Luckily I started to notice the nuking of the Accai Berry promotions pretty early on so I had a shit load of dating promos and ad copy ready to role. For the month of January NeverBlueAds is holding an affiliate showdown for any affiliate on the network. The affiliate that gets the most eHarmony subscriptions (in certain countries) will win a 50″ Samsung LCD HDTV. I decided to try out some of the offers and pit them against some of my other dating ads to see what would happen. Without even running landing pages and using the provided creatives from NeverBlueAds the offers were converting without much work. They have a bunch of sick offers that can be greatly enhanced with landing pages etc.

One thing I do want to point out is you may have a problem getting your ads through because of the URL redirection. For me, some of the foreign ads kept redirecting to an “international offer” if the traffic was not seen as coming from that specific targeted country. The problem is Facebook Interns could not get to the real landing page so they kept blocking the ads. You may have to use a redirection service that allows you to modify the link after the ad is accepted. Use the eHarmony landing page for your specific country (ex: eharmony .ca, .co.uk, .whatever) as the redirection URL from your redirection service. After the ad is accepted by Facebook, go back to the redirection service and change the end URL to the tracking code provided by NeverBlueAds. As long as your targeted your ads right, you should be in business. Also keep in mind you may want to set a really low bid for your cpc so the ads are not actually showing and costing you money when they are first accepted and don’t have any tracking.

Another weird thing I noticed is that no matter how much you increase your cpc, your impressions don’t seem to climb much in the other countries. Just for fun I set one of my ads at $1.25 cost per click and it got only 1,000 more impressions than an ad I ran at $.55 a click. I most likely wont win the TV, I’m only promoting through Facebook. Make a bunch of money, and win a sick TV.

So over the last couple weeks I got six emails from people asking why their ads where rejected. Five of the six emails where for dating related ads and after getting some more details I noticed that all of the promos where legit. The problem seems to be people are just disreguarding Facebook’s policies and not trying to adhere because they’re to dam lazy. Follow these tips to get your dating ads through Facebook’s approval.

Your Ads MUST Be Targeted
In order to run your dating ads you need to keep them all targeted. “Relashonsip Status” must be set to single, and a single value of EITHER male or female must be selected. The selected age range must start at 18, anything lower and your ads will be rejected. The “Interested In” parameter must also be used and set to a single value of EITHER male or female once again.

Image And Ad Text
When choosing an image, you cannot use anything “provacative” or “innaporopriate.” Obviously this is one of those grey areas that will require some testing. However, if it looks to much like pr0n chances are your getting rejected. Also, the ad text and/or image must “clearly state and represent the company or product that is being advertised.” In other words just make sure the name of the dating service is visible.

Hopefully this will help… Dating ads are totaly still making $$$. Just be creative and you cant go wrong. The sad truth is that there seems to be a never ending number of lonely people out there meaning you will always be able to make money. The hard part is finding a way to make good profits, and adhere to all the policies.

There is quite a bit of buzz going around various outlets about problems with the “Extreme Acai Berry” and “Acai Berry Power 500″ offers from a variety of affiliate networks.

The company behind the offers does not allow traffic from Utah on their website but does not forward this information to the networks. What does that mean? Anyone who is sending traffic from Utah and paying for it are not going to make any of that money back and they will not be compensated because they do not accept orders from Utah.

Might want to disable ads for Utah traffic to be safe.

Okay people, I managed to put together yet another post for Facebook Ads. Now you will learn about testing campaigns and how to tell whether or not you should increase your budget and let your ads loose. The most important factor in this lesson will be how much you are paid for each lead / sale for the item or w/e it is you are promoting.

The first step is to go ahead find your offers, get some ads together, and set a budget to test with. I would say $10 or $15 should be enough for you to get your feet wet… This again will be determined by the offer you are promoting and here is why: Lets say you have an offer that converts at $2.50 a lead for migraine pills and another offer that converts at $22.00 a lead for baby diapers. You get your ads set up and within an hour your test budget has been used for both campaigns and you have some data to work with. If your CPC was an average $.28 cents per click we walk away with around 35 clicks. Lets say that in each campaign, only 2 clicks converted. Offer 1 only made us $5.00 so we ended up loosing $5 on that offer. On our second offer however, those two clicks converted into $44.00, a $34 profit from a $10 test. Not bad!

If you have not figured it out yet, Facebook traffic is very finicky. You can get 100+ clicks a day and only see 1 conversion for a $3.00 lead that cost you $25+ to generate. The big tip here is TEST, TEST, TEST! I have had much more success with offers that take more to complete than simple zip-submit offers. If anyone has questions or ideas for another “MMWF” post let me know!

About four weeks ago I decided to try running a diet offer on Facebook and it ended up working pretty dam good. I promoted the “Pure Acai Berry” offer from NeverBlueAds that converted at $30.00 a sale. Not to shabby.

For the first five or six days I was making upwards of $750 a day. When the second week rolled around it jumped up to around $900 a day and then started to decline very fast. By the end of the third week it dropped to about $200 a day. Average spending on Facebook was around $180 a day for this offer. I woke up Friday to find my ads deactivated and a stern warning from Facebook that these offers are not to be promoted again or risk my account being disabled. After doing some scouring on my other profiles, I noticed a large number of Acai related diet ads were gone… Are they nuking these offers regardless?

The thing is I was sending all the traffic (through my affiliate url cloak) directly to the landing page of the offer. I took an hour or two to get my own landing page and domain together and I now have ads running on Facebook again. They are converting about the same but holding better throughout the day. While I have not seen high spikes in conversions, it has also not gone below $300 since Friday.

I think Facebook is just very picky when it comes to the grey area that is being “deceptive.” Granted the default landing page was a little shady lookin’ but Facebook is just as picky if not more picky than your girlfriend. I recommend to anyone who has trouble getting ads through to invest some time in making your own landing pages.

Anyone else getting anything like this? I noticed there is still an amazingly large amount of diet ads going but I think Facebook might be cracking down after that Muffin Top b.s.

A lot of the time you may want to promote an offer such as a nice e-mail submit that requires some type of program fulfillment in order to receive a ‘free’ gift or whatever. Chances are Facebook will not let it through so how can you slip it by them? Well, why not create an ad that would work with two different offers and then switch the link? It turns out this is a very effective way of sticking it to Facebook.

So now I’m going to get into more of the possibly “Blackhat” techniques. Chances are you already have some type of method set up for masking / redirecting links to your affiliate URLs. The key for this technique to work is you must be able to change were the link is redirected to. So using a service that you cannot change the redirection location on will be of no help to you. Best bet is to use .htaccess or your own redirect scripts.

Once again I will give you an EXAMPLE THAT WORKED 100%. I was trying to promote a simple e-mail submit car insurance offer that Facebook would simply not allow through. So, after some thinking I wrote up an add for saving money on car insurace and set my masked link to redirect to Geico’s information page. As it turns out the ad I made coincidentally worked for an offer I had. First page e-mail submit for car insurance quotes. Facebook of course approved the straight up non affiliate link to Geico and then I quickly changed the redirect from Geico to my affiliate link for the other offer.

Simple enough huh? Once again the whole idea is quite simple. All you need to do is think outside the box people and the money will jump right into your pockets.

We hear it all the time, “Social media clicks are not worth dick…” and for the most part I would agree. When it comes to Facebook, you have to keep tight tabs on your CPC rates that you run across your ads. I have done much better slashing my CPC for less impressions, but better profits. Granted you will not see as many possible clicks because you loose impressions, but if your ads are converting well and your commission is not that high, why pay Facebook’s recommended $.60 > CPC? One of the biggest things you can experiment with is your CPC and finding the right cost per click seems to be a balancing act on Facebook.

I myself like to start high and work my way back down in price to a point were I am getting decent impressions, and a much lower CPC. Lets look at this example of some ads that I am testing. You can see that Ad One has a CPC of $.30 and got 24,048 impressions for a total cost of $4.32 for 18 clicks. Now by simply raising the CPC by six cents, I got 44,372 impressions (nearly double) and 59 clicks! Yeah the total cost is more ($17.56) but its irrelevant. For this particular offer I got a 10.00% conversion rate based off this small test. At $3.75 per lead, you do the math. This in my book was a successful test, the next step is to fine tune the CPC and expand my demographic (offer permitting.)

The Bottom Line
As you can see something as small as $.06 can make a big difference on your traffic and visibility. Don’t be afraid to jump in and shake things up. The whole point of having all of the statistics is so you can fine tune your ad performance. I also want to add that the recommended CPC for those ads was up in the $0.61 range. Facebook wants your money, be smart and test before going big, before you know it you will be rocking the $1,000 limit as well.

So now that you know what you want to promote, its time to generate some ads! It seems like Facebook is getting even more strict with their ad guidelines so you may be finding it difficult to get your ads through approval. The guidelines that they operate under basically give them loopholes to block pretty much anything you send their way. Here are some quick tips to make sure your ads get through the manual approval process and save yourself some time.

1. Stay Away From Free Titles
I have found that 99% of the time if you have free in the title of your ads, they will reject it. This can however be swayed by the offer. For instance if you had a buy one get one free ad or something it would probably be okay, but pushing freebies that require program sign-ups etc. most likely wont work. Your best bet on freebies is to be direct with what they are getting, and what they need to do. Try to be more creative with your titles.

2. Don’t Use Symbols as Substitutes
This is a tip that will hopefully save some people time… It sucks waiting for a bunch of ads to be approved and then you find out they did not make it because of a little technicality. One mistake people make is they try to use symbols to cut down on their character count. For instance using “Save $ On…..” will not make it through the approval system under guideline 7 of Facebook’s policy you would need to use “Save Money On….”

“All symbols, numbers and letters must adhere to their true meaning. Symbols may not be used to substitute for words or letters for emphasis or to reduce character count.“

3. Catching on to Cloaking?
I have a feeling Facebook has a strong idea of whats going on with dev cloaking. If you are cloaking your ads for Facebook manual reviews watch your traffic closely as they are getting smart.

4. Don’t Bother With Downloads
Don’t even try putting download related ads up… I have yet to get one of the xxx’s of variations through approval. They do not allow it and even though those Zwinky toolbar offers convert so well, I don’t think we’ll be seeing them on Facebook any longer.

5. Keep Pushing Your Ads
Even if you ad did not get approved, you may still have a chance. If you ad complies with all of Facebook’s ad guidelines then keep submitting it. Once and a while I can get zip submits etc. through by resubmitting a few times. It also seems like your CPC could influence it under manual review circumstances. There has been a few times were I have done nothing but raise my CPC to $0.99 and the same exact ad that got rejected now gets approved, then I just lower it down to my normal CPC. It could be totally unrelated to the approval but I found it odd.

For the first post of ‘Make Money With Facebook’ I think it would be best to start with finding offers to promote. For this you will need to be a member of an affiliate network. As far as Facebook goes, I and many others have found that NeverBlueAds have many programs for making serious cash.

Getting Signed Up
Head over to NeverBlueAds and get your account set up, this can take a few days depending on your experience level and credentials you supply them with. Alternativly you can use other networks but for the sole purpose of not getting too confusing I will use NeverBlueAds for my examples.

Finding Promotions
Now the question I see the most of is “what are teh best programs to promote on Facebook???” The answer is simple. The targeting features on Facebook allow you to really target certain age groups well so take advantage of it. Ads that seem to convert the best are Email Submit, Zip Submit, etc, but can also be hard to get through the approval system. To be generous I will even give you a money making example: Knowing that the highest percentage of coffee drinkers are between the ages 25 and 39, you could target that age group and display ads for the Gevalia gourmet coffee club. Touting its free blender, two boxes of coffee, and stainless steel travel mugs I was making a decent profit off this just last week… It was not converting as well as I wanted it to though.

Also keep in mind that Facebook has some pretty tight guidelines and anything that involves downloads or could be considered “misleading” will have a tough time making it through approval.

I really don’t understand why Facebook has this feature… Let me paint you a picture real quick.

So last night I am going through NeverBlueAds looking for some possible promos that would work well on Facebook. NeverBlueAds has some awesome offers so it did not take long. Within 20 minuets I had my campaign set up on Facebook with 10 ads running. About three hours later the ads are approved and running. I already had 56 clicks and after checking NBA I noticed that 21 of them had converted at $3.50. Not bad!

About an hour later I was up $200 bucks and then I started to noticed my clicks die down. A quick check of the ad board brought up countless ads for the exact same promo. Within 2 1/2 hours of being approved I got swiped.

I think if Facebook wants to keep people happy (and spending their money there) they need to get rid of this retarded ad board… Whats the use of spending $500 a day in clicks with 1,000,000 ads for the same thing running against you?