Gaming Facebook. This is on a whole new level

yeah this is great but i doubt it will last. everyones gonna have useless likes on their profile and probably stop using it. Especially if the site you have behind it is total trash.

but still this is good. Sorry i don't have time to read the whole OP but is their a code you can implement for existing websites? i noticed someone posted a Word press one.
 


ok i read everything so i kinda understand now. One question is when they login and like your website how does that give you their email address? are they automatically saved somewhere? Do you need a script made for their emails to be saved somewhere like a database?
 
I don't understand something. When someone clicks Like, it simply shows up in their newsfeed as "Eric likes PageTitle", and that concept alone is gona beat out top serps ranking? I must be misunderstanding the amazingness of this concept.

I get the idea of fanpages and fan boxes, those have been around for a long time, and I suppose making the user connect with facebook and join the group to view content is pretty awesome and could bring you slightly more traffic, but other than that I don't see whats so awesome about the legal possibilities here.
 
justin.helloall said:
facepalm, they ip banned me cause I pissed one of the admins off.
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Good luck with your new IP bro! You have to get an API key from Facebook to pull email addresses.

unrealalex said:
I don't understand something. When someone clicks Like, it simply shows up in their newsfeed as "Eric likes PageTitle", and that concept alone is gona beat out top serps ranking? I must be misunderstanding the amazingness of this concept.

I get the idea of fanpages and fan boxes, those have been around for a long time, and I suppose making the user connect with facebook and join the group to view content is pretty awesome and could bring you slightly more traffic, but other than that I don't see whats so awesome about the legal possibilities here.
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The idea is to add these new APIs to your LPs and entice the user by some sort of squeeze page to share their private Facebook data. This can include grabbing their email for repeated marketing. Publishing to their newsfeed with "LIKES" is just a little extra, not really a flood of traffic.

That's really it, the only problem is that once users start complaining about spam Facebook will put restrictions all over and revoke your API keys. Not to mention that forcing user actions to get access to content / features is against their TOS, for the most part.
 
I see. What about this FB Recommendations plugin and facepile ? That's just for social proof? I don't really get the significance of FB recommendations, it's just another way of displaying "popular pages"? I think apart from the private info and demographics now being easily available, the social proof thing is overblown, pretty interesting nonetheless.

edit: in fact I think Likes don't even appear on newsfeeds anymore; only on the persons profile page. the whole spreading virally thing is definitely overblown.
 
unrealalex said:
I see. What about this FB Recommendations plugin and facepile ? That's just for social proof? I don't really get the significance of FB recommendations, it's just another way of displaying "popular pages"? I think apart from the private info and demographics now being easily available, the social proof thing is overblown, pretty interesting nonetheless.

edit: in fact I think Likes don't even appear on newsfeeds anymore; only on the persons profile page. the whole spreading virally thing is definitely overblown.
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Exactly, for the most part this is just a big bag of hype. Grabbing personal data is the most promising thing, but I doubt it will last or even get off the ground.

Social proof is fine, but may be a little overrated vs. usual ways of getting it. These new features will be just another thing to split test.
 
I don't know how many of you own high traffic websites and have successfully pushed CPA offers on them, but I just never could make it work. I own 3x 20k unique visits/day websites and there is so much I can do with open graph. I can start targeting visitors by age, gender, and all other information that I would never know. Also I can get more traffic from the like button before seeing content. I would start buying assets with all those acai mooney
 
LOL, I was just going through my Gmail Spam folder and Zynga emails, captured using the same method, are already ending up there.

These lists will be as much quality as what you get from email submits... Good luck bros!
 
Well , I did put the like button on my site, and am already seeing people click the like button, however I'm really wanting to know how to connect with them. I put it on one of my music sites (As mentioned earlier) and have had 9 likes so far , yet I can't find ANY data on these people.
 
I'm testing with WP and I still don't have everything ironed out, for some reason I'm not receiving emails even though I've specified that permission.

But the rest of the data ( First name, Last name, Profile ID...and i think that's it) was in the WP DB under wp_users. There's a spot for emails, so I'm sure once I get it, that's where that data will be as well.
 
I was having some of the same problems - fyi you can't use all html tags in the mark up. If you use the ones they don't approve of you end up breaking crap.
 
I believe you have to prompt a user for email address using Facebook's API/widget.

Maybe that's why Zynga messages are going into spam, since prompt is confusing and users are not sure what they are opting for.

What I am interested in seeing is whether these "likes" are driving much traffic back from Facebook for a typical "SEO site" or wherever people put them. Facebook Page + Fanbox did not give me much traffic back over last few months, but I am sure upgraded APIs/widgets might do better.
 
Actually looks like I'm still having issues with WP and blocking content unless they are a fan. Nothing wrong with the code - and I'm not doing anything fancy.

Should work - but doesn't.

Guess I need some sleep and I'll look at it tomorrow.
 
So I'm messing with this on a test site I have coming up. I'm promoting a hot product.

My primary goal is for people to "Like" my site, so their friends come to it after seeing it on the feed. Their feed will say "Berto likes Product XYZ - Insane Benefit PDQ" where "Product XYZ - Insane Benefit PDQ" is the name of the page/application.

I guess my question/confusion is whether or not I should link to a Facebook Application or to a Facebook PAGE.

Guess I'm confused on the difference. Liking a page is simple for other users, but may lack functionality. Liking an Application brings up that spooky application acceptance page though.

I'm using Wordpress, and right now playing with Simple Facebook Connect as the plugin. It's solid no doubt
 
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