Social Networking Blogs are essentially blogs hosted by somebody else that you get to maintain. Here are some popular Social Sites:

• www.HubPages.com
• www.Squidoo.com
• www.Weebly.com
• www.FaceBook.com
• www.MySpace.com

Let’s take the example of Squidoo. Specially Google; and some other engines love this site. At Squidoo you can put your page called as ‘Lens’ If you see, most squidoo pages gets a very good PR(PageRank).

You can use these pages in many ways for getting traffic like promoting your any blog content or for squeeze pages for any affiliate product.

But please before using these sites always check their rules for publishing any content for promoting any kind product. Well, Sites like Squidoo and Facebook will let you be blatantly commercial since they actually like marketers to make use of their sites, but sites lke MySpace and HubPages won’t permit you to do so.

Also, when you write article on your blog; you can update your content at these sites to announce the new article. Give readers a small blurb about the article, and then give them a link back to your main blog so that they can get the full article to read.

I hope you have liked reading the article and will try thie method for getting backlinks which will also provide you some good quality traffic.