I read this post over at FinchSells, What not to do on Facebook.
I do things the complete opposite as him and have varied results. Read his post, actually, read his whole blog.
Do you Like Facebook? Another change in ads
Facebook has been doing updates and improvements for a long time. Their system is never stable. The newest ‘feature’ introduced is the ‘Like’ button.
Now happy ad clickers can ‘Like’ an ad. I for one think this is a neat idea, but it wont change anything. There is no dislike button, so we cannot be “penalized” and if we are rewarded by ‘Like’ing our ads it wont be by much. Users are stupid, they will like anything with a pretty picture.
Take a look at what the update brings:
What sort of bothers me, is that they made it show the ‘Like’ button on the Ad board. I don’t see the point of it, and some less then admirable affiliate marketer could abuse it more easily.
Edit : I didn’t see the X, so there is still a “dislike” button. I am pretty stupid, so if I don’t see it my main target audience might not.
Facebook and Bing in Search Results
I don’t know how long it has been like this, but apparently Bing results show up in Facebook searches.
It shows up on the right hand side in place of FB ads
Also under all of the search results.
This could be a good thing for Bing, and organic SEO bitches.
Facebook for Dummies
A lot of people ask questions about Facebook advertising (and by questions I mean complain). Justin Dupre has some very good posts on the subject. A lot is changing in the Facebook advertising world. My words of advice:
- Bid low at first, you may get less impressions but if you have good CTR it will help. Lowering your bid fails hardcore
- Target! Pick a good demographic and get right into it. If you want to run dating, go right down to states and personalize it
- Don’t run rebills on good accounts (ie high credit limit) apparently they can tell (my main account is shit now)
- Try something new, I’m getting bored of seeing dating ads.
But really, read these questions answered by Justin it will help if you’re new.
Facebook Lite – The Twitter Killer
It seems facebook has a new beta, Facebook Lite. It seems to be a stripped down version of facebook that will directly compete against twitter.
Will it work? I don’t know, I’ll use both.
Also, Facebook just bought FriendFeed.
Case Study: Split Test POF LP
So, I got to thinking about online dating (who doesn’t do it) and decided to do a little case study.
I’m going to split test my plenty of fish profile to see what little wording changes effect conversion rates.
I am not going to link to my page, but I will post results when I get this beast rolling. Also, by conversion I mean message leading to date, and by date I mean sex.
Facebook cloaking script
If anyone wants a cloaking script that will work (mostly) against manual reviewers let me know.
Don’t want to post it on here because there is a small IP list, and some whois information that facebook *could change. Best just to send the file.
Holler youngin.
Proxy with SSH Tunnels – View Demos, Watch Porn
How to look up different Geo locations for ads and stuff using SSH as a proxy, or just surf porn at work.
OSX
1)
Open terminal and run this
ssh -D 2001 user@host.com
-D opens a socks proxy on port 2001
user@host.com should be your user and remote host you want to proxy through (See end for free sources)
2)
Next, go into Firefox (screw safari)
Click on Firefox menu, select Preferences, change to Advanced tab, click Network and go to Settings button
Go Manual proxy settings
Under SOCKS Host: put :
Now go to http://myipaddress.com and note the IP is different.
Keep the Shell open as long as you want to browse on that ip.
When you are done, put the settings back to no proxy.
Windows
1)
Download putty http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
2)
First add the host name (IP) of your remote server
3)
Next go to Connection > SSH >Tunnels and enter source port 2001 and select Dynamic.
And click Add
Remember to click Add. D2001 will show up in the box.
4)
Click open and login
5)
Next set up Firefox
Click on Tools > Options and make sure you are on the Advanced tab
Select settings
6)
Enter the Socks host and port like below
Click OK and go to http://myipaddress.com and see if it worked.
There you go.
This can also be used for secure remote surfing on wifi hotspots and such.
Free Shell accounts
Google it you will find some. There are some listed here
bylur.net – Free shell accounts
Free Shell Accounts
You can also use VPS servers.
I use this a lot for secure connections on other networks.
There are other ways to proxy, but this seems to be the easiest free solution I can think off.
Major failure in fail town
So, blog has been offline. Wonder why? Hardware failure.
Raid 1 (mirror) failed after a power outage, its raid 1 though so all should be good. Not. I remade the raid configuration in the controller and it still couldn’t see the operating system. I tried to recover data, no go, couldn’t mount any part of the drives in linux.
Moral of the story? Back shit up, Or you will end up looking like a retard like me. Don’t get me wrong, raid is necessary, but if you don’t know much about raid configuration and recovery in linux, don’t count on it to save your ass.
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