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Can you post affiliate links on FB?

by CAmarketing
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What I mean is, when you create and pay for an ad, are you allowed to post an affiliate link that goes directly to a sales page, or do you HAVE to send them to a squeeze page or website.

Anyone have any luck sending directly to a sales page?
#affiliate #links #post
  • Profile picture of the author jamescanz
    Of course you can.

    It tends to be that conversions are much lower on Facebook because it's cold traffic ( if your audience isn't properly targeted, of course)

    Capturing email addresses and then sending them to offers works well too.

    I recommend doing both!
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeffery Moss
      Originally Posted by jamescanz View Post

      Of course you can.

      It tends to be that conversions are much lower on Facebook because it's cold traffic.

      Capturing email addresses and then sending them to offers works well too.

      I recommend doing both!
      I have been wondering about this question for myself as to whether or not straight hoplinks were allowable in Facebook ads. But, as you say, with cold traffic, (such as sending someone to an affiliate site straight off an ad), the conversion rate will be extremely low or not as good as if you send to a squeeze page and get them to sign up for follow up emails.
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      • Profile picture of the author sociafly
        You can post affiliate links, but as others are saying; Conversion tends to be poor. I do not have a whole lot of practical experience to back this up, but on the tests we have done, we got much better conversion through a landing page tailored to visitors coming through FB ads, than to send them directly to the affiliate link.
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  • Profile picture of the author areoo
    Sorry to hijack this thread but maybe it might help out the OP and many others,
    its been going around that dating offers and FB ads are dead,
    is this true, Should i even begin to try doing such ?
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    • Profile picture of the author iluvatoq
      Originally Posted by areoo View Post

      Sorry to hijack this thread but maybe it might help out the OP and many others,
      its been going around that dating offers and FB ads are dead,
      is this true, Should i even begin to try doing such ?
      I would suggest POF
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    • Profile picture of the author sarah23
      Originally Posted by areoo View Post

      Sorry to hijack this thread but maybe it might help out the OP and many others,
      its been going around that dating offers and FB ads are dead,
      is this true, Should i even begin to try doing such ?
      Hi,
      Dating ads are not dead
      but dating ads are not accepted by face book at this time.
      I think they are still woking on a policy for dating ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    Agreed with James!

    Capture that user information, build a list, warm up your traffic to see optimal results. I'm huge on free marketing methods; builds trust, pronto. Or at least more quickly than through paid methods where you're playing a numbers game with cold leads.

    All the best!
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  • Profile picture of the author globalexperts
    Originally Posted by CAmarketing View Post

    What I mean is, when you create and pay for an ad, are you allowed to post an affiliate link that goes directly to a sales page, or do you HAVE to send them to a squeeze page or website.

    Anyone have any luck sending directly to a sales page?
    Facebook doesn't allow the use of affiliate links. You would need to send them to a landing page first. Anyway, it's always best to send them to a landing page and capture their email first before sending them to your affiliate link right?
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    • Profile picture of the author jamescanz
      Originally Posted by globalexperts View Post

      Facebook doesn't allow the use of affiliate links
      This is incorrect, and if you've been marketing on Fb it would be quite obvious to see that millions of aff links are posted daily on fb...

      If you don't know the answer to a question, then please don't try and take a "shot in the dark" at the answer.
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  • Profile picture of the author sarah23
    @OP
    Yes you can use affiliate links on face book but makre don't spam around.
    I do personally use my affiliate links on face book and so far, i never had any problem.
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