Anybody drop links on facebook?

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Facebook is so untapped it is making me nervous. Does anyone here drop affiliate links on facebook? I'm wondering the legalities of this and if there is a pretty big chance my affiliate account will be banned.

Aside from the "Don't be a pussy, just do it" responses, does anyone have any wisdom/input/experience in this arena? I guess I'm just wonder how much of a gray area it is and whether or not it is leaning more towards the black or the white.

Thanks

-will
 


I'm guessing it's like MySpace in the sense that if you're caught your affiliate account gets banned.

Afaik it's pretty spam free, there might be a reason for this.
 
If you don't spam, but put relevant links into 'facebook group' forum threads you should be fine.

Facebook users are generally not friend collectors like myspace, so that shit doesn't really work.

Some affiliate networks are happy with that sort of traffic, some aren't. Mike from Copeac has commented here about myspace. (traffic ok, phishing not.)
 
I noticed something though...you can send messages to random people (with affiliate links) no problem except there is a button to report the message as spam. However, if you add them as a friend you can send messages without a captcha and there isn't that "flag as spam" button.
 
wrstroud said:
I noticed something though...you can send messages to random people (with affiliate links) no problem except there is a button to report the message as spam. However, if you add them as a friend you can send messages without a captcha and there isn't that "flag as spam" button.
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So I guess the real question is; how do you get a lot of Facebook friends?
 
Unless you automated it... I suck at php but the add friend url is this:
http://somenetwork.facebook.com/addfriend.php?id=XXXXXXXXX

Just have the script replace the XXX's with a random number and put in a network then add friend...
If I could dominate some php I would do this tonight...
Then once you have your friends added you can automate sending messages to your friend list and since they are your friends, they don't have the option to report as spam...
 
I had a little experiment quite a while back with facebook. They are a lot more on the ball with spam than myspace, I kind of pushed the limits to see what would happen but all my accounts were deleted within a day or so.

It would be possible to exploit if:
- you only sent the messages to friends
- you used multiple accounts (you would need a lot)
- you kept friend requests under a minimum each day or minimum total
- you kept the number of messages under their 'spam limits'
- you randomised the messages/links used

Worth a try for somebody out there...
 
myspace have stopped links counting as backlinks now. they come from "MSPlinks" or something. I used to promote sites rapidly via myspace and get great results. Also iv done it on tagged.com and Hi5.com never really tryd facebook.
The key is to just make an awesome site and then stick affiliate links down the site e.g adwords, adsense, download firefox, hostgator, paypal, 2checkout ect... Then just rince traffic from Digg, stumpleupon, myspace ect... Does great
 
smaxor said:
aren't friend requests on facebook captcha'd?
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No you will only get a captcha if you send a message to someone who isn't your friend, not the actual friend request. Once they are your friend, you can send a message to them without a captcha.
 
wrstroud said:
No you will only get a captcha if you send a message to someone who isn't your friend, not the actual friend request. Once they are your friend, you can send a message to them without a captcha.
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That's not true, friend requests have a captcha but not always. Maybe your account has to be proven non-spammy first or accounts with gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc e-mail addresses instead of school .edu e-mail addresses get the captcha.
 
I'm having a widget built for a site of mine... thinking of hiring a former MySpace, Facebook,etc spammer to place the widget on a shit load of accounts for me. The goal in my case is the traffic, not the backlinks.

Thoughts on that? I'm not spamming comments, but inserting the widget into a lot of account profiles.
 
Reefer420 said:
I'm having a widget built for a site of mine... thinking of hiring a former MySpace, Facebook,etc spammer to place the widget on a shit load of accounts for me. The goal in my case is the traffic, not the backlinks.

Thoughts on that? I'm not spamming comments, but inserting the widget into a lot of account profiles.
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I'd say that's more unethical than spamming comments, considering it involves phishing.
 
znine said:
That's not true, friend requests have a captcha but not always. Maybe your account has to be proven non-spammy first or accounts with gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc e-mail addresses instead of school .edu e-mail addresses get the captcha.
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I have a .edu address...maybe thats why
 
Reefer420 said:
I'm having a widget built for a site of mine... thinking of hiring a former MySpace, Facebook,etc spammer to place the widget on a shit load of accounts for me. The goal in my case is the traffic, not the backlinks.

Thoughts on that? I'm not spamming comments, but inserting the widget into a lot of account profiles.
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Yea I wouldn't do that...
 
I tested a campaign using fliers, which you can buy from them. The display under the nav on the left. I broke even on the campaign and never looked back... maybe there is still some opportunity there?

tob
 
zayd said:
I'd say that's more unethical than spamming comments, considering it involves phishing.
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Why would it be considered phising if the accounts were built w/ an adderbot and not stolen?

I'm sure there are a bunch of people here who have dozens and dozens of MySpace accounts - w/ hundreds of friends each, why couldn't you just post the widget on each account profile, and let the traffic come from there?

I'm very interested to know why this would be so bad...

Thanks!
 
they take spam seriously

##################
One of your customers at XX.XXX.XX.XXhttp://66.90.72.162/ has been maliciously attacking Facebook by scripting event invites with spam messages inside. This is an attempt to send emails to users on our behalf. Approximately 330,000 of these such messages have been generated and detected by our spam-prevention systems.

He has registered 297 dummy Facebook accounts from your IP space during the range 200X-XX-XX to 200X-XX-XX 13:59:40 PST. These accounts were then used to carry out his attempted attack.
######################

This was a message I picked up somewhere... It and similiar ones were sent to ISPs, Hosting Companies, Affiliate Networks, and Domain registrars.
 
hmmm- so having someone post a widget on multiple accounts, even if they created them themselves, could result in my widget being banned from the network?

Even if the widget is not spammy, and meant to be a beneficial addition to someone's profile - the fact that the profiles themselves are created for spamming would be detrimental to my efforts?
 
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