospect.
Social media is always a good way to get good backlinks. Especially there are much value from Google Plus, Twitter and Facebook!
Certainly it is. Social Media sites are great way to building backlinks. However Backlinks doesn't have a weightage right now. all is you have a Good Content.
Really, I would have thought they were a great way of gaining some additional traffic? Good content is useless without backlinks ... and vice versa. Junk backlinks won't add any weight (and may work against your site) but good quality backlinks from related and reputable sites have tremendous value!
That's true, but don't forget to get backlinks from high PR and authority website like examiner. You will get traffic also from there. If you can't, call me..
You can get backlinks to your site from many places.Best way is to promote your site to social networks (Twitter, Facebook..), bookmarking sites (Digg, Stumbleupon...), Article directories (Ezine articles, GoArticles...) and web 2.0 (Squidoo, Hubpages...). You will also get natural traffic to your page from users visiting those sites. Or you can buy links from websites like SEOclerks.
It's useful but, you also have to do blog comments, forums posting, audio, video submission, article writing with unique content on high pr sites for more and strong backlinks
First of all let me tell you Social Media are No follow links.Social Media is used to get traffic to your website if your content is good an peoples find it interesting then you will automatically get backlinks which is good and it will also increase the traffic to you site generally Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts.
Writing quality content is the most important thing for having a stronghold on the digital marketing field. Though a content rich with relevant information is not enough, it is equally important creating natural backlinks for a website to stay on the safe side. Basically natural backlinks are created by NOT ONLY SOCIAL MEDIA but the sites, blogs and the social profiles that refer to your site because it has a unique content on some topics and includes a link back to your site as a citation or reference.
Social media optimization good for increasing real time traffic on your website. some social media unique repost or share also count as low authority backlinks like tumblr, twitter, stumbleupon, u can create good content and share on these sites, using different subdomains.
That's 101% false! Because Social Media is not created to create backlinks. It is a medium to interact with each others and share interesting and beneficial content to other members.
social media is not only a way to get backlink only, this is the way to getting high authority and social engagement of your site. As much as you will use social media signal and sharing you will get authority back link.
As most of the guys said here, social media sites don't carry much value. These days most valuable links are guest post / blog post based contextual links. that is why i sell them all the time.