Facebook has recently surpassed 200 million users and is reportedly seeking up to $100 million for additional servers.

I have not gotten any response back from Facebook as to what the issue is but I really hope they get this shit ironed out soon… I cant even get to my Ads Manager to pause my campaigns… Which really sucks because I happen to be doing loads of split testing right now. If you know anything drop a comment or shoot me an email.

Note: If you can still manage your ads I would recommend pausing them if you will need constant access to them.

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.

The way the application works, every time you make a tweet on Twitter your Facebook status is updated. Why is this good? Whenever one of your friends on Facebook logs in they see the people who have most recently updated their status. So if you are constantly tweeting or have a Twitter Bot to do it for you, you will always be at the top of your friends’ Facebook page.

Traffic benefits aside, there are also other aspects to this technique. As more and more people see that you are tweeting away, they may become curious about Twitter and join. Using your account as the catalyst means they are very likely to follow you if they create an account increasing your network and power. And because the new accounts already know you or have some type of relationship with you on Facebook, you have built a stronger social network around yourself.

Go try it and by the end of next week I guarantee you will have an increased followship on Twitter.

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.

Facebook has been put under fire for allowing this little episode to go down. The applications have been changed over to SpeedDate and the users were never asked to opt-in or in other words without their consent. Even after 10 days of user complaints, Facebook has yet to react to the switch. This move also draws attention to Facebook’s extreme lack of control over the actual application code base. The very thing that made Facebooks app platform a success(its openness) could now be coming back to bite it in the ass.

Congrats to SpeedDate however. Im sure that out of the 500,000 people that use the three apps some of them are now using the service. Just another great example of how you can leverage social media. It really isn’t that hard to acquire smaller apps either. One could easily pick up a small app and flesh it out so it becomes more viral and do it on the cheap. Once you have a larger user base, you in effect have a grade a marketing tool that you can apparently change at will.

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!

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.

I just read a post by Shoemoney about Google drastically decreasing people’s AdWords quality score for direct linking their affiliate URLs. There are hundreds of places that you can cloak affiliate URLs with short, better looking, unsuspecting links. What this all comes down to is being smart with where you are sending your traffic (if you want your CPC to remain low…) This is kind of good timing because the next Facebook money maker will be all about landing pages and how they can increase your conversions. Aside from that I am also trying to get some feedback on what people need help with when it comes to making money with Facebook so feel free to comment and ill work it in to the next post.

I would also like to hear from people on whether or not they are having any success on Facebook as I have put some decent information into these posts and anyone who reads them could easily be making some cash money.

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.