How do they do it? They have set up free accounts with sites like, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter etc and have found it to be a great way to get traffic to their website. Up until now it's all been kept hush, hush by the Internet Marketing Guru's who have been testing this method themselves and have found it provides them with lots of free traffic to their websites.

You have to very careful trying to get traffic this way as the social sites do not like you posting your your links all over the place, and if they catch you doing this they will sometimes stop you and you will get banned from using these sites. Let me share with you some of the best ways to get traffic coming to your website, (as we all know traffic is the lifeline of any online business) from these social marketing sites.

You need to be using this method of getting traffic to your website to your advantage because there is a ton of free traffic to be had from it. Internet marketers have found using social sites like Twitter, MySpace etc to be an excellent method in driving traffic to their pages online. One thing you must bare in mind is that social sites don't like internet marketers - so don't spam them or you will loose yourself a fantastic way of getting free traffic.

When you join these sites remember that they are social sites, where friends etc come together to share news and have fun, so let your real self come out and add humour and be a real person and build relationships. The best Social Site that really seams to capture people is Twitter, you can follow people on it and they can follow you in return, you can only leave short message, no more than 140 characters and if its something interesting and they want to know more they will click on any links you put.

Very important you maintain an honest approach, no point pretending your someone you're not, eg. Madonna, Brad Pitt, or your friend and uploading their photo to your profile instead of yours, people want to get to know you and build a relationship with you, be able to trust you, honesty goes a long way.

Have fun! That's one of the great things about social marketing, you can have a lot of fun doing it, meeting new people, learning new stuff and making money from the traffic that you get from it all at the same time.

Don't forget to help others, the more you can help people the more they will help you in return. So add useful links, tips, recommendations to your profiles. Point people in the right direction and answer any questions people post on your profile or contact you.