Facebook and Affiliate Marketing
I have a Facebook account that I sometimes use but I have just created a ‘fake’ Facebook account for affiliate marketing purposes and to see how social networking sites can be used in an affiliate marketing context.
What I plan to do is see if I can add lots of random people I don’t know, join lots of groups relating to some of my niches and then post the odd relevant link here and there to my sites and see if anyone clicks on them. I’m not going to spam random groups and people with my links as this is wrong and there is no point as the traffic will not be targeted and therefore won’t convert. However if one of my ‘friends’ states they are going to buy a new TV I will reply with a link to a TV affiliate site.
Why the fake account? Simple really, I don’t really want my experiments to show up on my main one and all my links to my affiliate sites to be exposed to the world.
Is it ethical? Probably not to be honest. What do you think? Is it stooping a bit too low taking this approach?
we’ve tried this a few times, it works but conversion is really really bad, it works well for things like dating and that kind of thing, but not much else. One of the big problms facebook has is they don’t really know how to make money from it.
I see. I guess the best approach is wait for a topic to come up then post a relevant url. Doest sound very time effective though.