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Blogging To The Bank 2011 Review

What is Blogging to the Bank 2011?

Blogging to the bank 2011 is a blogging blueprint by Rob Benwell and part of his blogging course series that he is delivering from last two years. He over delivers every time and this time I am seeing even more quality in his on going series.

Blogging to the bank 2011 is a complete blogging course and isn’t full of fluff or filler… It gets direct to the point and the step-by-step process to setting up your own profitable blogs using a unique system. It also shares the ‘MONEY TACTICS’ used to raid the market for millions. It’s easy to follow so even someone new would be fine following along.

I was lucky enough to secure an early copy of the system so I could test it out and give it an honest review. I must say it’s unlike anything else on the market. The site, although it seems like hype is honest and true… This system really does work on autopilot and the earnings are REAL!

Who is Rob Benwell?

Rob Benwell is an internet marketer belongs to UK that makes his most of the money from blogging . He has been teaching blogging tactics to people since 2006 and has helped over 100,000 people so far. He keep on testing new methods every month to see what’s working right now and share the same to help everyone earning money from blogging.

My Results with Blogging to the Bank 2011

I’ve been testing it form last 1 month since I got my hands on it. I opened a new clickbank account for this to keep it separate.

Well I’m honestly amazed… I’ve actually made $1,404 in the first week.


I was shocked at how you can start earning money in the first 72 hours after going live. I didn’t expect this but I can honestly say this is the one product I’d recommend 100% if you need money fast and don’t want to wait months for results.

Rob really isn’t been hypey when he says this site will be the most important you visit all year. Now, there are only 250 copies available so it may have sold out by now but if not then grab a copy while you can.

Conclusion:

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Facebook Vs. Google


rom Entrepreneur: Many top blogs, including social news site Mashable.com, continue to focus on the effectiveness of pay-per-click advertising through Google's ever-popular search and content networks. But new advertising platforms are on the scene--from social sites like Facebook to high-traffic blogs--and they offer a more targeted advertising approach. Google is having a difficult time trying to compete.

The reason is social sites offer better targeting with keywords and demographic-specific ads. Think about the manner and type of information Facebook gathers. While Google knows you're in the market for a new home, Facebook knows what causes are important to you, which videos you like to share and how often you make recommendations to your friends. Social media advertising opportunities are yielding better-qualified, higher-ROI results compared to the Google ad network.

Additionally, Facebook recently announced that Bing is now the default search engine for its more than 400 million users worldwide, which puts the site in a position to enhance its advertising model even more. By offering search on the site, Facebook is now able to gather data that it can leverage immeasurably in the world of advertising: the way people think, what they care about and how this leads them to buying decisions.

Google's model is still effective, but this newer platform includes psychographic information--attributes relating to personality, values, attitudes, interests and lifestyles (also known as IAO variables). This is putting the pressure on Google to provide a similar service. The bottom line is, if you can display your ads to a (more precisely) targeted demographic, your click-through ratios will improve.

Regardless of the pay-per-click advertising model you choose, there are three things you need to do before you invest:

  1. Determine who you are targeting
    With Facebook, you can get very specific with your keywords and filter by location, interest, age level and group or cause involvement. With Google, you have the ability to present an ad based on what someone is searching for right now, ready to buy.
  2. Do a test campaign
    If your budget allows, compare and test both platforms. As little as $100 each placed in PPC or CPM (cost-per-thousand) advertising on Facebook and Google is usually enough to reveal the difference in impact between specific and general targeting for your audience.
  3. Determine which PPC model works best for your business
    Just in case you need a refresher on the two "pay per" models:
  • CPC: Cost-per-click advertising allows you to pay for each click your ad receives. If you agree to pay $1 for each click, five clicks will cost you $5.
  • CPM: Cost-per-thousand (M is the Roman numeral for 1,000) advertising allows you to purchase a set amount of impressions. An impression is a single instance of an ad appearing on a web page. If your ad appears twice on one view of the page, that's two impressions.

    Remember that click-throughs aren't everything. Even an unclicked (but viewed) ad can play an important role in promoting your company by way of exposure. Too many marketers overlook the potential of CPM-based advertising. Keep in mind that targeted advertising greatly increases the overall effectiveness of your ad.

Here's a quick comparison of the Facebook and Google models to help you determine which is best for your business.

Keyword Targeting
Facebook: Targeting with keywords is optional
Google: Keyword specification is required

Targeting Details
Facebook: Can target by location, keywords, interest, workplace, birthdate and/or age
Google: Can target by location and keywords

Ad Placement
Facebook:
Direct to users right on their profile page
Google: Ads are often placed on obscure, undisclosed websites

Market Saturation
Facebook:
It's a newer platform, so fewer advertisers
Google: Crowded, it is still one of the top-producing online advertising networks

Twitter versus Facebook: Should you Choose One?

The phenomenon of social networking is still in its infancy and it remains to be seen exactly which network might become the 800-pound gorilla in the space. It is reminiscent of the dotcom 90s, when I worked in the search industry; dozens of venture-backed search firms battled for dominance and search appeared to become a commodity, with limited monetization potential, or so we all thought at the time.

There are now so many social networks vying for users that even the most elite “Digerati” have trouble keeping up with the ever-shifting landscape. And most are still struggling to find effective monetization strategies, casting doubt on their long term survival and pointing to massive consolidation at some point.

The Evolution of Social Networking Compared to Search

In the now-infamous dotcom era, Yahoo, Lycos, Excite and others evolved into portals in a desperate attempt to find ways to make money, since nobody had really found effective ways to monetize search. That was, until companies like Goto.com (which became Overture and was eventually bought by Yahoo) and Google invented the concept of paid search and contextual, pay-to-click advertising models. The rest is history and we all knew who won the war.

So it seems today that applications like Twitter and Facebook, while attracting new users at astounding rates have not fully defined their business models and the 800-pound gorilla has yet to emerge. It is still early in the game and, as with search in the mid 90s, the eventual winners in the social networking space may not even yet exist, but I would argue that Twitter and Facebook are emerging as potential contenders to dominate.

The differences between the two networks are substantial and in some ways a direct comparison between the two is actually difficult to make. Twitter is simple and feels like Google did in 1998, while Facebook offers a portal-like interface somewhat reminiscent of Yahoo.

Key Elements of Facebook and Twitter

Facebook appeals to people looking to reconnect with old friends and family members or find new friends online; the mashup of features like email, instant messaging, image and video sharing, etc. feels familiar, while Twitter is a bit harder to get your arms around at first.

Most people can very quickly grasp how to use Facebook to connect to friends and family, using it to share thoughts, images, etc. Like MySpace but more geared to adults than teens, Facebook is a social networking Portal; beckoning you not to leave but rather to stick around and communicate within the network.

Twitter on the other hand, encourages you grab ideals in byte-size chunks and use your updates as jumping off points to other places or just let others know what you’re up to at any given moment.

Why People Love Facebook

Facebook appeals to social animals and can be very addicting to people who have an insatiable appetite to stay connected with friends and make new acquaintances. In fact, some people report they rarely use email or IM tools anymore in their online social communications anymore, relying almost entirely on Facebook for email, chat, image and video sharing.

Facebook addicts prefer the social portal model versus having to log into AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Gmail, Hotmail, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, etc. Instead, Facebook gives them a single alternative to all these applications, with one login and interface to manage their online social interaction needs. This largely explains the explosive growth Facebook continues to experience and why the company reportedly invested $200 million in data center upgrades last year to keep up with demand!

Why People Love Twitter

The usefulness of Twitter is not readily as obvious to some people as Facebook; although it may be more addictive once you get the hang of Tweeting; you get more immediate responses and it seems to live somewhere between the worlds of email, instant messaging and blogging. Twitter encourages constant “linking out” to anywhere and, in that respect, is more analogous to a pure search engine; another way to find people and content all over the Net.

Twitter has quickly built brand awareness and a loyal following, especially among the technically adept; bloggers, online marketers, evangelists, basically anyone with something to promote seem to find Twitter extremely valuable.

When asked why they love Twitter, users say like “I can ask a question and get an instantaneous response”. They crave the ability to “tap into the collective consciousness” of others on the network, bouncing ideas off others with whom they would otherwise have no means of connecting. Twitter addicts claim it’s like the old fashioned water cooler, where people can gather to shoot the breeze on whatever topic is on their minds. Twitter is like a communications stream you dive into for an invigorating swim.

Different Communication Styles for Different Social Settings

Let’s say you go to a wedding or other social gathering where lots of people know each other. The style and tone of communication there will be more like using Facebook; you chat with old friends and acquaintances, mixing and mingling in an intimate manner. In this setting, people tend to feel more relaxed and “in their element”. Conversations are familiar and center on shared experiences and connections.

Now, when you go to a large party or social event where you don’t know most of the people in attendance, you will use a very different style of communication, more like Twitter; you want to meet people and somehow make yourself known, stand out from the crowd, make an impression, self promote and make new connections. Twitter is like getting the podium and not everyone feels comfortable or knows how to stand comfortably in the spotlight.

In fact, almost all of us, when first approaching Twitter, tend to use it to post useless updates like “Going to lunch”, thinking of it as a another tool to communicate with friends, when in fact, it is more like stepping on to a stage, where you are communicating with an audience and quickly find that you need to find a voice and say something useful and interesting or quickly lose the attention of your audience. People refer to Twitter as a mini or micro blogging platform.

So Which Social Network is the Best?

While zealots will immediately point to either Twitter or Facebook as being superior, the truth is that each has its advantages and disadvantages and will tend to appeal more to different types of people and for different reasons. Each can have great or little value to anyone; it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish in a given situation. Consider some of the pros and cons of each network:

Twitter Pros

  • Easy to navigate and update, link to and promote anything
  • Reach far beyond your inner circle of friends
  • One feed pools all users; anyone can follow anyone else unless blocked
  • Pure communication tool, rapid responsiveness
  • You don’t have to be logged in to get updates; you can just use an RSS reader
  • Very interactive, extensible messaging platform with open APIs
  • Many other applications being developed (Twitterific, Summize, Twhirl, etc.)
  • Potential SMS text messaging revenue from wireless networks (although Twitter states they are not currently getting any cut)
  • Potential future advertising and/or enterprise subscription-based revenue streams
  • With its “thin” overhead, Twitter is probably more scalable than Facebook, giving it a cost advantage

Twitter Cons

  • Limited functionality; find people, send brief messages, direct replies
  • Limited to 140 characters per update
  • Not all people find it immediately useful
  • Over-emphasis on follower counts
  • Easily abused for spam and increasing the noise level
  • Relatively smaller installed user base
  • As yet no readily apparent monetization strategy

Facebook Pros

  • Application mashup; find people, make connections, email, instant messaging, image/video sharing, etc.
  • Most people can quickly grasp the value of connecting with friends, family and established contacts; some people report they use Facebook instead of email and IM
  • More emphasis on deep connections with others vs. who has the most connections
  • “True Friends” feature increases your transparency to selected connections; almost like having private and public profiles
  • Huge, rapidly growing installed user base
  • Inherit stickiness, third party applications, “gift giving” and personal data collection make Facebook a powerful advertising platform

Facebook Cons

  • More difficult to navigate and update
  • Requires investment of time to realize sustained benefit
  • Opt in model requires a user to allow others to connect
  • Less immediate responses; unless you stay logged on continually
  • Overhead of mashup and “thick” applications could limit scalability, bloat cost structure

The Future of Social Networking

In the end, both Twitter and Facebook are simply communication tools; both will continue to evolve and morph as users find new ways to extract value and either network may or may become a long term winner in the rapidly evolving social networking space. Ultimately, the fact remains to be seen whether either application has a profitable, scalable and sustainable business model or whether the exit strategy is simply to be acquired.

As we learned in the search space, consolidation will eventually prevail. Unless they can find a way to turn all those eyeballs into profits, social networks will lose relevance. It does seem obvious that the venture capitalists are betting they will not only continue to enjoy tremendous growth but will also successfully monetize all that traffic.

But, will either Twitter or Facebook become the next Google or will they fade into the rear view mirror of technological and social evolution? What do you think?

Avatarbook - Facebook Meets Online Gaming.

For those of you who don’t know, the Sims Online is undergoing a revolution. Having been left standing for the last few years with little to no input, EA are at last re-shaping the game, and the world of multiplayer gaming as we know it. Sound like hyperbole? Perhaps, perhaps not; check out their latest addition to the online gaming experience: AvatarBook.

Facebook made flesh

So what is Avatarbook? Well, the clue is in the name. What is one of the largest social networking websites on the planet at the moment? That’s right -– Facebook. With over 58 million users, Facebook is the primary reason that many of us log on in the morning. But, as we all know, it has its limitations. As do online games.

One problem with online games is that they can be too divorced from reality -– you have your online friends, and your real-world friends, and the two remain firmly divided. Ditto Facebook -– your user-circle is limited by who you already know, and it’s hard to get to know people outside of that circle on a one-to-one basis without sharing all your private data or being introduced by a friend of a friend.

All that is set to change, with a new application that could change our networking community forever. When Linden Labs made Linden Dollars (the currency of the hugely popular game Second Life) exchangeable for real-world currency, they opened up the world of online gaming by bringing it into the real world. Now EA want to do the same thing, by allowing users of the Sims Online to link their Avatars' accounts to their Facebook profiles.


Sharing Information

Avatarbook has two faces -- the in-game version and the Facebook version. In-game you can use it much like Facebook, in that you can find other Avatars and view their limited profiles. For friends the full profiles are visible, with walls for people to write on and updatable status. Your profile will also show if your lot is open or not, and the application an be used to quickly make your way around EA Land as you jump from friend to friend.

In Facebook, the application shows your Avatar's details (unless you have chosen a private setting) and picture, and whether or not you are logged on to the game. This is a useful way for players to find out who is online without having to log in themselves. You can also invite other users of Facebook who are not already Sims Online players to download the application and see your Avatar profile -- a move that EA hopes will attract more people to the game.

For the time being, then, the bulk of information that can be shared is Avatar-related. Their skills, properties and friends can all be viewed, and their Wall. The identity of the real-life person behind the Avatar is kept private, at least for now.

Privacy

Privacy is a major issue as far as EA are concerned, so at the moment Avatarbook is fairly limited in how much information can be shared. In the Sims game you can add people to your friends list, which will provide them with a link to your Facebook profile rather than making a direct link, though that is set to change as the application grows. Also, nobody in EA Land (the Sims Online world where the application will be available) will have access to your real name - you will be searchable only by your Avatar's name. EA have stated that they intend to allow players to lower their privacy settings so that more information can be shared, but at the moment they're playing it safe.

The Future

This application obviously shows great potential, and it is something that EA are going to continue to develop as they gain feedback from users. The Sims Online game is going through a revolution at the moment, with their free trial set to become permanent free play in the very near future (with limited gameplay for non-payers, much like in Second Life). For years now Second Life has been leading the pack in terms of innovation and social interactivity, but if EA keeps this up then we could be looking at a new contender for the crown. After all, they did come up with the two most popular games of all time (Sims and Sims 2), so some would say that this is less of a surprise than a belated homecoming. Certainly one to watch, at any rate.

“Facebook: $750 Mil in Hand Worth More than $2Bil in Sky”

It came up conversationally, but I believe I’m the only person at my company to have firsthand experience as a user of Facebook.com.  It was kind of funny to have all these online advertising professionals asking me all about the website everybody used in college.  Didn’t they get the memo?  I’m new.  I should be asking the questions around here.  The subject of Facebook.com is an interesting one that’s worth a closer look.

Without question 2005 was the year of MySpace.  Before Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million social networking venture took the interactive world by storm, it’s difficult to believe that even the most optimistic of the billionaire’s lackeys would have predicted that new acquisition would more than quadruple its reach within a matter of months.  With 23.5 billion page views by February, MySpace became the second most trafficked site on the Internet. 

Murdoch’s success naturally generated buying interest in anything deemed online social networking.  One proposed deal in March 2006, was Viacom’s unsuccessful $750 million bid for Facebook.com, the phenomenon started by wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg.  After Facebook.com declined the offer, its founders pegged Facebook.com’s worth at two billion dollars.  Perhaps the brilliant sparks from MySpace’s success has blinded Facebook.com to the flipside reality of Friendster’s paradise lost.  There’s a real chance Facebook won’t see an offer this generous again. 

Facebook.com is essentially an online medium of communication for college students and high schoolers.  For its valued reach Zuckerberg and his crew of Harvard dropouts (taking their cue from Bill Gates, no doubt) must be looking for Google-sized compensation, but the two billion dollar figure is arbitrary and difficult to justify.  Perhaps Facebook is emboldened by their own wise decision in not selling to Yahoo for $15 million in 2004. 

Zuckerberg was likely trying to establish a market value for his creation, not an unwise move on the face of things.  However, Viacom’s offer was not by any stretch of the imagination pocket change and the number of entities that can and will double the bid Facebook already got is finite.  

Facebook’s traffic numbers, as referenced on Alexa.com, during the last three months are not encouraging; that is, if the goal is to fish for more and greater buyout bids.  The numbers actually have trended downward since March, anathema for enticing hyper bidding growth.  These diminishing statistics can be at least partially attributed to the cyclical nature of the school year since Facebook, after all, is geared towards the college student.  It doesn’t matter how great the product is, it won’t keep students from doing their own thing during summer vacation and this yearly dip is potentially damaging. 

Seeing as how fast online fads can expand and contract in social networking as we’ve seen in its short time span, what if the numbers don’t come back?  What if something new pops up in two months that steals Facebook’s thunder?  (And, again, MySpace’s success serves as good reason why this thunder is worth stealing.) 

Facebook.com’s success has also been marred with some controversy that could taint its popularity with students.  At Syracuse University a flap over freedom of expression ensued when a Facebook.com group went overboard in critiquing a student teacher and ended up with expulsions from the class and social suspension before three students transferred.  After Penn State’s football team beat Ohio State this year students rushed the field and made a ruckus.  Overwhelmed police made only two arrests that day, but later in the week they logged onto Facebook.com and, like Canadian Mounties who always get their man, got plenty of names and faces and photos from the info posted by students about their on-field shenanigans.  Kids talk and these stories spread like wildfire, which may affect Facebook.com negatively – they can’t control misuse of their product and the negative repercussions that come from it.  

The future is promising for the social networking business space and I don’t believe Facebook.com is doomed.  Still, given the nature of short-lived and over-hyped dotcoms, Facebook may have reached their growth climax this school year, with possibility for expansion and success only contingent on acquisition.  Time may not be on their side because as the pages of the calendar turn there will doubtlessly be new fads and trends that will threaten to make something else the “Next Big Thing” at Facebook.com’s expense.   The clock is ticking.

8 Steps To Facebook Adventure

Once a social platform for college students, the 40 million active membership site facebook is the latest buzzword in social media marketing. However, most members are extremely online savvy and they smell blatant advertisements from miles away. It is important to know some basics and gain experiences in utilizing the site and interacting with its members before you start planning your facebook marketing adventure.

1. Create a profile. The first step is to create a profile. Sign up using your real name and upload some pictures. If you do not have an email with a top-level edu domain, by default you join a regional network based on your zip code or international address. Later, you have the option to join your company's network and change your regional networks. You can change your networks twice in a 60-day period.

Always upload a profile picture. If you don't upload a picture, facebook places a default question mark icon. It is a good strategy to show your face in facebook. Don't use group pictures for your profile because others may have difficulty identifying you in the group pictures. Don't use logos, your cute cat or dogs’ pictures, or a picture of your expensive car and boat.

You don't have to fill all the profile information. Fill only the information you are comfortable sharing with others. If you want to find dates using facebook, fill up the relationship status feature of your profile accordingly. Don't change the status often because others will notice it and doubt your trustworthiness.

2. Make friends. The site can find active facebook friends for you using emails in your address books of a few free web email providers like yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc. Once you get a few friends, new friend requests will pour in from your friends of friends. You can also search for friends and send requests. Work on creating a network of 100 to 200 friends. Don't make friends with celebrities because in most cases these are fake profiles setup for marketing purposes.

3. Upload pictures and videos. Start uploading some interesting pictures and group them in albums of travel pictures, baby shower photos, bachelor party scenes, etc. Pictures help people connect with your life without meeting you face to face. Always upload a number of related pictures or themes.

Create a random albums and put all your random pictures in the random album. Tag your pictures to identify people on the pictures. When you tag your friends in your pictures, they show up in their wall. You can also share your albums with others outside facebook. You can upload personal videos using your browser or mobile phone and directly record videos to facebook.

4. Use friends' walls and never post on your own wall. You have a wall in facebook for others to write notes. Don't write in your own wall. Write in your friends' walls. Your friends will write notes, share videos or links in your wall. You do the same in your friends' walls. When a friend posts something on your wall, reply to the post. If you find the posting annoying, politely ask them to back off and clean up your wall.

5. Join a few groups. There are all sorts of organic groups in facebook. These are groups of people with similar interests. Find a few that interest you and join them. You can create your own group but first find out if one exists on the same topic. This is an excellent place to be creative and get support from a bunch of people for your cause.

6. Create events and invite people. If you want to host a party, this is the feature you will use. Create your events and invite others to join. You can make an event public for your friends to see or private for the invitees to browse. Under my event, you can browse your friends' public events. You will immediately know who are your fake friends because they did not invite you to their gala dinner they are hosting.

7. Send notes and share links. You send notes to your friends. Depending on the topic, you can send a note to a few friends or to all friends in your network. Don't send chain letter notes because people find these repulsive. Your notes show up in your friends' news feeds or on their walls. A tagged note shows up on the wall, otherwise, it is found in the homepage news feed. Use share for sharing links, even though you can use this feature for sharing notes. Share that link of a cheap travel-booking site you have found while surfing the net with friends planning their upcoming vacations.

8. Visit your homepage everyday. Besides your profile page in facebook, you also have a homepage. You homepage displays collaborative news feeds of all your friends, event and group invitations, friendship requests, friends' birthdays, etc. If you want to know what is going on in your facebook friend circle, visit your homepage everyday.

The other features of facebook are poke, marketplace, facebook mobile, and hundreds of applications that enhance the facebook experience. As the facebook awareness grows, online marketers have started pounding the facebook door to gain a foothold. Future articles will discuss different ways to market your products and services to facebook members without insulting their intelligence.

Why Facebook Is Worth Over $10 Billion

Yahoo! have been in talks with Facebook for over a year now and apparently recently got shy at Facebook’s $1 billion asking price but as I will explain here Yahoo! have missed out on an absolute bargain.

Facebook have 18 million users, plenty. However MySpace has 100 million + and sold for a mere $580 million to News Corp’s in 2005. YouTube sold to Google for a reported $1.65 billion in 2006 but it serves over 100 million video’s a day and has over 25 million visitors a month. So what makes Facebook so valuable? It gets relatively huge traffic levels but not on par with YouTube or MySpace. Despite now being available to anyone it began life as an exclusive network for students (you needed an educational email to register) and this is still its primary user group.

So where’s the money?

Currently Facebook displays conventional banner advertising on users’ homepages and selected pages through the site. Adverts are unobtrusive and random in so much as they’re not targeted at any particular user- they’re just served to the entire site on a random basis. Facebook are doing ok out of this arrangement on the basis of the number of page impressions they receive, although in reality they’re keeping advertising at a minimum in order to build up the value of the site for its eventual sale which will almost certainly happen in 2007/8. Smart guys!

The power of information

Register with Facebook and quickly you can find yourself giving away huge volumes of valuable personal information. Think about it… Facebook know your name, they know how old you are (actually your D.O.B which is infinitely more valuable as I’ll go on to explain), they know if you’re male or female, they know your hometown, your postcode if you choose to give it away (although I doubt many users choose this), they know if you’re single, in a relationship (and who with), married, divorced etc, they know your sexual orientation. Ok so you can answer all these questions as honestly, dishonestly or vaguely as you like but from what I’ve seen people happily give accurate information about themselves as it’s their friends and potential friends who are going to see it- and no one else right?

But what else do Facebook know? Well they know where you went to school, where you work, more sinisterly your religious and political views. From this we can start to build up a pretty valuable market profile. As I’m telling Facebook I may as well tell you I’m Male, 22 (born in August), Straight, in a relationship, conservative, atheist from Brighton, England. Went to school at Blatchington Mill Secondary, college at a place called BHASVIC, University at Bournemouth. From this information we can draw further assumptions- I live in Brighton and based on the location of my schools catchment area we could pretty accurately map places in Brighton I know about, visit, and live in (think Google maps API). I’m a straight; conservative from a reasonably wealthy area in full time employment therefore I’m probably white, middle class with a decent disposable income.

So what else? Facebook know what you look like, they probably know what you used to look like a few years ago as well. Probably most significantly they know who your friends are, they know how you know them, they know when you talk to them, what they look like and ultimately they know exactly the same information about them as they know about you- you’re interests, likes and dislikes and your friends tastes as well.

They know your email address, so they know if you use Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail etc. They know your phone number so they could pretty easily work out your phone provider. They have your IP address so they could work out your ISP. They know where you’ve arrived at the site from so they know what search engine you use (enter Yahoo! And Google to the bidding war), what browser you’re on, they know if you’re visually impaired or have learning disabilities from the settings on your browser.

Facebook know when I’m logging in and from where so they know the hours I work, if I’m using the internet at work, the pages I leave Facebook to go to or the pages I come from so they know what other sites I look at. I can set my current status and tell Facebook exactly what I’m doing or feeling right this second.

Ok so you get the picture by now, one last thing though, is your Facebook password the same as your email account password, your internet and telephone banking password, every other password you use in your daily life (because until I wrote this post mine was!) how much more information do you want to give away?

What’s the risk here?

Realistically it’s pretty slim. Facebook are a nice bunch of guys and a great site, I love using it and despite knowing what I know about information security and the like I choose to give away a big chunk of the information I’ve talked about here.

Yahoo! And Facebook

So if Yahoo!, Google or god forbid Microsoft successfully purchase Facebook (as I say I’m reasonably confident this will happen this year) the Orwellian lucid dream proposed by this post becomes a perpetual nightmare. Imagine a company who have made billions and dominated the fastest growing market in the world by developing algorithms which crawl hundreds of millions of pages of random information (the internet) and categorize that information with the ultimate goal of matching it to businesses and selling advertising.

The search algorithm let loose on Facebook

Imagine the search engines let loose on Facebook. An algorithm tuned to pick out profile information (John, born 13.08.84). Map it to keywords in personal interests i.e. football, Manchester United. Plot your location on a map i.e. Brighton, England. Follow links to your closest friends with similar interests i.e. Bob and Dave who live round the corner and serve me an advert something like:

Happy birthday for next week John.

Did you know its Dave’s birthday the week after?

Why not book tickets for Brighton and Hove Albion vs. Manchester united on 12.08.07

Click here to book now and get 3 tickets for the price of 2 (why not ask bob to come along- he supports Brighton and you haven’t spoken in a while).

Book today and we’ll give you a half price limo from your house to the game with trashy-limo’s.com.

Now that’s powerful advertising and it’s just around the corner. If Facebook has 25 million registered users by the time it’s sold, half of whom visit every day that’s a minimum 12.5 million page impressions a day. Serve the advert above at $1 a click (which is far less than its worth based on the current AdWords CPC model) expect a click through rate of up to 10% based on the precise nature of the advertising and that’s $1.2 million minimum a day- almost $½ a billion a year. Grow that user group to 50 million (realistic if Google or Yahoo! can tap into their existing user database) and sell ad space on an affiliate basis say the football tickets at $300 with a 10% affiliate kickback and a 10% conversion rate =$3 per user x 25 million users =$75 million a day or $2737500000 in year 1! OK lets not get carried away people aren’t going to spend $300 every other day but the logics there and so the cash.

Will the audience except it?

Better quality advertising means less advertising- less websites rammed with banners so you can’t find what you’re looking for, less popups, less low quality products. This is the main driving force behind the success of search marketing programs and profile based advertising is already in place with Google’s personalized search returning more targeted AdWords ads than previously possible. If it falls into the hands of Microsoft then people may be more wary but with the image of Google or Yahoo! and Facebook profile information is seen as soft information as the company doesn’t sell you products directly and he service is free. It’s the way the internet is going and I believe it’s where we’ll be in 5 years.

Identity theft

The point I’ve been making tediously through this post is that we should be more careful about what information we give up and to whom. If the internet was a county it would be Nazi Germany and Facebook would be the Gestapo! Social utilities like Facebook are afforded the sort of privileged information fascist governments the world over would and have killed for. We moan about identity cards being introduced in the UK (ironically there’s several Facebook groups dedicated to the cause) but we happily give up personal details to a bunch of college geeks in the states who are ultimately planning on selling our details to the highest bidder (the value of any site is based on the volume, quality and amount of information they have about their traffic- but best of luck to them) possibly to the company who already control the majority of world business systems through the windows platform.

This post is not meant to scare- it’s simply a recognition of the power of new internet technologies, their possibly applications and to pose the question- if your Facebook friends are your real friends shouldn’t they know your birthday? Are Facebook really going to buy you a present?!

Facebook info

Facebook is a social networking utility that connects people together based on networks. Networks can be based on a wide variety of things and based on the information you provide in your user profile when you sign up for Facebook, you can connect to a wide variety of networks and meet a number of people that are similar to you. Many people have used Facebook in order to meet a lot of great people and if you are interested in using the internet to meet people then Facebook might be the website you’re looking for.
Considering the small bit of history mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it should come as no surprise that the founder of Facebook was a student at Harvard University. A man by the name of Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook and ran it for a very long time as a hobby project during his time at University.
There are many different ways that a person can get security but the one that has specifically been created to meet the demand for security is what is known as a Facebook proxy.
Now that facebook has become so popular, two of the three initial creators have dropped out of university and dedicated themselves full time to improving and maintaining Face book layouts and all of its facilities. Today the Facebook website is used by people from thousands of University campuses across the English speaking world and is also enjoyed by a number of different companies and religious groups as well.
In terms of total users,
Facebook has approximately 18,000,000. This number places it amongst the top social networking websites in the world; not bad for a website that was started as a hobby project by a Harvard student. This 18,000,000 number is reputed to contain multiple accounts; in other words there is an assertion out there that there are not actually 18,000,000 people using the Facebook service but that many people have more than one account on it.
To end on a high note in this game of statistics, here is something that you might find very shocking. According to web traffic numbers and taking into account the 30 billion page views Facebook gets on a monthly basis, it is now the 7th most visited site within the United States.

Eight Billion Reasons Yahoo Didn't Buy Facebook

For much of the year, Facebook had been in negotiation to sell itself to Yahoo. The market value of the "instant behemoth" social service sites has fluctuated, as services both large and small have changed hands this year. The first big acquisition was Newscorp's purchase of MySpace for $580 million in 2005. That set a benchmark, which was driven upward somewhat by the NBC Universal purchase of women's online network iVillage for $600 million earlier this year.

Social networking sites typically allow users to create and share blogs, pictures and videos with friends and the wider public. What makes Facebook different from MySpace? Its founder(s) set out to create a social networking site that is designed for post-high school users. It connects people by region, college, company and high school.

Build a personal profile and connect with others that are sharing your life experience as opposed to your social, entertainment and artistic interests, which are the focal points in MySpace. Facebook attempted to blend a little maturity into the energized chaos found on MySpace, and they have been successful. Their current membership is somewhere north of ten million - compared to the 145 million that MySpace claims.

The MySpace inclusion of 'artist pages' allows artists working in audio and video mediums to freely distribute media from within a social network. It has become a central feature of the network. Artist pages exist alongside individual profiles, and in addition to the regular profile features they allow the artists to upload media and distribute it in the network. Individuals can link to artist pages, endorse media, and participate as fans. This feature resulted in bands using the site to promote their music, one of the dynamics of the site that has made it so successful.

Facebook's orientation around actual communities makes it much more efficient as a connectivity tool. You can connect to anyone within your group and you can search for people across the entire Facebook spectrum. Specific interest areas are much more easily brought into focus and it is easier to build a group around them. The big question for Facebook is its relevance past the college years. The question for MySpace will be its ability to undergo a little maturation in the form of advertising and control of commercial video and music posting.

In the marketplace Facebook has had several suitors on its dance card, having held negotiations with both Microsoft and Viacom over the past year. Microsoft has in fact signed a deal with Facebook whereby Microsoft will sell and provide banner ads and sponsored links for Facebook using its adCenter online advertising software. Some medial analysts dismiss this deal as minor, citing banner adds as passé and sponsored posts as an advertising method that is showing some age as well.

In the Google corner, the company has announced a deal with MySpace to pay at least $900 million in shared advertising revenue and become the site's sole search provider. As part of the deal, Fox Interactive Media will add Google search boxes to MySpace and its other web sites. Google has first crack at selling any display ads Fox doesn't sell directly. Google has shown an ability to work partnership agreements and a willingness to settle for a piece of the action that has served them well in the feinting and blocking that occurs in the Internet consolidation ring.

Google's purchase of YouTube ratcheted up the pressure on Yahoo to close the deal.  It's worth noting that Google bought YouTube with Google stock - a choice that was not open to Yahoo in their Facebook negotiations. Earlier this summer Yahoo decided that Facebook was too expensive at $1 billion and in July, came close to closing an agreement at the $800 million figure. The reported high offer of just over 1.6 billion was rejected, and now Facebook claims it isn't for sale, but if it was, it's worth at least 8 billion. 

From a financial/cultural perspective, Yahoo had a lot on the line with this acquisition because it would have significantly reshaped the portal's efforts to establish and hold a Yahoo "community." In one Yahoo corner or another, many of the features contained in both MySpace and FaceBook can be found already as Yahoo proprietary components. What is missing is the packaging and the social cachet that both social networking services hold for young people.

Yahoo has built a strategy of drawing Internet users and advertising through building community-based services on the Web, but acquisitions so far have been on a small scale. Recently Yahoo has acquired Bix, MyBlogLog and Kenet Works. Bix and MyBlogLog are built along social networking lines, and will work (hopefully) as a complement to Yahoo's current properties: Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming and WebJay. All of these have slightly different orientations: FLickr is photo-centric, Delicious is a blog tagging and sharing service and Bix is a digital karaoke and entertainment site that takes amateur uploads.

While the Yahoo / Facebook deal appears to be dead, the evolution of social networking sites is bringing several characteristics to light. There is some indication that user loyalty is a slippery issue. MySpace users are migrating to Facebook, YouTube and other sites as their primary "hookup." Average visitation time on the site has dropped by over half.

On the other hand, Media metrics firm Hitwise has released its Media Report which found that MySpace is still atop the social networking mountain, with 82 percent of visits to the top 20 social networking sites landing on their site. Whatever the figure, Yahoo's attempted purchase of Facebook would have been an expensive bet on a hot product that could cool as quickly as Friendster and others that have preceded it. Finding an advertising model that works for the Facebook is also going to be a challenge, particularly given the existing Microsoft deal to handle some ad placement for the service. Given the turbulence in the social network marketplace, the inability to close the deal may end up being a positive for Yahoo.

Present your Facebook profile uniquely

Few days back facebook released the new facebook profile layout which is completely different from the old one. One feature was very much new was Photostream which showed your recently tagged photos under your profile name below the new bio.

Someone discovered to use tagged photos in photostream creatively to design the new facebooklayout hack. See this example:-.

The above image is a demonstration of the effect that can be achieved with tools below which will allow you to easily turn any image into what you see!

How to use Facebook profile image trick

1. PicCut is an useful online tool that allows you to upload large picture and it will automatically slice up the image according to the size requirements of the facebook new profile photo image trick

An useful addition to this tool is it lets you select the no. of lines in your profile bio. If your profile bio is 1-2 lined then the alignment of the photostream thumbnails is non proper making it look mis-aligned.

2. PicScatter is a similar tool like PicCut you can use with the new Facebook profile to make amazing profile pictures, with an added advantage to directly upload the image and thumbnails to yourfacebook profile. This makes it easily to implement the facebook new profile photo hack to your profile

As soon as you’ve uploaded your image, you can zoom in and out, drag it around and tell it how many lines of bio (info-text) you have. This last option can help you see if it’d be better to add or remove a bio line to optimize the photo hack effect. When you’re finished, you can download the individual image files in a compressed archive (pic_scatter.zip) or publish them instantly to Facebook. (detailed guide on ampercent)

Using above two websites create Facebook profile photo hack

Step 1: Upload your desired picture and let PicCut or PicScatter to generate the correctly sliced up profile image and 5 thumbnails.

Step 2: Download the generated ZIP file of your images, or manually save them.

Step 3: First, set the image named "profile-pic.jpg" as your Facebook profile picture.

Step 4: Create a new photo album, then upload the other images in the order of their filenames.

Step 5: Tag yourself in all 5 photos, starting with "image5.jpg" and ending with "image1.jpg."

Step 6: Hide any tagged photos you do not wish to display on your profile. That’s it!

also there are some other tools to creat this hack

# FBcrop (Link) is an online tool that duplicates the effect of the facebook profile hack in 3 easy steps. It gives a higher level of customizability compared to other methods currently available and works by directly uploading to your facebook account.

# Profile Banner App (Link) is a facebook app that let you use the new facebook profile image trick directly from facebook. They feature cool photos compatible with the facebook profile hack in different categories like the holidays etc. in case if you are out of ideas or photos.

Some more similar online tools for generation profile hack photos are MyPeex.com, ProfileGen.com,FullPagePic.

Hope you like using these tools. Here are some of the most awesome facebook profile image hack tricks implemented creatively below…(more here)

How to make Facebook gather the right information about your site


It often happens on Facebook that while sharing anything, Facebook picks up the outdated or may be previous information about that site. It also happens often that Facebook doesn’t even pick up certain information about any site. For example:-

While creating this article I got an idea that i will try to share the two url’s of this blog on Facebook that is www.bloggerzbible.blogspot.com and www.bloggerzbible.com and see what is the result. I was really amazed on seeing the result but was not surprised. See yourself.

When I shared the older address www.bloggerzbible.blogspot.com then Facebook shared the information which I earlier defined on my blog using meta tags.

older

But when I tried to share www.bloggerzbible.com it showed

newer

So as you can see the blog is the same but Facebook is sharing different descriptions.This can happen to you too. I’m not talking about only those who have blogger hosted blog’s but all the websites. Above was just an example.

What are the general problem’s while sharing
  • Facebook’s shares previous or outdated information.
  • Picks up wrong thumbnail from you site
  • Doesn’t pick up the description.
  • Picks up wrong title or previous title.
  • For video’s haring sites doesn’t pick the flash file.
What’s the solution

There is one solution to all these problem’s within facebook. Its a tool called URL Linter. This service updates every information about the site. Got to URL Linter and paste your URL for which you want the information to be updated. Click lint and the result will be in front of you.

To check whether the information is right just use the facebook general sharing url:-

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=URL THAT YOU WANT TO SHARE

And see the result. One thing I must suggest you that before using the above tool check what information is Facebook sharing using the above url afterwards use the URL LINTER. And also check whether you site has the necessary META TAGS (Basic tags) required for sharing content on Facebook.

Facebook Marketing: Why You Should Use Facebook

Internet marketing is essential in today's business world. With it, you will be able to reach out to more people, which means that you will be able to have a larger share of the market. Today, most people now uses different internet marketing tool in order to promote their products on the internet.

If you want to market your business or your products and services effectively, internet marketing is the answer. First of all, you don’t need to be an internet marketing expert in order to promote your products efficiently over the internet. What you just need is to know where to market it on the internet.

Try to think of a website that generates a lot of traffic and one that divides people according to their interests and hobbies. This way, you will be able to know where you should advertise your products and services and you will also be able to specifically target the people you want to sell your products to.

One website like this is a social networking website. Here, you will see that it will already have the traffic you need and most will contain the tools you need to efficiently advertise your products or services.

One such website is Facebook. Although a lot of people primarily use Facebook to socialize with their friends, you can also use this website as an effective internet marketing tool. It already has the numbers, where it already has more than 62 million active subscribers and is still growing.

When you join Facebook, you will see that you will be given your own profile page. Here, you will be able to tell people about yourself. Now, in order to advertise, try to start adding friends, preferably your own circle of friends or people that you already personally know. Once you build you own network of friends, it is now time for you to extend that network. Try joining groups that share your interest or groups that is interested in what you have to offer.

You can also try personalizing your profile page to make it unique which will attract people to view it. You might also want to post links to your website on your profile page or you can also syndicate your blog pages using RSS. These tools are already provided by Facebook, so you don’t really need to know about HTML programming or other complicated internet things.

Another reason why Facebook is a great place to market products and services is that Facebook encourages word of mouth advertising. If someone likes your profile page or the products or services you sold them, they may be able to recommend you to their network of friends and also their groups. This means that the people in Facebook will be the ones that will advertise for you.

These are the things that you need to remember about Facebook and just few of the many reason why you should try marketing your business here.

With Facebook, internet marketing is easier and a lot more fun. Remember these tips and you can be sure that you will be able to effectively market your business website as well as the products and services you are selling far more effectively than other forms of internet marketing.

Facebook has it all. It has traffic and the tools. All you need to do is use the tools provided in order for the traffic to come to you.

Why You Should Start Using Facebook Ads

The internet is the hottest place today to earn cash. If you are planning to start an online business, then you first need to know that although the internet will potentially generate a lot of cash for you, it doesn’t mean that you will be able to achieve success overnight. You still need to work hard even if it is an online business.

And, if you want to become successful with your new online business, you need to market it on the internet. You have to remember that if you have a new website, no one knows about it and if someone knows it exist, he or she wouldn’t care. You have to market your products by marketing your website. It's how it works in the internet.

It is also important to remember that marketing on the internet is different from marketing in the real world. In fact, even the most experienced marketers in the real world have hard time marketing in the internet. It is a new kind of marketing and it will require different strategies to make things sell.

There are free ways to market in the internet. However, these free ways can be a pain. Unless you are a really good writer, it is often very hard to catch people's attention in the internet. If you are just a beginner in the world of internet marketing, then you might want to try out Facebook. Here, marketing is easy, effective, and is very cheap.

Facebook is basically a social networking website where each member will build their own network of friends. Here, people will be able to communicate and have lots of fun with the different applications available. With over 60 million active subscribers and still continuing to grow, you will obviously see that Facebook is definitely the place to market your products or services.

You don’t have to worry about traffic as with the amount of people logging in and out each day, you know that you have your clients here. All you need to do is get them to your website.

After becoming a member at Facebook and building your own network of friends and also after completing your profile, the next step is to start using Facebook Ads to market your products or services.

Facebook Ads is basically a pay per click advertising tool offered by Facebook to its members and is used within the Facebook website. The great thing about Facebook Ads is that it will let you decide your target clients according to interests, age, gender and other general information. You will also be the one to decide the daily budget for the advertising.

This way, you will be able to try out your advertising without investing a lot of cash. If you are just beginning to advertise, don’t expect to get results right away. It's all a matter of trial and error. Besides, nobody's perfect. You have to find out what your target market wants in an advertising campaign or what will get their attention. With Facebook Ads, you will be able to do this.

So, if you are just starting out with your online business and you want to promote your products, services and your website in the internet, you might want to try marketing in Facebook Ads. Here, marketing is a lot more fun, cheaper and also very effective.

Why Marketing In Facebook Can Spell Success

Internet marketing is now considered to be part of any business. With internet marketing, you will be able to reach out to more people and you will also be able to expand your business without spending too much money.

However, internet marketing is a new breed of marketing. It is much more complicated than marketing in the real world and it will require you to work hard. You have to write articles related to the products or services you are selling and you will also need to know about search engine optimization. There are a lot more things that you need to learn when it comes to successful internet marketing.

If you want to become successful in internet marketing, you might want to consider marketing on social networking websites. Here, you will see that social networking websites are more than just social networking websites where you will make new friends and keep in touch with your old friends. If you know how internet marketing works, you will see that Facebook is the perfect place to do so.

You have to consider the fact that Facebook now has over 62 million active subscribers and tens of thousands more are joining each day. With traffic like this, you will see that this particular website is an internet marketer's gold mine.

This is why many internet marketers are now joining Facebook and is now actively marketing in it. If you want a piece of the action, you might want to join Facebook to and try marketing your products or services here.

Another great thing about Facebook is that it will already provide you with the tools you need to market effectively and efficiently. In Facebook, you will be able to join groups and add different kinds of applications that will serve as a great tool for marketing.

You have to remember that the tools and applications provider here is primarily designed for social networking or for communicating with other members of Facebook. However, if you are an internet marketing savvy, you will see that the applications and tools will serve as a great medium for advertising your products, services or your business website.

For example, by joining a group or groups with a particular interest about what you are selling, you will be able to get a lot of targeted traffic in to your website. Try interacting with the group and tell them about what you do.

If they know that you sell things that they are interested in, they will surely pay a lot of attention to you and will be willing to check out your official business website. Keep one thing in mind though. You have to remember that Facebook is still a social networking website. So, before you tell people to buy what you have to sell, try interacting with them first. Try to gain their trust and indirectly tell them about what you do.

The News Feed feature offered in Facebook is also a great way to market products or services. Here, your every move will be broadcasted to your network of friends.

As you can see, Facebook is one large market place that will give a lot of potential in marketing. So, the next time you are thinking about marketing your products or services in the internet, you might want to try marketing in Facebook.

Marketing on Facebook: Why Market On This Social Networking Site?

Are you looking for an effective way to market your products or services? If you are, then the answer to this kind of problem would be internet marketing. First of all, internet marketing is one of the best ways to advertise or market your website or your products or services. Through internet marketing, you will be able to reach out to more people, which mean that you will be able to have a lot more clients.

Whatever it is you are selling, you can be sure that internet marketing is a must in order to get ahead of your competitor and in order for your business to grow. However, although internet marketing may sound simple, it is actually very complicated. It will require you to write articles, join forums and you also need to know about search engine optimization in order for you to become successful at it.

However, internet marketing shouldn’t be so complicated. Thanks to social networking websites, internet marketing is a lot simpler to do than ever before. One social networking website is Facebook. Here, you will see that this website will be able to provide you with the traffic as well as the tools you need in order to market your products, services or business website effectively.

With millions of active subscribers, you can be sure that you will be able to find your target customers here. You will see that Facebook will contain a lot of people in different backgrounds, age groups and it will also contain people with different interests.

So, whatever you are selling, Facebook will readily provide you with potential clients. All you need to do is to get them to visit your website or at least your Facebook profile page.

Facebook is such a great place to market products and services because of the amount of people logging in and out in a daily basis. Also, it is the fastest growing social networking websites today. In fact, it is estimated that the number of members in Facebook will grow to about 115 percent every year. Currently, Facebook is now a host to more than 62 million members.

For experienced internet marketers, Facebook is definitely a gold mine.

Another reason why internet marketing on Facebook is a must is that it will be able to provide you with the tools or applications you need in order to market your products, services or business website effectively. Here, you will be able to upload photos, share videos, and even post on events.

The news feed feature offered in Facebook is also a popular social tool that can be used to market your products or services. Whatever you do in Facebook or whatever changes you make, it will be announced in the news feed for everyone in your network to see.

In Facebook, you can also join or even create your own group. Marketing wise, if you see a group or groups that have an interest in what you have to offer or sell, you might want to join this kind of group. Here, you will be able to get the traffic you need for your website and will increase your chances of selling what you have to offer.

These are some of the many reasons why you need to market in Facebook. With all these things, you will see that internet marketing will be a breeze.

Facebook Marketing: What to Expect Inside Facebook

In the past, Facebook was just a college photo and profile sharing tool that was only available for college students with a .edu email. However, because of its popularity, Facebook is now a worldwide social networking website that is made available to anyone who has a valid email address. This means that wherever you are and whichever school you go to, you will be able to join this very large social networking website as long as you have a valid email address.

The latest news in Facebook is it now launched its Spanish translation version of Facebook. This means that more people will be able to join Facebook, particularly Latin-speaking countries. You have to consider the fact that over 60 percent of Facebook users are outside the United States and most people joining Facebook lives in countries where English is not the primary language.

Thanks to the Spanish version of Facebook, more people will be able to join this very large social networking website. With more people, it will mean more potential consumers. If you are an internet marketer or you own a small business, you may want to try Facebook as a website that you should market on. With over 64 million users, you will see that Facebook is indeed a market that is hard to pass up.

In Facebook, you will see that it will already have the numbers. What this means is that it already has the traffic you need. You don’t actually need to generate more traffic as Facebook is now considered to be self sufficient. With millions of people logging in and out every single day and tens of thousands more are subscribing, you can be sure that you will be able to get the traffic you need to market your products and services effectively.

Facebook will also be able to provide the marketing tools you need to effectively market your products or services. It has blogs, applications, and it will also allow you to create groups. With these tools, you will be able to attract targeted traffic to your profile page and get them to visit your business website.

With the tools in Facebook, you can be sure that you will be able to get the right kind of traffic from it and direct them to your website.

To start, you may want to create a complete profile. Then, try adding some applications and add some photos and videos in your profile page. You have to remember that you need to make your profile page interesting in order to attract people.

You also need to build a network of friends. If you already have friends that you know who uses Facebook, try adding them and try to browse their network. Also, you may want to try joining groups with a specific interest. For example, if you have a business that sells pet products, you may want to join groups that are into pets.

If you have a blog website that discusses a specific topic or topic that is related to the products or services you are selling, you may want to syndicate it on Facebook using RSS. This will enable other members to read your blogs.

These are the things that you need to remember about Facebook. As you can see, Facebook will be able to provide you with what you need in order to market effectively on the internet. It has the traffic and tools and all you need to do is use it.

Facebook Marketing: What to Expect Inside Facebook

In the past, Facebook was just a college photo and profile sharing tool that was only available for college students with a .edu email. However, because of its popularity, Facebook is now a worldwide social networking website that is made available to anyone who has a valid email address. This means that wherever you are and whichever school you go to, you will be able to join this very large social networking website as long as you have a valid email address.

The latest news in Facebook is it now launched its Spanish translation version of Facebook. This means that more people will be able to join Facebook, particularly Latin-speaking countries. You have to consider the fact that over 60 percent of Facebook users are outside the United States and most people joining Facebook lives in countries where English is not the primary language.

Thanks to the Spanish version of Facebook, more people will be able to join this very large social networking website. With more people, it will mean more potential consumers. If you are an internet marketer or you own a small business, you may want to try Facebook as a website that you should market on. With over 64 million users, you will see that Facebook is indeed a market that is hard to pass up.

In Facebook, you will see that it will already have the numbers. What this means is that it already has the traffic you need. You don’t actually need to generate more traffic as Facebook is now considered to be self sufficient. With millions of people logging in and out every single day and tens of thousands more are subscribing, you can be sure that you will be able to get the traffic you need to market your products and services effectively.

Facebook will also be able to provide the marketing tools you need to effectively market your products or services. It has blogs, applications, and it will also allow you to create groups. With these tools, you will be able to attract targeted traffic to your profile page and get them to visit your business website.

With the tools in Facebook, you can be sure that you will be able to get the right kind of traffic from it and direct them to your website.

To start, you may want to create a complete profile. Then, try adding some applications and add some photos and videos in your profile page. You have to remember that you need to make your profile page interesting in order to attract people.

You also need to build a network of friends. If you already have friends that you know who uses Facebook, try adding them and try to browse their network. Also, you may want to try joining groups with a specific interest. For example, if you have a business that sells pet products, you may want to join groups that are into pets.

If you have a blog website that discusses a specific topic or topic that is related to the products or services you are selling, you may want to syndicate it on Facebook using RSS. This will enable other members to read your blogs.

These are the things that you need to remember about Facebook. As you can see, Facebook will be able to provide you with what you need in order to market effectively on the internet. It has the traffic and tools and all you need to do is use it.

Using Facebook to Generate Targeted Traffic to Your Website

As an affiliate marketer or as a person who owns an online business, you have to remember that internet marketing is very important. You first need to be successful in internet marketing in order for you to get customers. You have to remember that if you want customers, you need to get targeted traffic in to your website.

There are quite a lot of methods to get targeted traffic. You can try writing articles about the products or services you are selling and posting them on article publishing websites. This is a great way to market your website as well as the products or services you are selling, but what if you don’t have the knack for writing? What if you have people skills instead?

If talking to people is your forte, you might want to join social networking websites. One social networking website that is so popular is Facebook. Here, you will see that there are now over 62 million people who are actively subscribed and millions of people are logging in and out every single day.

With this amount of people, you have to consider that this is truly an internet marketer's dream.

By joining Facebook, you will be able to create a profile page for yourself. Complete the profile page. In this page, it will state basically everything about you. It will contain your interests, your age, gender, as well as your political views.

If you already have friends who are registered and actively using Facebook, you might want to try to add them to your network in the website. You can also invite your other friends to join through email in Facebook. By building your network of friends, you will be able to gain access to other networks in Facebook. Here, you can start communicating with other people, and even build new relationships or make new friends.

This is a great way to start marketing in Facebook. Don’t just jump in and start peddling your products, services or website, you first need to establish yourself in Facebook.

After getting started and getting familiarized with Facebook, you will notice that you will be able to join groups. Find a group that is interested in the products or services you offer. When you find one, join the group.

Here, you will be able to discuss things about their interest and little by little, you will be able to indirectly market your products or services. Just remember that you first need to establish relationships within the group in order for you to market effectively and in order for you to become trusted by the other members.

There are quite a lot of communicating tools that you can use in Facebook. You can use the News Feed and you can even syndicate your blog website using RSS. The Notes feature offered by Facebook is also a great way to market. And, you can also write on the "wall" of other people's profile in order for you to get known.

The great thing about this is that you don’t even have to invest money when you use Facebook. It is completely free and what you just need to invest is time. Although it may take quite a while for you to get people in Facebook to trust you and get them to visit your website.

You have to consider the fact that with the amount of people using Facebook, it will definitely have a lot of potential in generating targeted traffic to your website.

Using Facebook as an Online Marketing Tool

Social networking websites are becoming more and more popular each day. Websites like these are primarily used as a social utility that will enable people to connect with other people. With Facebook, you will be able to connect with friends, acquaintances, and with other people who you study and live with.

One social networking website that is very popular among many people today is Facebook. With Facebook, you will be able to get your very own profile page where you can upload an unlimited amount of photos, share videos, and also a place where you will let people viewing a little about you.

Although this is a great social networking site that will enable you to keep in touch with your friends and acquaintances as well as meet new people and make new friends, it is also a website that made a lot of internet marketers drool.

With over 62 million active subscribers and still continuing to grow, you know that this place is the place to market.

If you own a business and you are reaching for an 18 to 25 demographic to sell your products, you will see that Facebook will be able to provide you with your target customers. Most subscribers here are aged between 18 and 25, which is called the "tech-savvy youth audiences".

With Facebook, you will not only target your ads on specific regions and universities, but you will also be able to get your fair share of audience. Here, you will see that when you join, you will be able to readily use tools that can really help you advertise your products and services.

You can customize your profile in order to make it unique and attract your target audience and you can also post blogs and even syndicate your blog page using RSS. If you have video ads about your products or services, you can post it here on Facebook as well.

When you register with Facebook, you can also add friends. Try adding as much as you can and establish some relationship. If you already know someone who uses Facebook, add them and try to get them to promote the products or services you offer.

This is one great feature of Facebook. With it, you will be able to get people who are connected to your network to advertise for you. This way, you will see that you will be able to market your product more effectively by getting people in other network know about your products or services.

Another great tool that you can use in Facebook is the ability to let you add applications in your profile page. Here, you will be able to add games and other applications in your profile page, which can be great in attracting other people to visit your profile page.

As you can see, Facebook will be able to create a great potential in internet marketing. The website already has the numbers in terms of traffic, and it also has the tools necessary for you to market your products or services effectively.

It is just a matter of knowing how to use these tools and also know how to effectively market your products or services. By creating a great profile page in Facebook, you can be sure that you will be able to attract a lot of targeted traffic.

Tools That Facebook Provide To Let You Market Effectively

Today, one of the hottest trends in the internet is by joining social networking websites. Here, you will be able to keep in touch with your friends, and you can also meet new people as well as make friends with them. Another great feature of social networking websites is that you will be able to create blogs and get people to know you even when you are not online through your profile page.

One great social networking websites today is Facebook. Here, you will be able to create your very own profile. You will be able to state what your hobbies or interests are, describe yourself, and you can even add your photos and start a photo album that everyone in Facebook can view.

Facebook is now one of the largest growing social networking websites today. With over 62 million subscribers and is continuing to grow every single day, you will be able to see that people do indeed use this particular website to keep in touch with their friends that they already personally known and also make new friends from other networks in Facebook.

Millions of Facebook users log in and log out of the website every single day. With this kind of traffic, you know that this particular website will serve more than just a website for social networking.

If you market your products or services on the internet, internet traffic like this will seem like a gold mine.

So, if you own a business, you may want to try marketing your products, services or your official website in Facebook. Why?

It's pretty obvious why you should market in Facebook. The first reason is that you already have the traffic. With millions of people logging in and out every single day, you have to consider that this website will have a lot of potential in letting you get a lot of customers.

Another reason is the communication tools that are readily provided by Facebook. Primarily used for communicating with your network and your group or groups, the tools here can also serve as tools for internet marketing.

The first tool that you can use is the Groups tool. Try joining a group that is interested in what you have to sell. Then, try interacting with the group and after the group becomes well-acquainted with you, you can indirectly tell them that you are selling the things that they are interested in.

The News Feed is also another great tool that you can use in Facebook to market your profile page as well as your website. In the News Feed, it will be able to announce whatever it is you are doing to your network of friends.

You can also try advertising in Facebook Ads. Although it might cost you some cash to advertise in Facebook Ads, you will see that it is quite affordable and it can definitely attract the attention of your network.

These are the reasons why you should advertise in Facebook and some of the many available tools that you can use to market your products, services or your business website.

Through Facebook, you will see that internet marketing has never been easier before. Here, you will get the traffic you want and you will also get the tools you need to effectively market your business.

Facebook Marketing: Tips for Success

Nowadays, there are tons of social networking websites available in the internet. Here, you will be able to keep in touch with your friends, find long lost relatives, and even make new friends. However, social networking isn't just what you can get from Facebook.

Because of its popularity, a lot of people are now taking advantage of Facebook as a website that they can use to market their business or their products and services.

There are quite a lot of social networking websites that you can join today. However, if you really want to join one of the best sites for marketing your products or services or really generate targeted traffic for your website, then Facebook is your best possible choice.

Facebook is considered by a lot of people as the best place to go to when it comes to marketing and networking. With over 62 million active subscribers, you will see that it will definitely have the potential in increasing your sales.

The great thing about Facebook is that it will be able to provide you with tools that can be used to effectively market your products and services. However, you need to know how to effectively use the tools in order for you to really fully take advantage of the website.

So, here are some tips that can help you use Facebook to market your products and services for free.

The first tip is that you need to make a great profile. With a great profile, you will be able to attract more people to view it. More viewers will mean more people will be able to know about the products or service you are offering. Try to use Facebook as part of your branding and try to include a photo of you. Also, include your contact information, your website address, work experience, personal interest and your education. Always remember that a complete profile is the best way to go in Facebook.

When you are already a member of Facebook, try adding friends. You have to remember that Facebook is a social networking website where you will need to make friends and build relationships. The more relationships you build in Facebook, the more effective your marketing efforts will be. The great thing about Facebook is that you will be able to see friends of your friends. By building an extensive network of friends, you will be able to boost your marketing efforts in no time at all.

You can also join groups or create your own group. In Facebook, there are different kinds of groups that you can join. You can try joining groups that have the similar interest such as yours. Or, you can try joining groups for coaches, wealth building and marketing experts. By joining or creating your own group in Facebook, you will be able to make hundreds of contacts that can help you in letting your business grow.

You may also want to syndicate your blog using RSS. In Facebook, it is possible for you to place your blog in your profile through RSS. With this feature, you will be able to let people read your blogs and boost your marketing efforts. With increased number of readers, you will get more leads which also mean more business.

These are just some of the things that you can do in Facebook to effectively market your website or your business. Through these tips, you will see that you will be able to increase traffic and get more businesses.

Facebook Marketing: The Tools To Reach Out To More Clients

First of all, Facebook is a social networking website that was primarily designed for use for Ivy League college students. However, because of the interactive tools that it can offer, it is now widely available for many people from different parts of the world. Whichever college or school you go to and wherever you are, you will now be able to join Facebook.

With Facebook, you will now be able to keep in touch with your friends as well as make new friends. However, the best thing about Facebook is probably its tools that you can use to market your business. Facebook is now one of the most popular websites today. With over 62 million active members from all over the world and still growing, you will see that this website is now somewhat of a large community.

You will see different people here from all walks of life.

With this figures, you will see that it will have the potential in providing you a way to market your products or services. It has tons of traffic and a lot of potential in providing your website with more targeted traffic.

You may ask why Facebook became one of the best places to market on the internet. Basically, Facebook is different from other social networking websites. Unlike other social networking websites, you will see that Facebook will be able to offer you different kinds of useful applications or tools that you can use to market your products or services. The applications on Facebook will let you market your products or services far more effectively than the available tools in most social networking websites.

By adding applications in your Facebook page, such as games, groups, and quizzes, you will be able to get people to view your Facebook page and help you market your products or services. The best thing about the application is that it is free.

Facebook is definitely a great place in the internet to market in. With the ability to drive targeted traffic to your website, you can be sure that you will be able to have lots of fun marketing your products. You have to consider the fact that Facebook is about networking. If a particular person in your friends list loved your products, they will most likely tell their friends in their Facebook friends list about the product and encourage them to purchase from you.

This is how Facebook marketing basically works. You'll be surprised as to how many people will be quite interested in what you have to offer. You have to remember that targeted traffic is the key to internet marketing. If you are marketing your products or services in Facebook, you can be sure that you will be able to get a lot of targeted traffic in your business website.

So, the next time you plan on marketing on the internet, you might want to join Facebook. It's free, it's easy, and it's a lot of fun. With Facebook, you will really have great time marketing and also profit from it at the same time.

With Facebook, internet marketing is easier and a lot cheaper than ever before. Remember these things and you will be able to see how much potential Facebook will be able to provide your business with.