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If you really want to make money with CPA then you need to listen to Imran Naseem
Apr 7th
There are a lot of CPA marketing courses out there but this one seriously kicks butt. And I’ve done a deal with the author to offer it to Netodex members at a MASSIVE discount…
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You’ve probably tested many methods of making money on the Internet. And maybe you have bought endless courses and lots of products only to find them rotting away on your hard drive.
But for all that effort…
Are you making consistent amounts of money on a monthly basis? Even during a bad month do you still come out with hundreds of dollars a month?
Well, now you can! Read the rest of this entry »
This is the power of a ‘VIRAL’ app.
Jan 27th
Coming up with a truely viral app will significantly reduce the amount of time and money you have to put into promoting it. The big challenge is coming up with something thats really viral.
It never ceases to amaze me just what works and what doesn’t and the fact that there’s no guarantees. Quite often what works is very surprising indeed.
Just a few days ago we launched a slot machines application. I use the term “launched” very loosely because what I actually did was stick up a working demo, do a few wall posts and mentioned in in four or five groups (just wall posts in groups – the groups did not belong to me). I then left it because I wanted to get the new free application written, tested and launched.
So how do you think the slot machine app is performing considering its had virtually no promotion at all?
Take a look at this screen shot of the stats from facebook taken this evening…
Adding a ‘Become a fan’ button to a FBML Facebook app.
Jan 21st
I’ve had a few emails asking about how to get the ‘Become a fan’ button in a FBML app. It is something that had me a little puzzled initially as there is no FMBL tag or FBJS command to do it easily.
It is not a problem adding the button if your application is an ‘Iframe’ app but I use Facebooks mark-up language quite extensively.
Thankfully the solution is actually very easy. Here is the code:
How to put Google Adsense ads into your Facebook App.
Dec 28th
A question I get asked frequently is “How can you monetize with Google Adsense ads in a Facebook application?”
Anyone who has tried will find it is not as easy as it sounds. This is because Facebook plays about with Javascript code as it serves your pages up. This is a security thing on their part, but it also means that a lot of standard Javascript does not function as you’d expect.
But there is a fairly easy work-around…
Fortune Cookie App for Facebook
Dec 10th
We are releasing our Fortune Cookie app today. This is a similar structure to the How and when will I die application although the flow of use drives people directly to the invite page after they have published their Fortune to their wall.
We have found this flow not only encourages more invites (but without forcing people which would be against Facebook policy), but the ads on the invite page seem to have a higher click through rate which means more money for you.
Fortune Cookie app for Facebook
You can try a demo of the app by using the link below.
Learn to use PHP in two hours… guaranteed!
Nov 13th
I spent almost five years living in the USA before returning to the UK. While I was there I came across a guy by the name of Steve Humprey. He is a programmer but he has this uncanny ability to be able to explain how to write and change code so that anyone can understand it.
If you are building monetized sites or you want to do your own Facebook apps then learning PHP is a very sensible step.
But it looks so complicated doesn’t it?
It doesn’t have to be. This is not B.S. and I highly recommend it…
Learn to use PHP in two hours.
The new Facebook streams explained and simplified (using php).
Oct 28th
As we reported a few days ago the way that Facebook feed stories work is changing to a new system. The new system can be used right away, but the old system will be depreciated (in other words it will stop working) on 20th December 2009.
If you have looked into the new system of feed stories on Facebook it may have left you a little bemused. The example code they give is a little confusing and doesn’t quite work ‘as-is’.
After much experimenting, hitting my head against the proverbial wall and wading through page loads of posts on the developer forum from people who clearly were having similar problems, I came up with some code that works.
Let us look at this example first which requests extended permissions and then posts a feed to a users wall. Extended permissions is the new feature where your application has to ask the user to grant permission to access or post to their wall, send them email, have offline access, send them email, etc.
The good news is that buried deep in the explanations on the Facebook developer site it turns out that there is still a way to simply pop up a request to post a feed to the users wall without the extended permissions but it is not accessible directly from the php library. However I will show you that code in a moment.
If you haven’t already you will need to download the latest facebook php libraries. As always these are downloadable from
http://svn.facebook.com/svnroot/platform/clients/packages/facebook-platform.tar.gz
Here is my modified version of the code which I have turned into a demo that asks you for extended permissions and then posts a sample feed to your wall. You will notice that I only ask for ‘publish stream’ permission since it is all my application needs. I would strongly recommend that you only ask for what is necessary as users are already going to be a little wary of granting permissions so the fewer you ask for the more likely the user is going to accept.
Here is the code: (there is a downloadable zip file with all the code samples at the end of this article).
Not all web hosts are equal when it comes to social applications.
Oct 28th
When it comes to finding a suitable web host to run social network applications it is well worth carefully reading the terms of service for your chosen host before signing up.
I run a number of Facebook applications including a games that fall into the mafia/adventure game category. These are commonly called RPG’s (role playing games) or MMORPG’s (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). But if I was to host with some of the popular or well known web hosts I could find myself in breach of their terms.
For example if we look at the terms of service for popular choice ‘HostGator’…
Terms of service from Hostgator.
Now the chances are while your application is new and not getting that much traffic you would probably get away with running an rpg game app, but imagine how inconvienient it will be and how much ad revenue you could lose if your host suddenly pulled the plug.
So when you are shopping around for a good web host be sure to read their terms of service VERY CAREFULLY and ensure that there is not going to be a problem running the kind of apps and sites you need to run.
For those who are interested, the host I now use (after a lot of research and trialing a lot of hosts who turned out to not be any good) is Valcato Hosting. They consistantly score highly on the independant review sites and their support is top notch. They also give unlimited databases and have full cron job support. They have a package that costs just £3 a month and is ideal for anyone starting out with social applications and it can be upgraded easily if you end up with a run away success application that needs hordes of bandwidth.
