Affiliate Marketing With Facebook…Easy
Affiliate Marketing July 27th, 2007UPDATE: This post was written and published about 3 years ago so the information contained within may be outdated. -Brendan 04/06/09
I knew it could be done, just really hadn’t had a stab at it yet. My inspiration came from an article today over at Mashable where Jawad Shuaib says, “my own source of income on Facebook is generated through Amazon’s affiliate marketing.” I thought, ok…let’s give this a go. Facebook doesn’t let you insert HTML or Javascript normally though the ‘Wall’ application or anywhere else really. We’ll have to go third party to find an app that’s going to let us do exactly this. Thanks to Chris Ridenour and Chris Lamping, we now have the HTML Box application (6,098 users) that essentially allows you to “display text, video, music, pictures and more with minimal HTML knowledge.” After adding this app, I then went to one of my affiliate marketing partners, added my facebook profile as a website and potential source of traffic within my affiliate profile, grabbed an advertiser’s code and pasted it in the HTML Box app. Done! I can now potentially earn some ad dollars from Facebook networking, promoting a service I believe in.
P.S. Your Facebook profile traffic will be greater the more groups and networks your involved with.
July 28th, 2007 at 2:10 am
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July 31st, 2007 at 2:16 am
Facebook doesn’t allow paid links on your profile. You can link to an app that has affiliate links or you can link to your site that has affiliate links, but you can’t put an affiliate link in your HTML box.
July 31st, 2007 at 11:11 am
Then how come I have and it works?
July 31st, 2007 at 7:13 pm
It’s in the terms, but I don’t think they have it coded to prevent this.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:01 am
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October 10th, 2008 at 6:31 am
I don’t get exactly how to link an external affiliate to a google app. is there anywhere i can go that shows me exactly how to do this?
im a complete newbe